Curatorial, Content and Learning Director

English Heritage is the charity that cares for over 400 historic buildings, monuments and sites - from world-famous prehistoric sites to grand medieval castles, from Roman forts on the edges of the empire to a Cold War bunker. Through these, we bring the story of England to life for over 10 million people each year.

We seek to appoint a new Curatorial, Content and Learning Director to our Senior Leadership Team, reporting to the Chief Executive Nick Merriman, with a remit to increase our storytelling and narrative impact. This is a critical role for the organisation and essential to the delivery of our new strategic plan. This position holds responsibility for the creation and delivery of content strategy around key stories, drawn from the National Heritage Collection and England’s history at large, with the goals of widening our audiences and deepening our engagement and impact with them. This will be robustly underpinned by research and scholarship.

We are looking for a gifted people leader, strategic thinker and change deliverer who can steer the Curatorial, Content and Learning team, and instil confidence in executive colleagues, trustees, supporters, volunteers and other stakeholders. The team comprises around 120 colleagues across Curatorial teams; Interpretation and Content; Learning, Youth Participation and creative programming and Digital Storytelling and publishing.

As well as being an experienced leader of people and with a highly regarded scholarly and research track record, the successful candidate will appreciate the scale and complexity of English Heritage’s collections and historic properties across multiple sites.

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How to apply

For further details, including job description, person specification and information on how to apply, please visit https://candidates.perrettlaver.com/vacancies/ quoting reference 7618.

The closing date for applications is midnight (GMT) on Sunday 24th November 2024. 

Location: Flexible / hybrid with c. four days per month at Head Office in London. Regular travel is required to English Heritage sites, stores and offices, nationally.

Salary: £112,000 - £122,000 base.

Perrett Laver will conduct an executive search process in parallel with the public advertisement of the role. Longlisted candidates will be invited to interview with Perrett Laver in the week commencing 2nd and 9th December and the Selection Panel will subsequently meet to decide upon a final shortlist for the post in the week commencing 16th December, following which, interviews with English Heritage will take place in early January. The first interview will be on 16 January (TBC) and the second interview will be on 22 January (TBC). If you require any reasonable adjustments to assist you in the selection process, please advise us of these so we can make appropriate arrangements.

Everyone is welcome at English Heritage. We are always looking for people who reflect the diversity of the country today, to help us make it more relevant to the diversity of the people, communities and places we serve. From remote sites to inner city monuments, from regional teams to our Head Office, the diversity of our teams is critical to making sure our heritage is inclusive, exciting and accessible. We continually look for new ways to promote the past in a way that is inclusive to all and that celebrates the cultural diversity of England's heritage. By joining us, you will be part of a charity that is already on an exciting journey to tell everyone's story with an inclusive working atmosphere where everyone from all backgrounds, religions and with different needs will be supported. To support this work, we have a number of EDI networks that you can join as either a member or ally. These networks include Ethnic Diversity, Faith & Belief, Social Equity, LGBTQ+, Neurodivergence, Age, Disability and Gender Health and Wellbeing Issues.

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