Overview

As Exhibitions Project Manager at Wellcome Collection, you lead the delivery of complex and experimental exhibitions, artworks, and installations from concept to completion. You ensure high standards in design, production, installation, accessibility, and sustainability, while collaborating with curators, artists, designers, and colleagues across the museum. You assess project needs, allocate resources, and identify expertise to achieve objectives. This role offers the chance to shape engaging exhibition experiences within a renowned health-focused cultural institution.

Responsibilities

Manage delivery of complex exhibitions, projects, and commissioned artworks from concept through to delivery
Ensure design, production, installation, and interpretation are high quality, accessible, and environmentally sustainable
Collaborate with curators, registrars, artists, designers, and colleagues to develop engaging exhibition experiences
Evaluate project needs, manage resources, and identify required expertise to achieve objectives
Build strong relationships with project consultants, contractors, and stakeholders
Work with artists and curators to develop new commissions
Commission exhibition design and fabrication with a focus on accessibility and environmental responsibility
Promote a diverse and inclusive culture across the organisation by collaborating across departments

Key requirements

Significant experience managing planning, production, and installation of large-scale temporary exhibitions in a museum, gallery, or similar cultural setting
Proven ability to manage complex projects including budgets, schedules, resources, risks, and competing priorities
Experience working with artists to realise commissioned artworks
Experience of design commissioning; managing exhibition designers, contractors, fabricators, and technical suppliers
Understanding of conservation and care requirements of museum objects and artworks

Collaborative mindset
Relationship-building and stakeholder management
Cross-departmental collaboration
Project management
Budget and resource management
Risk management

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