Vacancy for Head of Operations: Visitor Services and Security
Location: Bloomsbury
Role Summary
Head of Operations: Visitor Services and Security
Visitor and Security Services
Full-time, 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break)
Permanent
£75,185 per annum
Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on Wednesday 7 May 2025
We are seeking an exceptional professional to oversee all visitor services and security activities and provide strong leadership and culture change.
You will be responsible for developing a visitor experiences strategy to embed a visitor centric culture which delivers brilliant visitor experience, whilst keeping visitors, colleagues, the collection and building safe and secure.
You will be an inspirational, inclusive and collaborative leader with senior management experience in a similar role in a customer-facing industry, and the ability to successfully lead and motivate diverse teams. You will have achieved outstanding results and be able to demonstrate a resourceful and flexible approach when faced with obstacles.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead the visitor services and security teams to deliver excellent visitor experience, and a safe and secure provision.
* Maintain a clear understanding of the security threats to the Museum, liaising with the external security services as necessary in order to keep abreast of changing security threat levels and risks, and ensuring that the Museum's processes and procedures are adapted accordingly and regularly tested.
* Take responsibility for the communication of security issues across the Museum ensuring that colleagues at all levels are appropriately aware of changing circumstances and specific risks.
* Lead a programme of cultural change across the Museum with regard to visitor services and security.
The Museum offers a competitive benefits package including:
* Generous annual leave allowance of 25 days (rising to 30 days after 10 years’ service) plus 2.5 privilege days and plus bank holidays.
* Membership of the civil service defined benefit pension scheme.
* Free entry to a wide range of museums and exhibitions.
* Participation in private and public Museum activities, including talks by leading curators from around the world and behind-the-scenes opportunities to learn how museums care for and manage their extraordinary collections.
* Interest-free travel, bicycle, and rental deposit loans.
* Professional and personal development opportunities.
* Employee Assistance Programme.
* Discounts on food and gift shop purchases.
If you have any additional needs that we should be aware of in order to support you with your application, please provide details to bmrecruit@britishmuseum.org.
The British Museum is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all employees and job applicants. We aim to create a working environment in which all individuals can make best use of their skills, free from unlawful discrimination or harassment.
We offer a flexible way of working that allows our employees to work remotely in a way that suits them and the organisation. We welcome questions and conversations at interview stage about how flexible working could work for you.
The Museum adheres to the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) for pre-employment screening of Civil Servants.
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