Access and Equality Manager - The British Museum｜Meet.jobs

The British Museum’s Learning and National Partnerships department are seeking an Access and Equality Manager to manage and advise on the Museum’s access and equality provision for disabled visitors and staff, and to work with underrepresented groups on specified projects. As Access and Equality Manger you will act as an advocate for Access and Equality across the Museum and contribute to ensuring that the Museum is complying with the latest equality legislation for visitors and employees.

Key areas of responsibility:

• To provide advice and direction to gallery and exhibition planning in relation to physical, intellectual and sensory access.
• To offer advice and direction to other departments and sections across the Museum (Marketing, Interpretation, HR, Capital Planning and Programme Management, Visitor Services, Exhibitions, Volunteers and others) on all aspects of physical and intellectual access and equality for both visitors and staff.
• To be responsible for advising on and developing the Public Equality and Diversity Procedure to operate alongside the Human Resources Equality and Diversity Procedure.
• To work with HR to ensure the Museum has an effective Access and Equality Awareness staff training programme and provide Access and Equality Awareness staff training where required.
• To collaborate with existing partners in the provision of programmes and resources for specific groups (e.g. deaf people, people with visual impairments, people with learning difficulties, people with mental health problems).
• To assist Learning Programmes teams in building new partnerships and managing innovative learning projects for disabled and underrepresented groups as appropriate.
• To advise the marketing teams in promoting and publicising events to disabled audiences, encouraging currently under- represented groups to use the museum as a learning and leisure resource.

Person Specification:

The ideal candidate will be educated to degree level or have an equivalent HE qualification (or equivalent experience) and will have up to date knowledge of and practical experience in some aspect of work in access experience. The successful applicant will also have previous experience in events organisation and will have good public speaking and writing skills. Proven employment experience in a disability organisation, in education/training related to access or community/social services work involving people with disabilities is also required. Demonstrable time management skills and good negotiation and persuasion skills are also essential.

About the British Museum:

Founded in 1753, the British Museum’s remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture. With over 6.5 million visitors in 2014, the Museum is the top visitor attraction in the UK, and its world-famous collection includes the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, Egyptian mummies, the Admonitions Scroll, and the Amaravati sculptures.

The Museum is an equal opportunity employer, supports a diverse workplace and offers a competitive benefits package including:

• Membership of the civil service pension scheme
• Free entry to a wide range of museums and exhibitions
• Participate 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
• Generous annual leave allowance
• Interest-free season ticket loan
• Child care voucher scheme
• Professional & personal development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts on food and gift shop purchases