Overview
Role Summary
Supporter Events Coordinator
Development
Full-time, 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break)
Permanent
£31,979 per annum/ pro rata
Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on Friday 5 September 2025
About the role:
The British Museum is embarking on one of the most significant cultural redevelopment projects undertaken anywhere in the world. The Masterplan will transform the Museum for the 21st century while staying open, maintaining the founding commitment to keep the collection safe and accessible to the public for generations to come.
The successful candidate will play a key part in the Development team by supporting the Membership and Supporter events programme, that will engage Members with the Museum and its work thereby increasing retention rates, under the guidance of the Supporter Events Manager.
Key areas of responsibility:
- Work with the Supporter Events Manager to design an appropriate annual event schedule, considering how best to engage Members during the year and alignment with the Museum’s programme of exhibitions
- Ensure events are planned and delivered to a set budget
- Work with the Supporter Engagement Manager and Coordinator to agree how events will be communicated to Members, including providing copy
- Liaise with speakers and contractors regarding promotional literature and publicity photography
- Event planning including preparing event briefs and risk assessments as appropriate Coordinating, developing, delivering and evaluating each event
If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, then we’d love to hear from you. A full job description is available below, this details the key dimensions of the role and the person specification.
About you:
- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent; English and Maths essential, educated to degree level is preferred
- Previous experience coordinating both large and small events that ideally would include experience of following relevant legislation and health and safety guidance
- Highly organised and creative, with excellent planning skills and strong understanding of event design, development, delivery and review
- Confident user of software packages such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Flexible, proactive and a good team player
About the British Museum:
Founded in 1753, the British Museum’s remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture. The Museum is a leading visitor attraction, and its world-famous collection includes the Rosetta Stone, Egyptian mummies, the Sutton-Hoo finds, and the Lewis Chessmen. The Museum also holds an extensive collection of prints and drawings spanning 600 years, including works by the greatest graphic artists such as Dürer, Michelangelo and Rembrandt.
You can view a selection of our impressive collection of prints and drawings in our virtual gallery.
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 (find out here what benefits a civil service pension provides).
- 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
Additional details:
For more information about this role, please see the job description.
The interviews are expected to take place on 18 September 2025.
If you have any additional needs that we should be aware of 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 staff 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 value the benefits that a diverse workforce brings to a museum which represents world culture. The Museum is committed to ensuring that no job applicant suffers unlawful discrimination because of any protected characteristics. Our recruitment procedures aim to ensure that individuals are treated because of their relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.
We specifically encourage applications from candidates from ethnic minority groups who are underrepresented within our senior roles.
We offer a flexible way of working scheme 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. We would typically see this role as working on site about 3 days a week.
The Museum also adheres to the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) for pre-employment screening of Civil Servants
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