Community Liaison Assistant (Figureheads Project) - NMRN, Portsmouth

Community Liaison Assistant (Figureheads Project)

Salary (Grade 2): £9,684.48 per annum pro-rata (FTE salary £22,698)

Hours: 16 hours per week (work pattern to be agreed) – Fixed-term contract until 31 August 2025

Location: NMRN, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (with some travel to our Gosport sites) with the opportunity to adopt hybrid working (a combination of working onsite and from home)

Do you love learning about hidden and untold history and sharing interesting stories? • Do you have experience of working with or being part of diverse communities? • Do you enjoy inventing fun and creative activities to help others to have a go and learn something new? If so, then this is an exciting new opportunity for you!

The National Museum of the Royal Navy is recruiting to the new role of Community Liaison Assistant to join a project to help us tell the untold and sometimes difficult stories of our intriguing ships’ figureheads. Connecting the work of this project with diverse communities and the Royal Navy within Portsmouth, the UK, and the wider world, you will work as part of a team to develop community activity that will reveal this hidden history.

Key Opportunities

Working on and leading fun programming activities in the museum and in the community. 

• Working with striking ships’ figureheads which are works of art, in some cases several feet tall.

• Learning new museum collections management and research skills.

Knowledge/Experience

We are looking for someone who has experience of working or volunteering with diverse communities. Good at talking and writing to people and have an understanding of how to have conversations of a sometimes difficult and sensitive nature. Some experience of contributing to public events and/or community programmes and will enjoy learning new things and is willing to undertake relevant training.

We Provide

• The opportunity to be part of a friendly and diverse workplace within a unique heritage environment. • Group pension plan with Royal London (6% employer contributions, 2% employee contributions and death in service benefit). • Free onsite parking. • 25 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays), increasing to 30 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays) after 5 years’ service (pro-rata). • Occupational sick pay. • Enhanced maternity/adoption and paternity pay. • Flexible working. • Hybrid working. • Employee Assistance Programme. • Free admission to other national museums and attractions within the reciprocal agreement. • Discounts at our shops and cafes. • Free and discounted tickets for family and friends.

This post requires a DBS check as a requirement of working on the naval base, as well as the right to work in the UK.

For further details, or an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Jo Valentine, Community Producer joanna.valentine@nmrn.org.uk

Applicants are asked to apply via https://jobs.nmrn.org.uk/ no later than midnight, Sunday 26 November 2023. We will be conducting interviews in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, w/c 4 December 2023. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made to the application process because of a disability, please contact the HR team on recruitment@nmrn.org.uk for support.