HR Assistant, THE NATIONAL GALLERY 

Closing date: Wednesday 22nd March 2023, 11.45pm

Salary: £30,653 per annum

Hours: 35 hours per week - Hybrid Working (3 days per week onsite)

This is a unique and fantastic opportunity for an experienced HR Assistant to join the Human Resources Team at the National Gallery. Working with and supporting the Senior HR Advisor and HR Team this role will be responsible for providing an excellent level of customer service and support in a range of HR administrative activities including payroll, contracts, recruitment, training courses, meetings, and regular correspondence.

Responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for the production of paperwork for starters, movers, and leavers; this includes drafting contracts, letters and completing forms for payroll.
• Assisting the HR Manager with the maintenance of the HRIS to support the running of the monthly payroll.
• Responsible for assisting on selection and recruitment administration including carrying out vetting checks and onboarding of new starters.
• Management of the Gallery's HR inbox; first point of contact for all queries and dealing with these in a timely manner.

Knowledge, skills, and experience needed:

• Proven experience of working in an HR Administrative role.
• Ability to coordinate a variety of administrative tasks.
• Ability to provide excellent customer service in a front facing role.
• Ability to use English, written and spoken, to a high standard.
• Experience of using an HR database system effectively and efficiently.
• Ability to understand the impact of employment law on HR activities.
• Ability to coordinate a variety of administrative tasks.

Head of Business Change, THE ENGLISH HERITAGE TRUST 

English Heritage cares for over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places including Stonehenge, Dover Castle and the sites at Hadrian's Wall. It's a workplace like no other and we bring history to life for more than 10 million visitors each year.

The Head of Business Change reports to the Chief Financial Officer who manages all the central resources functions of the charity such as Finance, Procurement, IT, HR, Volunteering, Governance, Legal and Business Change.

Our Strategic Plan is transformational in helping us become a financially independent and an even more well-loved national charity, and the Business Change team is pivotal to the successful embedding of a portfolio of change initiatives underway across all parts of the charity. Through the management and deployment of people change methodologies, the business change team ensures that change projects (whether technology, strategic, EDI, sustainability, process or culture oriented) are successfully implemented and will lead to an improvement in workplace productivity and positivity.

This role could be based at any of our principal offices: Swindon, London, York or Bristol, or even home-based, with relatively frequent travel to our sites across the country.

We need someone who is a capable leader and who has a track record of managing a successful, inclusive and transformational change programme in a major and diverse organisation. With a solid understanding of how people adopt and adapt to change, knowing the best ways of overcoming barriers and bringing the workforce on the change journey will be second nature to the successful applicant.

This is a great opportunity to play a pivotal role in an organisation that is core to the national fabric.

We would be delighted to hear from you, if you would like to talk to us about this role before you apply, please contact Julie Swann via email, at Julie.Swann@english-heritage.org.uk.

Everyone is welcome at English Heritage and we are always looking for people who reflect the diversity of the country today, to help us make it more relevant to the diversity of the people, communities and places we serve. From remote sites to inner city monuments, from regional teams to our Head Office, the diversity of our teams is critical to making sure our heritage is inclusive, exciting and accessible.

We continually look for new ways to promote the past in a way that is inclusive to all and that celebrates the cultural diversity of England's heritage. By joining English Heritage, you will be part of a charity that is already on an exciting journey to tell everyone's story.

Historic Buildings & Maintenance Manager, GUNNERSBURY ESTATE (2026) CIC 

Our 185 acres of Grade II* listed parkland has been awarded Green Flag and London In Bloom Gold and holds an abundance of riches with wild flower meadows, heritage parkland, ornate lakes, interactive playgrounds for families and natural habitats for a huge range of species.

Gunnersbury Park & Museum launched onto London's cultural scene in 2018 as the destination in West London for music concerts, outdoor cinema and a host of other exciting events… but that's not even half our story.

We could also tell you about our rich history, our local history museum winning NPO status, the 21 listed buildings and structures within our park, our brand-new sports facilities, our education and community programmes and Putt in the Park - but we'd rather show you. Watch our highlights video here.

There's so much to be excited about at Gunnersbury and a real opportunity to help shape its future by joining our team!

Role description

As Historic Buildings & Maintenance Manager you'll be our historic buildings champion. You'll ensure that all our buildings and structures are conserved and maintained to the highest standards, working with external contractors, our Buildings Assistant and the wider Gunnersbury Team. We want Gunnersbury to be a safe and welcoming environment for all staff and visitors and you'll play a crucial role in delivering this. There is real variety to this role and an opportunity to work across all areas of the estate.

Collection Registrar – Maternity Cover, THE NATIONAL GALLERY 

The National Gallery is currently looking for a Collection Registrar. As Collection Registrar you will be one of two Registrars responsible for the overall project management and successful delivery of our busy rolling loans out programme to temporary exhibitions at UK and international venues. You may also manage some long loans for display with the NG Collection and temporary deposits for study, conservation or consideration for acquisition.

Your responsibilities will include loan negotiations with borrowers, lenders and owners; management and coordination of all registrarial procedures including control of operations involved with the safe transport and display of loans, management of suitable Government indemnity and commercial insurance cover and application of appropriate risk management principles in accordance with the Gallery's policies. 

Head of Museum Marketing, ART FUND 

We're looking for a talented marketer to take the lead for the next 12-months in developing and delivering a programme of strategic marketing activity designed to build awareness, develop relationships and pro-actively build marketing partnerships across a national network of museums, galleries and historic houses.

As someone who has either marketing experience from within the museum or gallery sector or substantial experience of B2B marketing, you'll be a skilled influencer and negotiator, able to create opportunities to advance Art Fund's goals and those of your marketing colleagues working in the 900+ venues across the UK who are part of our network. You'll have proven-experience in delivering results and an understanding of the importance of a consistent brand platform. Team management experience and a clear communicator, confident in presenting at scale, is essential.

Who are we?
Art Fund is the UK's national fundraising charity for art. We believe that art can make you see, think and feel differently, and through our work we help make art more accessible to as many visitors as possible, wherever they are. We give grants to help museums and galleries acquire works of art for their collections, share them with wide audiences, and support the training and professional development of curators. We are supported by our growing membership of 130,000 through the National Art Pass, as well as the generosity of many trusts, foundations and individuals.

Key Employee Benefits

• Generous Annual leave– 25 days annual leave and bank holidays, with additional non-contractual office closure dates at Christmas.
• Free National Art Pass (NAP)- for yourself and another person of your choice.
• Free Entry to Exhibitions
• Life Assurance- cover for up to three times your basic salary.
• Season Ticket Loan
• Pensions- Eligible employees are enrolled into the scheme with the exception of those who have contracts of three months or less. Art Fund contributes 8% of the basic annual salary during the first six months of employment or until probation is successfully completed, whichever is the later. At that point the contribution is increased to 10%.

This role is located at our King's Cross office (2 Granary Square, London N1C 4BH), but we offer hybrid working with a minimum of 2 days a week based in the office for full time employees.

Social and Content Executive, THE ENGLISH HERITAGE TRUST 

Are you excited about creating rich content that tells engaging stories? Informative and inspiring content and engaging social interactions are an essential part of how we inspire our visitors to visit, join and connect with us.

We have a vacancy in our Stonehenge marketing team for a Social & Content Campaign Executive. You will be a key member of the Visitor Marketing team with responsibility for the implementation of the marketing strategy through social and web channels to promote and drive visits to Stonehenge.

You'll provide engaging, creative content for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram ensuring all content meets core professional standards, is consistent and delivers on our brand promise to bring history to life.

In this highly collaborative role you will be working closely with the historic property team and the regional and national marketing teams. Working alongside Stonehenge marketing colleagues you'll also develop strong working relationships with experts and stakeholders throughout the business. You'll need to have a curious mind to search for the best content and be a good communicator, as well as having a real ability to understand the motivations of the audiences you are aiming to reach.

If you are a creative and motivated individual with excellent attention to detail, strong writing and communication skills (including good grammar) with experience of developing content for websites, then we want to hear from you!

Everyone is welcome at English Heritage and we are always looking for people who reflect the diversity of the country today, to help us make it more relevant to the diversity of the people, communities and places we serve. From remote sites to inner city monuments, from regional teams to our Head Office, the diversity of our teams is critical to making sure our heritage is inclusive, exciting and accessible.

We continually look for new ways to promote the past in a way that is inclusive to all and that celebrates the cultural diversity of England's heritage. By joining English Heritage, you will be part of a charity that is already on an exciting journey to tell everyone's story.

You'll find it's a workplace like no other - taking you behind the scenes of these extraordinary sites and supporting you to share your ideas, inspire others and make a difference.

By joining us, you'll enjoy the rewards of a great team environment in inspiring locations, helping to make our sites a wonderful place to visit. You'll also be joining our charity, which through our 400+ historic monuments, buildings and sites, brings the story of England to life for over 10 million visitors each year.

Economic Analyst - 6 Month Fixed Term Contract, HISTORIC ENGLAND 

We are seeking an Economic Analyst to join us in a specialist analytical role working formally with the Senior Economist to provide economic analysis and to conduct and manage economic research on behalf of Historic England and the wider heritage sector.

You will use your economic, analytical and administration skills to contribute to developing our approach to economic measurement of the historic environment, particularly in relation to evaluation. Your research and insight will be strongly guided by current government guidelines such as the Green Book and Magenta Book.

More generally you will help to make the case for the historic environment, through published advocacy-focused research, Heritage Counts and other appropriate routes. You will help to ensure that the Treasury, Cabinet Office, DCMS and other relevant Departments have relevant summaries of data and evidence delivered in ways that are most likely to bring about a more positive view of heritage.

What you will be doing:

As Economic Analyst you will support an exciting research package producing evidence about the economic value of the heritage sector. ·

In particular, you will support the Senior Economist with the development of new valuation techniques that better capture the total value of heritage including non-use values of heritage.

You will work closely with internal and external colleagues, particularly the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS) on the developing and pushing the boundaries of economic analysis.