Job title: Senior Curator
Salary: Circa £40,270.00
Grade: Band 2
Contract type: TfL
Reference: 5866
Team: Curatorial
Contract details: Permanent
Location: London Transport Museum, Covent Garden / London Transport Museum Depot, Acton / Museum offices, Cranbourn Street / Hybrid
Occasional weekend working may be required to support Depot Open Days and other Museum events.
Application closing date: 21st October @ 23.59
Please Note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of applications; therefore, we encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.
All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK. At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period.Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.
Are you an experienced curator with a passion for collections, leadership and delivering impactful museum projects?
London Transport Museum is looking for a Senior Curator to play a leading role in shaping, developing and caring for one of the UK's most significant transport and social history collections.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a curator with strong collections expertise and people management experience to lead projects, develop and manage collections, and help ensure our collections remain accessible, relevant and engaging for future generations.
What you'll be doing
- Leading on collections management activity
- Managing and developing a team of four Curators and two Collections Assistants
- Delivering collections projects, including object installation/deinstallation
- Overseeing collections documentation, cataloguing and collections knowledge
- Supporting acquisitions, loans and collections access initiatives
- Ensuring high standards of collections care, storage and management
- Supporting content related projects, including exhibitions, galleries and web content
- Working with internal and external stakeholders to deliver funded projects and programmes
- Contributing to image licensing and commercial collection opportunities
What we're looking for
We're looking for someone with:
- Significant curatorial experience within a museum, gallery or heritage environment
- Strong collections management, documentation and cataloguing experience
- Experience leading projects from concept through to delivery
- Experience managing staff and developing high-performing teams
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery
- A passion for making collections accessible and meaningful to diverse audiences
Desirable experience
- Collections development and contemporary collecting
- Mixed media collections including vehicle, industrial, engineering or transport collections
- Collections care, conservation and storage management
- Lottery-funded or externally funded projects
- Image licensing and rights management
Why join us?
This is an opportunity to lead exciting collections work, manage talented teams and shape how one of London's most important collection’s is developed, cared for and shared with audiences.
If you have the curatorial expertise, leadership skills and passion to make a lasting impact, we'd love to hear from you.
Application Process
- Please apply using your CV only
- Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV
- PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images
Equality, diversity and inclusion
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve. We believe that a diverse workforce enables us to deliver better services and outcomes. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. As a Disability Confident Leader, we actively encourage applications from disabled people. As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we aim to offer an assessment or interview to candidates who apply via the scheme where the minimum essential criteria for skills, knowledge and experience has been met. In some circumstances, it may not be practical to offer an interview or assessment to every candidate who applies through the scheme and meet the minimum essential criteria; in these situations, we select candidates who best meet the minimum criteria for the job rather than interviewing all who meet them.
Across all recruitment activity, we recognise that selection methods may vary depending on the nature and scale of the campaign and will be applied fairly, consistently and proportionately in line with our Disability Confident commitments.
Benefits
In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below:
- Final salary pension scheme
- Free travel for you on the TfL network
- Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home
- 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
- TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
- Private healthcare discounted scheme Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
Retail, health, leisure and travel offers - Discounted Eurostar travel
We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.
Vetting Process
At Transport for London, safety, trust and fairness sit at the heart of how we recruit. Our Vetting Charter (https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/careers/our-vetting-process) explains the checks we carry out before you join us, helping ensure we create a safe, inclusive and reliable network for everyone who depends on our services. We simply ask that the information you provide is honest and accurate so we can progress your application smoothly. If something doesn’t match or can’t be verified, we may not be able to move forward with your application, but we’ll always treat you with transparency, respect, and clear communication throughout.