Head of Visual Resources

What You’ll Be Doing

In this role, you’ll provide strategic leadership across Visual Resources and ensure high quality delivery of multimedia, digitisation and imaging services across the museum. You’ll lead the development and implementation of the Digital Futures Strategy, guide complex multiyear programmes, and advise senior colleagues on decisions that impact digital access and preservation. You’ll oversee budgets, manage procurement and external suppliers, and ensure that work is delivered efficiently, safely and in line with IWM standards.

Working closely with specialist managers and team leaders, you’ll build capability within the department, support professional development, and maintain the equipment and systems needed for high quality production. Day to day, you’ll be responsible for delivering museum wide services including marketing and event photography, collections photography, digitisation of still and time based media, and the creation of facsimiles where required.

You’ll also produce reports, KPIs and business cases, and help embed a culture of continuous improvement across the team.

• A degree in a relevant discipline.
• Experience managing cost, time and quality for a specialist, customer facing team, including contracts, fee paid staff and external partners (budgets typically around £250k).
• Experience managing and motivating a specialist team.
• Experience delivering best practice in digitisation or related access/preservation programmes.
• A Project or Programme Management qualification with evidence of practical use.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues to senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and creative problem solving skills.
• Demonstrable leadership skills, including strategic planning and managing managers.
• Experience using Collections Management Systems (e.g., Axiell) and integrated DAMS.

National Museum Directors' Council, National Museums Liverpool, World Museum, William Brown Street, Liverpool, L3 8EN