CURRENT VACANCIES

Salary (Grade 5):  £26,250 – £30,000 per annum (dependent upon experience)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) – permanent

Location: Work across the National Museum of the Royal Navy based in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard with occasional travel to Gosport, Hartlepool and Belfast.

The NMRN’s vision is to be the world’s most inspiring Naval Museum. Its mission is to inspire enjoyment and engagement with the continuing history and modern role of the Royal Navy and the Royal Navy’s impact on shaping both our nation and the modern world.

The National Museum of the Royal Navy is the UK’s newest national Museum. We are recruiting two experienced Shipwrights within the expanding Conservation & Collections team based in Portsmouth. The successful candidates will be part of a friendly, multidisciplinary team of museum professionals, conservators and maritime industry specialists committed to high quality professional work maintaining and conserving historic ships, with a focus on HMS Victory.

This is an exciting time to join the NMRN, as we move into the next phase of a major Conservation Programme on HMS Victory, and this will occupy much of your time. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to be part of conserving the world’s oldest commissioned ship.

You will also spend time based on our other Portsmouth ships – HMS Warrior and HMS M.33 – with occasional travel to the Museum’s other locations in the UK, including Gosport, Hartlepool, and Belfast. Occasional weekend work may be required.

Overseen by Lead Shipwrights, your work will ensure that the NMRN’s Historic Ships are conserved and able to operate effectively and safely. The ships are open all year round as public attractions, so you will also be able to engage with our visitors about the important conservation work that you are undertaking.

Key Opportunities

• Opportunity to have a key role in the major Conservation Project on HMS Victory.
• Interesting and challenging heritage work with historic ships.
• Opportunity to be part of the team working on the conservation of our internationally important collection of historic ships.

Knowledge/Experience

• Specialist knowledge of construction of maritime joinery/shipwright practices, conservation and maintenance of historic ships.
• Qualified to Level 3 City & Guilds Boatbuilding (2463-03) or equivalent.
• Practical working knowledge of Health and Safety.
• As you will be removing planking from the hull of HMS Victory, this will be a physically demanding role which will require manual handling on a daily basis.
• A positive attitude and ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.

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).
• 25 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays), increasing to 30 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays) after 5 years’ service.
• Occupational sick pay.
• Enhanced maternity/adoption and paternity pay.
• Flexible working.
• Free onsite parking.
• 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 to arrange an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Jimmy Green or Rich Atherton, Lead Shipwrights (HMS Victory), at jimmy.green@nmrn.org.uk  or richard.atherton@nmrn.org.uk .

Applicants are asked to apply via https://jobs.nmrn.org.uk/ no later than midnight, Sunday 10 December 2023. We will be conducting interviews at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Portsmouth in January 2024.

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.

Salary (Grade 6):  £32,507 – £36,855 per annum (dependent upon experience)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) – permanent

Location: Portsmouth Historic Dockyard with the opportunity to adopt hybrid working (combination of working onsite 3 days per week and 2 days per week from home)

We are looking for a creative interpretation professional to animate the truly unique HMS Victory conservation project. HMS Victory is a national treasure and icon – the world’s only surviving example of a first-rate line of battle ship from the age of sail, a veteran of the Battle of Trafalgar, and Horatio Nelson’s flagship. In 2022, the NMRN began work on a major conservation project, estimated at £40million over ten to fifteen years. This exciting project draws together traditional craft skills such as shipwrightry and rigging with cutting edge technologies including Nano-science, structural analysis and 4D archaeological recording, all within view of the half-million visitors per annum that visit Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

The Role

As the programme of work increases, the Museum is seeking to expand its capacity to ensure the project sets new standards for engagement across the heritage sector. This is an exciting new role which will be responsible for developing and delivering a programme of interpretation, communication and engagement activities to increase awareness of this complex and fascinating conservation project.

We are looking for an experienced interpretation professional who is confident in working on complex projects with diverse teams. You will be effective in developing and delivering physical and digital interpretation creatively which communicates sophisticated and detailed concepts in a way that is easy to engage with and transforms understanding in our audiences. Driving excellent internal communication across NMRN’s shipwright, archaeological, conservation, programming, operational and marketing teams, you will coordinate the work necessary to deliver this objective. You will be a champion of audience interests and provide guidance to the Project team to ensure our audiences are at the heart of what we do and that we deliver high-quality, world-class content.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

• Experience of exhibition/interpretation development, and working with museum collections/heritage assets/archaeological sites.
• Experience of developing creative interpretation that meets the needs of diverse audiences.
• Experience of managing and evaluating complex projects and implementing lessons from evaluation.
• Experience of developing online content.

This post requires a standard DBS check as a requirement of working on the naval base.

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).
• 25 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays), increasing to 30 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays) after 5 years’ service.
• Occupational sick pay.
• Enhanced maternity/adoption and paternity pay.
• Flexible 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.

For further details, or to arrange an informal discussion regarding the role, please email Andrew Baines, Deputy Executive Director of Museum Operations: andrew.baines@nmrn.org.uk

Applicants are asked to apply via https://jobs.nmrn.org.uk/ no later than midnight Sunday 3 December 2023 We will be conducting interviews at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Wednesday 13 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.