Digital Designer, Exhibitions

Job ref.: AUG20268700.

About us

Royal Museums Greenwich is a collection of diverse historical sites. The sites are the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, and the Queen’s House. Each of these sites has a unique identity and a common purpose to serve our communities, through sharing our collections and expertise. We are a place to explore the sea, space, art and history, and our strategy ‘Charting Our Course’ puts people at the core of its success.

The Role

The Exhibitions and Design team is responsible for creating engaging visitor experiences across Royal Museums Greenwich's galleries, exhibitions and wider digital programme. The Digital Designer, Exhibitions role sits within the Digital Design Team, part of the museum's Design Studio, where digital specialists work alongside exhibition designers to develop innovative visitor experiences from concept through to delivery. Working as part of a collaborative multi-disciplinary team that includes a digital developer, exhibition engineer and Senior Digital Producer, the Digital Designer, Exhibitions will play a key role in shaping how audiences engage with our collections through innovative digital interpretation, interactive experiences and accessible design. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to major exhibition and capital projects while helping to develop the museum's digital offer for diverse audiences.

Key responsibilities will include leading the digital design workstream of exhibition projects from concept through to installation; designing and producing high-quality digital media including user interfaces, motion graphics, film content, animations, interactive experiences and 2D/3D assets; providing specialist advice on user interface and user experience design; championing audience engagement and accessible design; and developing design concepts, prototypes and technical documentation that support the successful delivery of digital visitor experiences.

The successful candidate will have experience in designing and delivering engaging digital experiences for public audiences, creating digital media and interactive content, applying user interface and user experience design principles, and working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary project teams. You will have excellent working knowledge of industry-standard digital design tools, strong visual communication skills, an understanding of accessible and inclusive design, and the ability to manage multiple projects while maintaining exceptionally high creative standards.

This is a full time, permanent role in Band 4 - Senior Specialists. Core hours of work will be 36 per week, Monday to Friday between 9am - 5pm, with an additional hour to be worked as agreed upon with management. Due to the nature of the work flexibility is required in meeting the demands of the role.

Salary: £43,668 per annum.

We encourage you to read the attached job description/person specification before applying for this role. 

Please be aware that we are unable to sponsor visas.

Interviews are pencilled in for w/c 14th September. 

Benefits

We offer:

•    A generous pension scheme
•    25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
•    40% discount in our cafés, 30% in our shops
•    Interest-free loans (travel, bike, gym, learning)
•    Free Life Assurance Scheme covering you for 2 times your annual salary
•    Free entry to exhibitions at partner museums and galleries
•    Flexible and hybrid working options
•    A culture that celebrates individuality, collaboration, and innovation

To find out more, read a full list of our benefits.

EDI

Diversity and inclusion are integral to our work at Royal Museums Greenwich, as we are a museum for everyone. We want to foster a spirit of inclusion, collaborative working, innovation, and valuing people as individuals whose lives have been shaped by different experiences. Therefore, we welcome applications from everyone.

We actively work with Disability Confident scheme and ask that you let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments you need or things you would like us to know during the interview process, which may include being provided with the interview questions in advance, requiring a step free interview space, that you are eye-contact avoidant, or having the interview questions in a written format or additional time in timed tests, interviews or other assessment activities.