Archive Project Manager
De La Warr Pavillion Closing date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026
- Part time
- £40k-£50k
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Job Summary
Job Description
The De La Warr Pavilion is seeking an experienced professional Archive Project Manager, who can balance technical proficiency with a commitment to collaboration and participatory practice. The role will include managing the creation and development of a new Digital Archive, reviewing existing physical and digital collections, establishing and maintaining systems for sustainable collections management, designing and supervising description and digitisation activities, managing an Archive Apprentice and supporting a community archive collecting programme. It will be based between DLWP and Bexhill Museum.
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Job Requirements
The De La Warr Pavilion is seeking an experienced professional Archive Project Manager, who can balance technical proficiency with a commitment to collaboration and participatory practice.
This is a key role, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, within the 'Transforming Heritage' project. Based between Bexhill Museum and the De La Warr Pavilion, the post holder will work closely with Bexhill Museum, The Keep, and DLWP's Heritage Engagement and Volunteer Manager, Digital Transformation Manager and Digital Content Creator and will recruit and line-manage an Archive Apprentice.
The role will include managing the creation and development of a new Digital Archive, reviewing existing physical and digital collections, establishing and maintaining systems for sustainable collections management, designing and supervising description and digitisation activities, managing an Archive Apprentice and supporting a community archive collecting programme.
Job Responsibilities
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Job Overview
- Job Title: Archive Project Manager
- Salary: £40k-£50k (pro-rata)
- Hours: Part time
- Artform: Combined arts
- Role: Research
- Contract: Temporary
- Closing date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026
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Location:
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Job: Archive Project Manager
Job: Archive Project Manager
Organisation: De La Warr Pavillion
Postcode: TN40 1DP
How to Apply
If you need further information to help with your application, please contact Sally Ann Lycett, Director of Audiences and Programme on [email protected].
Please send your CV, letter of application and equal opportunities form to [email protected] by 5pm on Friday 13 November.
- Contact name: Sally Ann Lycett
- Contact email: [email protected]
About De La Warr Pavillion
The De La Warr Pavilion (DLWP) is a centre for contemporary art within one of the most iconic modernist buildings in Britain. In the pioneering and progressive spirit from which the building originated, we produce an innovative, high quality and integrated programmes of art, live performance, learning and culture. By putting artists and audiences at the heart we aim to be accessible and relevant, create opportunities, drive aspirations and reflect the thinking and ideas of the world in which we