General Manager
Brunel Museum Closing date: Mon, 23 Nov 2026
- Full time
- £30k-£40k
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Job Summary
Job Description
Museum Operations and Retail s
Act as Organisational lead for all visitor experience and museum operations, including weekly opening, private tours and school visits
Act as Duty Manager 2 days per week (Monday and Friday), ensuring all opening up and closing down procedures are followed, and volunteers are briefed appropriately
Circulate end of week reports, flagging any operational issues
Be the onsite lead for any health and safety and safeguarding issues
Be the site security and safety operational lead, leading on all compliance including the annual compliance calendar (for example annual PAT testing, annual security reviews), ensuring relevant information is cascaded across the staff and volunteers, escalating to the Director and Board as appropriate
Manage and maintain all operational policies and procedures (Lost Property…etc)
Act as the first point of escalation for routine operational matters, escalating to the Director when necessary
Take an effective and pragmatic approach to risk management, including taking responsibility for the Organisational compliance calendar, risk register, accident reporting and fire safety monitoring
Lead the Museum's retail function, including oversee quarterly purchasing for retail and merchandising calendar, producing quarterly reports on sales, and suggest new product lines
Team Leadership
Train and lead Volunteer team, along with Learning Producer, to deliver excellent visitor experience, and achieve targets for donations, Gift Aid and Membership
Work with the Learning & Audience Producer to maintain an annual training calendar for casual staff and volunteers (including but not limited to fire Safety, First Aid, Safeguarding, How to use the till)
Manage the Museum's cleaner, ensuring the museum is presentable to all visitors and guests
Manage the Finance Coordinator, ensuring all finance processes are properly followed
Manage the weekend Duty Managers and the casual Duty Managers, incl
Job Requirements
Essential
Operational leadership: Experience managing the day-to-day operations of a customer-facing organisation, with a practical, hands-on approach to solving problems and keeping things running smoothly.
People leadership: Experience managing and developing diverse teams, including volunteers and casual staff, with the ability to build a positive, inclusive and accountable working culture.
Organisation and project management: Highly organised, with the ability to manage competing priorities, establish effective systems and processes, and ensure that work is delivered to a high standard and on time.
Health, safety, safeguarding and risk: Good understanding of health and safety, safeguarding, risk management and organisational compliance, with the confidence to identify issues, take appropriate action and escalate when necessary.
Financial and commercial awareness: Experience managing or monitoring budgets, suppliers and operational expenditure, with the ability to understa
Job Overview
- Job Title: General Manager
- Salary: £30k-£40k
- Hours: Full time
- Artform: Museums
- Role: Human Resources
- Contract: Permanent
- Closing date: Mon, 23 Nov 2026
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Location:
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Job: General Manager
Job: General Manager
Organisation: Brunel Museum
Postcode: SE16 4LF
How to Apply
Deadline: If you are interested in the role, please send your CV to [email protected] with 2 references by 9am, Monday 23 November 2026
Interviews are expected to take place between 9 and 11 December 2026 at the Brunel Museum, Railway Avenue, London, SE16 4LF
About Brunel Museum
The Brunel Museum tells is the local story of an engineering family that changed the world.
As well as building the world’s first tunnel through soft ground under a navigable river, the Brunels hosted the first underwater concert party here in 1827