ABOUT US

We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum’s unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.
Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.
We employ 900 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.

The Natural History Museum’s vision is for a future where people and planet thrive and it’s mission is to create advocates for the planet. Our strategic priorities include engaging and involving the widest possible audience supporting everyone to speak up and take action for nature.
Following the launch of our Strategy (link) we’re embarking on a transformational period of change; redeveloping our galleries and public spaces; creating national and global initiatives; making use of digital and new technologies to extend reach and deepen engagement. This role will lead the Audience Research and Advocacy team and will be responsible for the creation and implementation of strategies to ensure the development of new spaces and experiences meet audience needs and reach out to those that currently don’t visit or are underserved. This role will define and lead the front-end, formative and summative research for galleries and experiences, helping the Museum to understand impact and embedding a continuous improvement approach. Research will also support the Museum in securing funding. This role is central to our plans to develop our galleries and to engage and involve the broadest audience.
Your work will support the Museum to build positive relationships with audiences and for audiences support them to build connections to nature.