Museums and Heritage Management

Overview

The Prospects occupational profiles provide an overview of key roles within the sector including:

Museums Association
Includes a jobs and careers section covering how to build your career in museums and galleries, a vacancies section, and a section on opportunities for people from BME backgrounds in their Diversify programme.
English Heritage
Recruitment pages including what they are looking for, job vacancies and the opportunity to sign up for job alerts.
National Trust
Recruitment pages give information about the range of roles available and job vacancies.

These sites list vacancies and may be a good starting point for identifying work experience contacts – see also Getting work experience.

List of Museum and Heritage Management related job sites available on Career Hub – log in and go to ‘Info Sheets’ and search for Museum and Heritage Management.
Jobsgopublic.com
A recruitment website where you can search for jobs in museums and heritage.
Museumjobs.com
Job vacancies in museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
Nationalmuseumsjobs.org.uk
Job vacancies across the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
Jobs.guardian.co.uk
Job vacancies which includes arts and heritage jobs.
Nationalarchives.gov.uk
Job vacancies with the National Archive.
Engage
Volunteering opportunities and some job vacancies.
Artsculturemediajobs.com
Job vacancies in culture and heritage.
Totaljobs.com
General recruitment website which includes graduate zone. Put keyword ‘museum’ or ‘heritage’ into quick search box for related vacancies.
Regional museums and places of heritage are listed on the Bristol City Council website. For information on museums and heritage sites in your area see your local council pages.
Civil Service jobs pages
Civil Service careers including vacancies for heritage and history.
Other graduate vacancy sources – graduate job sites and links.