Careers & Jobs
You can download job application forms and details of our current vacancies below.
Current Vacancies
front of house & retail assistant
In this role you will maximise the museum's income from shop and ticket sales while maintaining the museum's good name and reputation for excellence.
Salary: NMW/NLW
Hours: As and when required
Deadline for applications: 5pm on Sunday 27 April
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multi site cleaner
In this role, which includes early morning, weekend and school holiday working, you will clean the allocated museum property.
Salary: NMW/NLW
Hours: As and when required
Deadline for applications: 9am on Monday 21 April
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seasonal catering assistant (the furnace kitchen)
Working collaboratively with the Furnace Kitchen team, you will carry out basic food preparation tasks alongside general front of house duties while striving to put our customer at the heart of everything you do.
Salary: NMW/NLW
Hours: Various available. Seasonal contract to end September 2025
Deadline for applications: 9am on Monday 7 April
Closed to new applicants
DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
Reporting to our Communications Manager, you will raise the profile of IGMT by developing compelling photographic and video content for use across our digital communications channels.
Salary: £23,000 to £25,000pa subject to experience, pro-rata to contract term
Hours: 36.5 hours per week – fixed term contract to 31 December 2025
Deadline for applications: 9am on Monday 31 March
Closed to new applicants
front of house catering assistant (BLISTS HILL VICTORIAN TOWN)
Reporting to our Front of House Team Leaders, you will greet and serve our customer, providing a detailed overview of our menu while multitasking various front of house duties. As a team player, you will be able to effectively communicate with your team to ensure orders are accurate and delivered promptly.
Salary: NMW/NLW
Hours: Zero-hour seasonal contract to end September 2025
Deadline for applications: 9am on Monday 24 March
Closed to new applicants
museum development officer (data & comms)
Museum Development Midlands (MDM) is seeking a Museum Development Officer (Data and Comms) to join their small team. In this role you will help MDM support Midlands museums by ensuring the programme delivers effective communications to Midlands museums, and is informed by accurate, up-to-date data.
Museum Development Midlands (MDM), funded by Arts Council England (ACE) is delivered in partnership by Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust (IGMT) and Leicestershire County Council (LCC). The MDM programme delivers opportunities for development, training and grants to museums and heritage organisations across the Midlands. We empower them to thrive, through a varied programme of support informed by the ACE Let’s Create Strategy and the Museum Accreditation Standard.
Salary: £21,851 actual (full time equivalent £27,037 per annum)
Hours: 29.5hrs per week, Monday to Thursday
Deadline for applications: 9am, Monday 17 March
Closed to new applicants
visitor engagement demonstrator (blists hill victorian town)
Have you ever visited Blists Hill Victorian Town and wished you didn't have to go home? If so, it's your lucky day! We're looking for enthusiastic people to join our team at Blists Hill to help us share the stories of our local history, buildings, objects and activities through third person interpretation and demonstration.
Salary: NMW/NLW
Hours: Various hours/days/contracts available
Deadline for applications: 9am on Friday 14 March
Closed to new applicants
Staff benefits include
- Paid annual leave up to 33 days (includes public holidays), pro-rata for part-time staff
- Auto-enrolment to the Nest Pension Scheme for eligible staff
- Optional healthcare plan through Paycare
- Free on-site parking
- Participation in a staff Membership Scheme which includes:
- Free unlimited daytime standard entry to all museums for staff member plus one accompanying adult and up to four children
- 20% discount on catering spend, including at the Furnace Kitchen
- 20% discount on retail spend
- 20% discount on retail spend in Victorian exhibits at Blists Hill Victorian Town
- 4 free standard daytime admission passes for use by friends and family accompanying staff member
- Discount on special event tickets
How to apply
To request a Job Description and application form for any of these posts please contact the HR team - humanresources@ironbridge.org.uk. Please note CVs will not be accepted.
We reserve the right to discontinue the recruitment process at any stage. Similarly, you have the right to withdraw your active application at any stage of the recruitment process.
We have lots of varied volunteering opportunities all year round - find out more on the Volunteering section of our website.
Our commitment to diversity and equality is a long-standing one. We believe arts organisations, museums, and libraries should ensure that their work draws on and reflects the full range of backgrounds and perspectives to be found in our society.
Disabled, D/deaf and/or neurodivergent people, those from Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse backgrounds are under-represented in our workforce so we particularly encourage applications from people in these groups.
Downloads
- IGMT Application Form (PDF)
- IGMT Application Form (Word document)
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.