Chair, Museum Accreditation – Museums and Cultural Property

Location: in-person annual meetings rotate around major UK cities with travel costs paid, most other meetings online

Role Type: Voluntary position for a fixed term of four years (with the possibility of reappointment)

Time commitment: Up to 5 days a year is estimated

Closing Date: midnight on 11 April 2025

Salary: This is a voluntary role, with UK expenses reimbursed. An allowance is available to freelance/self-employed Accreditation Committee Members.

To be eligible for the allowance members/the Chair must be either:

• Full-time freelance or self-employed
• A freelancer or self-employed person who also has a part-time salaried job (full details are available in the policy)
• Unwaged or not in receipt of a salary
  
  
  

Members can claim £50 per hour up to £350 per day. This can include travel time.

Specific Hours: In total, a time commitment of up to 5 days a year is estimated

Overview Of The Role

The UK Accreditation Scheme for museums and galleries is owned by Arts Council England and managed throughout the UK via a formal partnership agreement with Museums Galleries Scotland, Northern Ireland Museums Council and the Welsh Government. The Accreditation Committee is a subcommittee of Arts Council England’s National Council. The Committee is made up of sector practitioners and related roles with UK representation and representation from a range of different types and scales of museums.

As Chair of the Accreditation Committee, you will play an important role in helping to raise standards in museums so that public trust is retained in them as long-term custodians of our shared heritage. You will lead the Committee at an interesting time as we start a user-focussed redesign of Accreditation, while keeping the scheme open to participants throughout. We want to ensure it is meeting the needs of those running museums, helping them to be accountable and to be planning for a successful and sustainable future.

We are looking for a museum leader who is passionate about museums and public collections and their role and potential and is knowledgeable about the museum and heritage sector throughout the UK.

For this role we are seeing expertise in the following area:

To view the Role Description please click here

To view the Terms of Reference for the Committee please click here

To view the Recruitment Pack please click here

If you would like to discuss any aspect of the role, the person specification or appointment process in confidence, please contact Isabel Wilson, Senior Manager, Museums and Cultural Property isabel.wilson@artscouncil.org.uk

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To apply please:

• Download and complete the application form. You may also attach a CV should you wish to. To download the application form please click here
• Applicants should also complete and return an Equal Opportunities monitoring form. To download the Equal Opportunities form please click here
  
  
  

Please submit your application by emailing accreditation.committee@artscouncil.org.uk

Please state Chair Accreditation Committee in the subject line; all applications will be acknowledged by email.

Closing date: 11 April 2025 at midnight

Interviews: 08 and 09 May 2025

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