Fundraising Campaign Project Manager: Masterplan
Full-time
Hybrid (at least 4 days per week on-site in Bloomsbury, London)
Permanent
£49,829 per annum
Application deadline: 23:59 on Sunday, 6 September 2026
About the role
The British Museum is embarking on one of the most significant cultural redevelopment projects undertaken anywhere in the world. Our £1 billion Masterplan programme will transform the Museum, from visitor experience to our permanent exhibitions and how we document our collections, while ensuring that our collections remain accessible to millions of visitors and future generations.
To help deliver this vision, we are seeking an experienced Masterplan Campaign Project Manager to play a pivotal role in enabling and coordinating a major fundraising campaign of national and international significance.
This is an exciting opportunity for a fundraising professional with strong project management expertise to work alongside senior leaders, philanthropists, campaign specialists and colleagues across the Museum, helping to build the systems, processes and momentum that will support the next phase of this transformational programme.
You'll join a collaborative and ambitious Development team and have the chance to:
If you're a highly organised fundraising or development professional who enjoys bringing people, projects and ideas together to achieve ambitious goals, we'd love to hear from you.
About you
Key areas of responsibility
The Masterplan
The British Museum is undertaking its biggest transformation since its founding nearly 300 years ago. This physical and intellectual transformation includes large scale building and gallery transformation, new ways of connecting with audiences and different ways of working. As we look towards this exciting future, we remain guided by the words of our founder Hans Sloane - who dreamed of a museum connecting all arts and sciences, which would be accessible to everyone, everywhere.
Benefits
At the British Museum, we believe our people are at the heart of everything we do and have designed a benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary. Our full list of benefits can be found here, but we’ve outlined some highlights below:
Our Values
Our values drive everything we do, from how we handle our objects to how we work in our team to fostering a culture where everyone feels heard and empowered:
These are a core part of how we recruit. Throughout the application, interview and selection process, we look for examples of how candidates demonstrate these behaviours in their own work and experiences. We encourage you to familiarise yourself with our values and reflect them in your application.
Additional details
If you have any additional needs that we should be aware of to support you with your application, please provide details to [email protected].
Right to Work: The British Museum holds a Skilled Worker sponsor licence. Applicants are responsible for determining whether the advertised salary and role meet current UKVI sponsorship requirements and for ensuring they have, or can obtain, the appropriate right to work in the UK. The Museum cannot provide immigration advice, and eligibility should be checked before submitting an application.
The Museum also adheres to the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) for pre-employment screening of Civil Servants.
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