Description

Closing Date: 03-Jun-2024

The Role
The V&A has an ambitious target to be Net Zero by 2035 for Scopes 1,2 and 3. A huge amount of work has taken place to embed knowledge and build governance structures to deliver on our net zero ambition, including making sustainability a core value at the museum. To help deliver our ambition, we are looking for highly adaptable project manager.

The Project Manager will be a change maker, responsible for delivering projects within the Sustainability team. They will have significant and varied project management experience, however experience in sustainability is not essential.
This role will be the project lead to mandate a travel platform. This will improve data collection for our Scope 3 emissions and enable us to drive behaviour change to reduce carbon emissions from business travel through the development of carbon budgets. This role requires stakeholder engagement and inter-departmental collaboration across the entire organisation to deliver this change project effectively.

The Project Manager will be flexible, adaptable and have the capability to support the delivery other projects within the department.

Please note this an 12month FTC.
The V&A
The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
Our mission is to be recognised as the world's leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people's lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience. We strive to make the V&A matter to more people and in that context we work to the following six strategic objectives:
To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.
Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.
Expand the V&A's international reach, reputation and impact.
To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.
Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.
Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.