Visitor and Sales Explainer, Science

  • Contract
  • London

Royal Museums Greenwich


Job Description

Visitor and Sales Explainers are responsible for delivering demonstration-style activities developed by our Astronomy team. Explainers are expected to lead these interventions and demonstrations with our visitors, always delivering to the highest standard by putting visitors first. They will support Royal Museums Greenwich in the delivery of our commercial objectives by engaging with all visitors, sharing their knowledge and expertise of our sites and programming, and helping us to drive audience outreach to help achieve our social purpose.

We are looking to fill fixed-term contracts for 12 months, with possibility of extension.

The types of hours available are:

Full-time

  • 33.75 hours per week, on a rota including weekends and bank holidays. Shifts are 6.75 hours per day. Salary: £24,400 per annum.

Part-time

  • Lunch Cover – 4 hours per day shifts, usually from 11:30am-3:30pm. Salary: £14,459 per annum. We can also offer lunch cover positions working 3 or 4 days per week.
  • Weekends – 13.5 hours per week, working Saturdays and Sundays. Salary: £9,760 per annum.

Benefits

We offer a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, a generous pension scheme, 28 days annual leave (pro rata for part-time contracts), discounts in our caf s and shops, interest-free season ticket and bike loans, training opportunities and continuous performance management reviews to support personal and career development, and NMDC reciprocal agreement for free admissions to other museums and galleries’ paid exhibitions. For a full list of the benefits, please For a full list of the benefits, please https://www.rmg.co.uk/file/24181/download?token=g1qAT9NP – click here.

Job Requirements

A passion for delivering a great visitor experience alongside excellent customer service skill, the ability to connect and share knowledge with a range of different audiences, and demonstrable knowledge and interest in scientific expertise, historical stories, the collection of the Royal Observatory, or astronomy are essential to this role.

Job Overview

  • Job Title: Visitor and Sales Explainer, Science
  • Salary: £20k-£25k
  • Hours:
    Full time
  • Artform: Museums
  • Role: Customer Service
  • Contract: Contract
  • Closing date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026

  • Location:

    London

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Job: Visitor and Sales Explainer, Science

Job: Visitor and Sales Explainer, Science

Organisation: Royal Museums Greenwich

Postcode: SE10 9NF

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