Head of Strategy and Operations

In this role, the Head of Strategy and Operations will create and lead a world-class development operations function, play a pivotal role in developing and planning the Museum’s major capital campaign, and embed best practice in fundraising and information management across the Development directorate.

The postholder will manage the Development directorate’s strategy development and delivery planning, and is responsible for campaign management, research, stakeholder data and insight, fundraising proposition development, reporting, gift management, business processed, and compliance. The role drives, facilitates and underpins activity across the Development department and makes a significant contribution to the Museum’s fundraising and stakeholder engagement activity.

This is an exciting time for the British Museum. We are embarking on our Western Range project – one of the biggest museum redevelopment projects anywhere in the world. This physical transformation is in the service of an intellectual transformation. We are rethinking how we display our collection – the most holistic and ambitious redisplay in the Museum’s history. We have appointed world-renowned architect Lina Ghotmeh to rejuvenate and redevelop our Western Range – accounting for over a third of our galleries. The Development directorate will enable this transformation by delivering a major capital campaign, in which the Head of Strategy and Operations will play a central role.