Project Manager: COVID-19 Community Heritage Archive project

  • Contract
  • London

Eastside Community Heritage


Job: Project Manager: COVID-19 Community Heritage Archive project

Job: Project Manager: COVID-19 Community Heritage Archive project

Organisation: Eastside Community Heritage

Postcode: E15 2QS

  • Job Title: Project Manager: COVID-19 Community Heritage Archive project
  • Salary: £25k-£30k
    (pro-rata)
  • Hours:
    Part time
  • Artform: Charity
  • Role: Research
  • Contract: Contract
  • Closing date: Mon, 18 May 2026

  • Location:

    London

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Job Description

Are you a passionate project manager who believes every community’s story deserves to be heard?
Eastside Community Heritage is seeking a dedicated Project Manager to lead a National Lottery Heritage Fund-supported project preserving the COVID-19 experiences of Asian, Muslim, Bengali, and African-Caribbean communities across East London (Tower Hamlets, Newham, and Waltham Forest).
You’ll coordinate oral history interviews, oversee the digitisation of fragile materials, and help build an accessible archive contributing to the COVID National Memorial – ensuring voices too often left out of mainstream narratives are finally heard.

Job Requirements

Proven experience managing complex, community-based projects
A genuine commitment to inclusion and amplifying marginalised voices
Strong interpersonal skills and cultural sensitivity
Experience with budgets, stakeholder coordination, and volunteer management
A trauma-informed, people-first approach
Knowledge of oral history, heritage preservation, or community languages such as Bengali or Sylheti is a bonus.

Job Responsibilities

Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, and budgets ensuring milestones are achieved and risks mitigated
Coordinate recruitment and training of interviewers in trauma-informed oral history techniques
Manage relationships with partners
Lead outreach recruiting diverse participants and prioritising marginalised voices
Build trust with communities excluded from mainstream heritage initiatives
Facilitate Community Advisory Board meetings
Work with Digital Archivist ensuring materials meet National Archive standards and are catalogued with comprehensive metadata
Develop audience communications
Oversee development of online platform
Coordinate production of commemorative publication
Create curriculum-linked educational resources and organise teacher training workshops
Plan and deliver March memorial launch event bringing communities together
Implement evaluation framework measuring quantitative outputs and qualitative community impacts
Produce regular progress reports

How to Apply

Please apply using the application form, downloadable from the website. Please send completed application form and monitoring form to [email protected]
The monitoring form will be separated from your application upon receipt and will not be shared with the selection panel.

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