Job Description

The Role
What we're looking for
An effective and confident design leader with a background in architecture (or a relevant design discipline) who can jointly inspire, develop and manage a small team.
The Design Team Lead will jointly lead the V&A's 3D design team, delivering imaginative and high-quality design across exhibitions, galleries, displays, installations, and museum spaces. Working closely with the Head of Design, and two counterpart Design Team Leads across Graphics and 3D teams you will lead your own set of design projects and team members from scoping through to completion, ensuring they are delivered to the highest design standards, on time and within budget.
We are looking for someone who can

• foster a culture of creativity, collaboration and professional growth with the ability to provide insightful design critique
• champion and provide expert design advice in all aspects of design across the museum to achieve excellence
• lead across planning, resourcing and design oversight
• directly manage and develop team members
• commission design for the museum, including full range of sub-consultants.
• build networks and engage in wider sector and disciplines

Essential to the role
1. Extensive experience developing design projects of different scales through all workstages in architecture and/or exhibition design practice.
2. A Masters degree in architecture or a relevant design discipline (i.e. interior, 3D, spatial, set, exhibition) or equivalent experience.
3. Experience leading across multiple teams and projects in parallel, including set-up and mobilising teams on projects.
4. Track record in design delivery with experience leading project teams, guiding and steering the work of team members to meet briefs, schedules and to exceed client expectation.
5. Proven track record of working with narrative to create engaging experiences.
6. Experience of working to rigorous requirements and with extensive user-groups and stakeholders.
7. Experience of commissioning, briefing, advising and managing a range of sub-consultants and contractors.
8. Excellent Vectorworks, Rhino, visualisation and Adobe CC skills (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
9. Strong technical knowledge with great detailing skills.
Desirable for the role
1. Experience in the museum or cultural sector
2. Existing relationships/network with design studios and subconsultants
3. Organisational planning or liaison, setting up and improving internal systems in teams.
Portfolio
To submit your portfolio, please include a URL within the personal statement section of your application.
The portfolio should include a selected range of relevant work that demonstrates skills for the role. Your portfolio should be readily available via any well-known file-sharing service/platform until the advertised start date. Please be advised that we cannot accept any links to individual/personal websites, as these are likely to be blocked by our IT security filter.
Please ensure your portfolio is submitted as instructed. Applications without a portfolio, or with one submitted incorrectly, cannot be considered.
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.

The Benefits
Benefits
Generous pension scheme
29 days plus bank holidays
Flexible working?
Tickets to V&A exhibitions
Subsidised staff canteen
25% discount in V&A shops
Give as you earn scheme
Bicycle loan
ED&I at The V&A
At the V&A, we are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for all and strive to go above and beyond public duty placed upon us by the Equality Act 2010. As such, we are delighted to share that we are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2. The V&A makes the following commitments to all applications:

• The Disability Confident Employer scheme offers guaranteed interviews - Interviewing applicants with a disability who successfully evidence the essential criteria on a person specification and consider them on their abilities;
• Providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
• Making reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process so disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job.
• Supporting employees and adjustments during employment.

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