Job Description

Communications

Full time, 41 hours per week (including 1 hour paid lunchbreak)

Permanent

34,713 per annum

Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 21 July 2025

About the role:

Join the British Museum's dynamic Website Content Team as a Website Content Editor, collaborating closely to shape britishmuseum.org, inspiring and engaging our global audiences. Reporting to the Website Content Manager, you'll contribute to delivering a seamless and enriching user experience across our digital presence. Your responsibilities could involve updating key sections like Visit and Membership, building engaging research project pages, crafting compelling web stories and supporting vital user acceptance testing for ongoing website development.


In this role you'll work effectively with cross-functional teams, including Marketing Campaigns, Press, Production, Social Media, and other Museum departments, to ensure content consistency, clarity, and maximum impact for our many audiences.

Key areas of responsibility:

Develop and produce high-quality, user-centric content for britishmuseum.org, informed by audience insights, user testing, web analytics, and digital trends. Collaborate with subject matter experts and internal teams to ensure content accuracy, clarity and impact. Commission, assess, and select compelling imagery to enhance content, utilising photo editing software like Photoshop. Implement and enforce the Museum's editorial style guide, tone of voice, and writing-for-web guidelines across all content. Optimise website content for search engines (SEO) and provide guidance on best practices to other content creators. Ensure all website content adheres to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) accessibility standards, employing various testing tools. Support the Website Product Manager with user acceptance testing (UAT) and development work for the CMS (Content Management System). Monitor and report on website performance using Google Analytics, applying insights to improve content effectiveness.

About you:

Degree or equivalent experience. Significant experience in content editing and web production for large websites. Effective copywriting, copy editing and proof reading of short and long form content, using appropriate guidelines. Understanding of content design principles. Experience with Content Management Systems, preferably Drupal, Digital Asset Management Systems and an understanding of the technical requirements and limitations of these systems for managing multi-lingual content. Good knowledge of Google Analytics or similar packages for extracting data about content consumption in live products. Confident and competent in sophisticated image editing techniques in Photoshop, Illustrator and similar packages. Excellent planning and organisational skills, especially scheduling. Experience of making creative decisions in live production scenarios. Excellent communication both written and verbal, especially with a range of contributors with multiple demands. The ability to manage and develop good relationships with internal/external clients/customers. A pro-active can-do attitude to all aspects of the role.

About the British Museum:

Founded in 1753, the British Museum's remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture. The Museum is a leading visitor attraction, and its world-famous collection includes the Rosetta Stone, Egyptian mummies, the Sutton-Hoo finds, and the Lewis Chessmen. The Museum also holds an extensive collection of prints and drawings spanning 600 years, including works by the greatest graphic artists such as Durer, Michelangelo and Rembrandt.


You can view a selection of our impressive collection of prints and drawings in our virtual gallery.


The Museum offers a competitive benefits package including:


Generous annual leave allowance of 25 days (rising to 30 days after 10 years' service) plus 2.5 privilege days and plus bank holidays. Membership of the civil service defined benefit pension scheme (find out herewhat benefits a civil service pension provides). Free entry to a wide range of museums and exhibitions Participation in private and public Museum activities, including talks by leading curators from around the world and behind-the-scenes opportunities to learn how museums care for and manage their extraordinary collections. Interest-free travel, bicycle, and rental deposit loans Professional and personal development opportunities Employee Assistance Programme Discounts on food and gift shop purchases

Additional details:

For more information about this role, please see the job description.


If you have any additional needs that we should be aware of to support you with your application, please provide details to bmrecruit@britishmuseum.org.

We have a legal responsibility to ensure that employees have the right to work in the UK. If you currently do not hold the right to work in the UK, we can only sponsor a limited number of roles that meet eligibility criteria. To offer a sponsorship, the job role you apply needs to be in the list of eligible occupations: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-eligible-occupations. Additionally (with some limited exceptions), the role will need to meet the minimum salary threshold of 38,700 or the going rate for the job, whichever is the highest. You can find more information here: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/your-job


The British Museum is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a working environment in which all individuals can make best use of their skills, free from unlawful discrimination or harassment. We value the benefits that a diverse workforce brings to a museum which represents world culture. The Museum is committed to ensuring that no job applicant suffers unlawful discrimination because of any protected characteristics. Our recruitment procedures aim to ensure that individuals are treated because of their relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.


We specifically encourage applications from candidates from ethnic minority groups who are underrepresented within our senior roles.


We offer a flexible way of working scheme that allows our employees to work remotely in a way that suits them and the organisation. We welcome questions and conversations at interview stage about how flexible working could work for you. We would typically see this role as working on site about 1 day a week.

The Museum also adheres to the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) for pre-employment screening of Civil Servants.