Creative Producer: Access and Inclusion

About Us

We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum's unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.

Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.

We employ 900 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.

Diversity and inclusion matter to us.

Our vision is of a future where both people and the planet thrive. Diversity is one of our core values and we strive to build a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. All new staff who join us learn about the importance of diversity and inclusion to the Museum and how to contribute to creating an inclusive environment.

We know we have more to do, but we are committed to ensuring that everyone who works at the Museum feels they can thrive and feel valued and respected.

About the role

The Natural History Museum has a bold strategy, has declared a planetary emergency and has set out our mission to create advocates for the planet. To create advocates for the planet, we need to engage and involve the widest possible audience.

The Learning team creates opportunities for and supports young people aged 0-25 to understand, connect, care for and advocate for the planet. The Creative Producer: Access and Inclusion is a newly expanded role that will lead the development and delivery of inclusive and accessible creative programming.

This role is crucial to realising our aim and we are committed to improving accessibility across our programme. Key areas of work include the coordination and continued delivery of our externally funded Dawnosaurs Programme, working across the Learning team to improve programme accessibility, expand our resources and work towards the development of SEND specific programming.

The role will also support and input into the development of new opportunities and provision for our community programme and young people aged 16 and up through our emerging youth programme, working with local organisations and beyond to draw up what this offer could look like .

This is a fixed term appointment for three years, until the end of August 2028. The post will report to the Schools and Families Programme Manager.

About you

To succeed in this role, you will be a creative, collaborative producer who has demonstrable experience of developing inclusive and/or accessible programmes, particularly for children and young people. You will be a confident communicator with experience of working with a wide variety of people, and have the ability to build positive, productive relationships across a large organisation.

The Dawnosaurs programme is funded by the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation, with current funding to August 2028, this programme offers five annual exclusive and unique early morning events at the Museum for neurodiverse children aged 5-15 and their wider family or carers. Visitors have access to a wide range of galleries and activities, supported by experienced, autism-aware facilitators before the Museum opens to the general public.

Thriving at the Museum: the way we work

We are proud to work at the Museum and have identified the qualities we all need to embody to reach our shared ambition. This sits alongside the Museum's values and forms the framework for the way we work.

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What we offer

• 27.5 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (full time equivalent)
• Generous defined contribution Natural History Museum Pension Scheme (employer contribution 4 - 10%)
• Season ticket, bicycle and rental loan
• Life insurance
• Free admission to our exhibitions and many other paid exhibitions at museums, galleries and institutions across London and the UK.
• Staff discount at our Museum shops and cafes
• We offer a wide variety of training initiatives and opportunities to build skills. Investing in staff development is important to us, and we are ambitious about helping staff to grow and fulfil their potential.
• Affordable membership to the Civil Service Sports Council which offers a range of benefits including an extensive list of special offers and reduced entry fees at a selection of cinema chains, theme parks, theatres, retailers and supermarkets. It also provides entry to up to 300 English Heritage sites and other national treasures. For more details, visit
• Membership to our Sports and Social Association (for a small fee), which includes access to our in-house gym and clubs such as football, softball, table tennis and tennis and classes in Middle Eastern dance, yoga and Tai Chi

Hybrid working

We are working towards a vision where both people and planet thrive, and nothing gives a greater connection with this, than seeing first-hand, the visitors, scientific research and collections that all of our work is inspired by and working side by side with the teams delivering the visitor experience and events. We also recognise the benefits and flexibility that hybrid working brings. We operate a hybrid working model that requires regular, weekly attendance for this role, with the precise pattern of days on site and worked from home to be agreed with your manager.

How to apply

If this sounds like you, please apply below by clicking on Apply for job.

Please note that as part of our commitment to anonymised shortlisting, panels do not view CVs during the recruitment process. If you choose to upload your CV, our system will automatically pull information from your CV into our application form. We advise you to double-check your application form data before submitting as the tool may interpret CVs differently.

Closing date: 23:59 on 13 July 2025

Interviews expected: w/c 28 July 2025

Please note that this role does not qualify for Museum sponsorship so the successful postholder will need to have a valid right to work in the UK at the point of offer.