Inclusive Practice Lead

Salary: £61,100

Closing date: 26, January 2024

Contract type: Permanent

Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library exploring health and human experience, where you can enjoy exhibitions, museum and library collections, public events, and a vibrant shop and café. We also publish books and online stories.

This is a great time to join Wellcome Collection as we embark on an exciting period of change. Wellcome Collection has recently introduced a new ten-year strategy and this role will play an important part in bringing to life our vision of a world where everyone’s experience of health matters.

Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation that supports science to build a healthier future for everyone. Wellcome Trust plans to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won’t be solved by science alone.

We are looking for an Inclusive Practice Lead to join our team on a permanent basis.

Where in Wellcome will I be working?

This role will join the Wellcome Collection’s Access Diversity and Inclusion team, which is situated in the wider Equity department with Wellcome.

This post holder will work across Wellcome Collection to champion anti-ablism and anti-racism in our ways of working; helping to stimulate and build a culture of designing with racially minoritised, disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent visitors to improve access to our museum and library service so that we can contribute to our vision of a world where everyone’s experience of health matters. Champion inclusion and accessibility to our building, programmes, content and collections and help teams in delivering access improvements to the visitor journey across all touch points.

What will I be doing?

Working closely with colleagues across Wellcome Collection to support the delivery of Wellcome Collection’s new AD&I strategy and to ensure diverse audiences engage with and feel a sense of belonging to Wellcome Collection by helping to embed critical and inclusive practices in our processes and culture.

Act as an active member of the Wellcome Collection Management Team to develop reciprocal links across teams within Wellcome Collection to develop and deliver this work.

Support Wellcome Collection’s anti-racist and anti-ableist practice through personal development, coaching, nurturing networks and developing teams.

We are looking for someone who can:

• Advocate for Anti-racism and anti-ablism within varied disciplines across the museum, archive and library, acting as a critical voice that encourages reflective practice and improvements to process and practices that will lead towards more equitable access and outcomes.
• Support individual and teams to develop and improve their practices, focusing on anti-racist practice, through a coaching approach that opens pathways to explore nuanced barriers and opportunities in the pursuit of inclusive practice.
• Support piloted interventions, to improving and practices by driving teams to incubated and evaluate ideas, ensuring appropriate people are included, informed or consulted.
• Design, commission and lead work to explore anti-racism, anti-ablism and intersectional learning across Wellcome collections, using your expertise in these areas to contribute to the community of practice within the Equity directorate.
• Contribute to a diverse and inclusive culture across the organisation, collaborating across departments.
  
  

Is this job for me?

You are someone who thrives on working in diverse and multidisciplinary teams. You are confident in supporting others to achieve an outcome that honours their experience. You are comfortable with providing critical feedback in a solution-oriented manner. You are excited about the intersection of theory and practice in anti-racist, anti-oppressive and anti-ablest work in museums and libraries. You are a confident advocate for access, equity, diversity and inclusion work and its importance for audiences, participants, collaborators and staff.

We are looking for somebody who:

• Is a clear and confident communicator, able to adapt complex messaging to wider variety of stakeholders
• Has demonstrable coaching skills
• A strong awareness and comprehension of anti-racism, including how racism manifests in museums, libraries and archives
• Has experience of designing and delivering programmes and services with and for racially minoritised, Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent audiences.
• Experience of working with teams to be user focused and embedding practices that ensure users can shape the organisation.
• A strong awareness of inclusive and accessible project design.
  
  

To apply please upload your current CV and complete our short application.

Interview dates: Week commencing Monday 17, February 2025

You can view the full job description on our website.

You can read more about the benefits we offer our employees on our website

Our Hybrid Way of Working 

We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best.

At Wellcome we have a hybrid way of working which is 3 days in our Euston Road offices (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.

Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do

Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. Please visit our website for more information on adjustments and accessibility, or contact us at [email protected].