Project Kaida Engagement Lead – Gurkha Museum Trust

Job Title:

Engagement Lead

Salary:
Budget £35,000 per annum (inclusive of travel and VAT if applicable)

Hours:

Flexible

Terms:

Freelance, 12-month initial contract, with potential extension to June 2028

Location:

The Gurkha Museum Trust, Winchester SO23 8TP

The Gurkha Museum Trust seeks to appoint an experienced, senior freelance consultant to help lead the delivery of its Activity Plan as part of Project Kaida, a major National Lottery Heritage Fund-supported redevelopment. The Activity Plan sets out an ambitious programme of audience development with engagement, participation, and skills activity designed to transform the museum’s reach and impact.

This is a pivotal moment for the project. The Activity Plan is ambitious, well developed, and ready to move forward  are now looking for someone who can hit the ground running – bringing energy, structure and momentum, ensuring the programme is fully mobilised, maximised, coordinated and integrated, and ready to support the public gallery reopening.

This is an opportunity to play a central role in shaping how audiences connect with a unique and significant national collection – onsite, offsite, and online, ensuring that the museum opens with a confident, inclusive and fully realised public programme.

This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role for someone who can turn plans into action. You will take ownership of a £280,000 programme of engagement, participation and skills activity – ensuring that:

• activity is fully planned, coordinated and ready to deliver
• the right structures, processes, and partnerships are in place
• delivery is to the highest standard
• the programme is on track to support a successful reopening
• activity is embedded across the organisation, coordinated and fully integrated across departments, and all team members are collaborating
• funding is deployed effectively and in line with NLHF requirements.

Applications should be submitted electronically (as a single word document or PDF) to

Deadline: 12noon on Monday 17 August 2026