Overview
Role Summary
Senior Video Producer
Communications
Full-time: 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break)
Permanent
£41,723 per annum
Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on Monday 6th October 2025
About the role:
The British Museum is looking for a Senior Video Producer to join the in-house Video & Audio Production team. The role is responsible for creating and supporting digital content for stakeholders across the Museum to the highest standard. You will support the messaging, content strategy and KPI’s set by the Head of Department (HoD)
As Senior Video Producer, as well as creating and possibly presenting content, you will be the departmental lead on video and audio production; technically and editorially influencing and supporting a talented and skilled team of Video Producers to create stand-out entertaining, informative and factually accurate content that doesn’t dumb down but smarts-up!
You will have creative flair, a passion for detail and storytelling. You will intellectually engage and collaborate with the staff to tell the exciting stories of the museum. You will monitor and manage the content of the Museum’s YouTube channel; producing high-quality, in-depth content for our world leading exhibitions, individual galleries, membership, communications, short-form online advertising, social media, podcasts and YouTube channel to grow and engage our audience of curious knowledge seekers and forward thinkers.
You will have a genuine interest and experience in YouTube content and trends; understand the differences between making content a success on YouTube vs short form platforms, or broadcast; identify data driven opportunities to optimise future content; understand how to drive audience engagement, build communities and grow our YouTube audience.
Key areas of responsibility
- Content creation: Producing, filming and editing long and short-form videos that align with strategic goals of the department and Museum, whilst expanding understanding of a subject.
- Drive best practice in video-audio production, legals, H&S and respectful collaboration of BM staff.
- Coordinate work with other teams with a digital remit (Marketing, comms, social media, membership, exhibitions) to advise and share assets.
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to develop ideas to turn them into projects.
- Production Management: Create and implement end-to-end production frameworks to ensure production and stakeholder needs are met to set schedules.
- Working with the HoD to manage team allocations, schedules and production workflows, ensuring content opportunities are maximised and deadlines are met.
- Ensure digital assets are archived and catalogued to a high and efficient standard and assist in maintaining an efficient data management system and workflow.
- YouTube: Managing content publication on the BM YouTube channel to maximize engagement and reach. Monitoring comments and metrics, creating channel health reports to report on engagement, trends and performance, with a view to optimizing content to grow audiences.
- Team Support: Managing freelancers and supporting stakeholders across the Museum.
- Day to day management and personal/career development of direct reports
- Accountability: Collaboration with and reporting to HoD on project development, scheduling, team management and planned or ongoing projects.
- Be an ambassador for the Production department’s work throughout the BM to encourage close collaboration between depts.
Please see Job Description for a full list of responsibilities related to the role.
About you:
- Passionate about creating Museum related content
- Degree (or equivalent) in Video Production, Film, TV or a subject aligned with part of the Museum’s collection, or demonstrable video production industry experience.
- Highly proficient in filming, lighting and sound recording, ideally with Sony FX3, Sony FS6 or equivalent).
- Confident self-shooter, producer-director, with significant experience working with contributors.
- Highly proficient in editing and graphics production using Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and After Effects) and archiving 4K footage workflows.
- Demonstrable experience of producing video and audio content in different formats (landscape, portrait) for a variety of short and long-form social media platforms.
- Good understanding of video and audio file formats and archiving processes and workflows.
- Senior level experience with people and project management.
- Good knowledge of YouTube channel management and best practice, and ability to translate performance and audience data insight into developing video formats.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Important Note: You must provide a showreel to support your application. We advise using YouTube or Vimeo links, as files cannot be attached to your application. Your showreel can be any length, but must include text specifying what you did in each clip e.g. camera operation, editing, grading, directing, writing etc. If you do not provide a showreel we may not review your application
Please include a link to your showreel on your personal statement.
If you require any assistance, please contact bmrecruit@britishmuseum.org
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 one of the leading visitor attractions and its world-famous collection includes the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, Egyptian mummies, the Admonitions Scroll, and the Amaravati sculptures.
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 here what 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.
The interviews are expected to take place on the week of the 20th October 2025.
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.
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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 at least three days a week.
The Museum also adheres to the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) for pre-employment screening of Civil Servants.
