Job details Job reference: 2025R000377 Date posted: 31/07/2025 Application closing date: 17/08/2025 Location: Ulster Museum, Belfast Salary: £37,694 - £38,990 pro rata, per annum Package: NICS pension leave entitlement. Contractual hours: 37 Basis: Full time Job category/type: Audience Development Senior Designer National Museums NI is a leading cultural institution and is responsible for ensuring that its significant collection is developed, cared for and accessible to the widest possible audience. Almost one million people enjoy our four museums each year, and through loans, research, community activity and digital programmes we engage a much wider audience than those who physically visit our museums. We believe that our museums can play an important and valuable role at the heart of society. Through our work we preserve, protect and promote the region&s cultural assets, knowledge and collective memory. We provide shared and trusted spaces to explore who we are, where we have come from and where we might be going. We engage and work in partnership with the public to share stories and care for and present a vast range of objects bringing important cultural, educational, social and scientific ideas to life. We unite the past, present and future; enhance health and well-being; make places more attractive to live in, work and visit; and, create positive economic impact. We inspire present and future generations of pioneers, designers, makers and community leaders. Our museums are loved and trusted public institutions: they provide joy, prompt reflection, and foster curiosity about the world around us. As an organisation, we believe in excellence, authenticity, teamwork, respect and courage and seek an individual who can share and embody our core values. The Senior Designer collaborates with our Marketing and Communications colleagues to develop and embed our brand across our four museums. They design wayfinding and signage, programming collateral and publications. They create design for marketing materials, strategic comms, education and commercial projects $ as well as directing design by colleagues, outside contractors and agency. The Senior Designer will work closely with the Digital Media team to ensure physical and digital experiences are developed in tandem, creating cohesive, immersive visitor engagement. Through their designs they will support the integration of new technologies and storytelling approaches where digital media meets in-person interpretation. The Senior Designer manages design projects of all sizes through all stages as required from briefing to production. They form project teams and quickly integrate and collaborate with other specialists within the museum $ especially Curators and our Digital Team, but also with Visitor Services, Programming, Operations, ICT, Education and Collections Care colleagues. They procure, brief, and manage specialist subcontractors including illustrators and production partners. The Senior Designer works with the Design and Interpretation to strengthen collaboration within the team and across the Museums while raising the quality of all design outputs. They must effectively prioritise the work of the studio, as many different requests are made for design from colleagues across the organisation and from partners. This post is based across the Ulster Museum, Belfast (where our Design Studio is located and where the postholder has a permanent desk). The postholder will also be required to regularly work at National Museums NI&s Corporate Headquarters in Cultra (hot desk, up to one day a week). Travel to other National Museums NI sites and locations will be required. More information can be found in the Applicant Information Pack attached. To be considered for this role you will be redirected to and must complete the application process on our careers page. To start the process, click the Apply button below to Login/Register.