Travel Trade & Museum Events Executive, Royal Air Force Museum

  • Location: London
  • Salary: £26,010 per annum
  • Contract: Full time, permanent

The Royal Air Force Museum is recruiting an experienced executive to join the Events team to lead the development of the business with the travel trade and support the delivery of museum events and tours.

The Travel Trade and Events Executive will be responsible for the development of the Museum’s business with tour and other group visits (excluding schools). The postholder will play a key role in developing the travel trade offer, selling into the travel trade and managing bookings and group feedback. The role will also provide some event management support, focussing on the delivery of Museum events and members events. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Museum as they deliver on an exciting vision as set out in their Strategic Plan to 2030.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Leading the development of the Museum’s travel trade and group business, ensuring the offer is aligned with key audience groups at home and abroad
  • Performing a leading sales role to the travel trade.This will include working closely with the Communications and Marketing teams on the development of marketing plans to the travel trade, attending exhibition and leading fam visits where appropriate
  • Taking lead responsibility for the management of key groups while on site in London
  • Acting as key strategic account manager for key partners in the travel trade, ensuring they are managed actively and effectively
  • Leading on the operational delivery of selected museum events, particularly RAF Day and Hendon Happy Hour
  • Leading on the operational delivery of the Museum’s member events and supporting the Head of Events on the development of the programme
  • Working closely with the Customer Service team to ensure that all booking processes for groups and member events are managed effectively
  • Acting as a key travel trade stakeholder at selected internal and external groups, including selected industry bodies such as ALVA and the Museums Association

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How to apply: Please send your CV with a supporting statement which provides specific examples which demonstrate how you meet the competencies in the job description. The shortlisting process will give greater weighting to the essential technical competencies.

Please send the completed documents to [email protected] with by 12pm on 16 February 2022.  Interviews will take place on 25 February 2022.

About RAF Museum: The Royal Air Force Museum is a national museum, a Government non-departmental public body (NDPB) and a registered charity, with two sister sites at London and Cosford. RAF Museum Enterprises Ltd is the trading arm of the RAF Museum with all profits gift-aided to the Museum to support its charitable activities. Our purpose is to share the RAF story, past, present and future – using the stories of its people and our collections in order to engage, inform and inspire everyone. Our overall vision is to inspire everyone with the RAF story – the people who shape it and its place in our lives.