Vacancies - Digital Museum Project Steering Committee (Applications Closed)

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Introduction

The Trent Park Museum Trust is working to create a world-class visitor attraction to highlight the vital role played by the Secret Listeners who were behind some of the most important intelligence discoveries of World War Two. When the project is complete visitors will travel through magnificently restored and furnished rooms – Sir Philip Sassoon’s socialite and political world – to reveal the later clandestine operation against Hitler’s top military commanders recreated in the basement.

Born out of the "Save Trent Park" campaign, the Trust is working closely with Berkeley Homes, the owners of this 50-acre Green Belt site, to deliver an amazing visitor experience in the mansion house. In this endeavour, the Trust is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Architectural Heritage Fund among others, and the team includes a number of professional experts to help realise the vision of something extraordinary for the nation. The project was also backed by the Prince’s Regeneration Trust.

Once complete, Trent Park House will become an important link, both in content and geography, between existing attractions such as the Imperial War Museum and the Churchill War Rooms to the south, and Bletchley Park and Bentley Priory to the north. We aim to work in partnership with heritage attractions in the local area and also those with strong contextual links with Trent Park.

The restored mansion will be the centre of a programme of events, outreach, schools and education activity, lectures, exhibitions and community activity, bringing the history of Trent Park alive and creating interest and pride in the local area. Bringing up to 30,000 visitors a year to the mansion the Trust has a robust business plan that will see it becoming self-sufficient but also generating new local economic activity.

Digital Museum Project Steering Committee

While work on the capital project progresses, the Trust is keen to research and share as much of the House’s heritage as possible. The Digital Museum project will generate awareness and provide access to the House’s hidden histories, specifically those of the Secret Listeners. Some of the House’s most compelling history has lay hidden for decades, and as material becomes declassified, important information is only now being revealed.

Directly benefitting residents of Enfield, Edmonton, Barnet and Hertsmere, the project comprises:

  • a Schools project – developing and delivering pilot workshops for local primary and secondary school pupils;

  • a Community Participation project – focussing on archival research into individual Secret Listeners and recording the oral histories of the families/friends of Secret Listeners and others linked to the House;

  • the Digital Museum website – featuring the findings, interviews and schools learning resources developed as part of the project.

Project partners will include the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (Kings College, London), Enfield Library & Archive, Jewish Museum, Wiener Holocaust Library and schools in Enfield and Barnet.

To support the Board of Trustees in managing the project, we will appoint a project Steering Committee to oversee its work. The Steering Committee will have delegated authority to supervise and advise the freelance specialists who will deliver the project’s objectives. They will meet every two months to monitor progress vs the project plan, address concerns or challenges, and provide guidance and direction.

The Committee will comprise circa 4 to 5 experienced heritage professionals, including a representative from Enfield Council and a Trustee. It will be supported by a Project Coordinator and Project Administrator, while capital project team members will provide day-to-day direction to the freelance specialists. Project expenditure will be monitored during Steering Committee and Board meetings, supported by the Administrator, with expenditure authorised by Trustees.

The Committee Roles

The Trust are seeking up to three passionate, committed and energetic people to support the project with expertise and guidance. It is an immensely exciting and rewarding project and a unique opportunity to be involved in something that will make a major contribution to the local area.

In particular the Trust are looking for people who live in and around the Borough of Enfield to contribute the following skills and experience:

  • Primary or secondary education

  • Community projects and engagement, with a focus on local migrant communities

  • Heritage projects, particularly those focussed on access for the general public

  • Digital platforms, especially in connection to heritage projects

Apply

If you live in or around Enfield, or within easy travelling distance and can offer some of the above skills, the Trustees would love to hear from you.

Please send a CV with a covering letter explaining what you can offer this exciting project to Kate Francis (by email here) by 31 August 2022.

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