Jobs & Volunteering

Any paid, voluntary or educational opportunities with us will be listed here. Please download all the information for the role you’re interested in (job description and person specification, application form and equal opportunities monitoring form) and return the completed job application form and equal opportunities form to the persons specified below.  When applying please ensure you read all of the supporting information and carefully address all areas of the person specification.

Sorry, we don’t accept CVs and we don’t accept applications from recruitment agencies.

We receive a large amount of applicants for our vacancies. If we have not contacted you within 3 weeks of the closing date of the role applied for please assume that you were unsuccessful on this occasion.

You can find out more about the museum and our values here: NFM Advocacy Document 2019

Our Equality & Diversity Policy can be found here: NFM Equality & Diversity Policy 

Our Privacy Statement can be found here: NFM Privacy Statement – Staff Recruitment

Our Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form can be found here: 2019.11 NFM Equal opportunities monitoring form

Paid Opportunities

Museum Futures: one-year placement (paid)

Deadline: 6 November 2020

Fancy a season’s worth of paid training at the National Football Museum? We’re taking part in the Museum Futures scheme, and are looking for someone to join the side on a one-year paid placement scheme.

The Museum Futures trainee will help the museum’s Content team to coordinate and develop informative, engaging, accessible and diverse content for the museum’s galleries and online use. The chosen candidate will be fully trained on digitisation (including photography and scanning objects) and digital engagement (including online events and schools programming).

The trainee will mainly work at our Manchester site, but will also support work at our stores in Preston (travel expenses will be paid).

To find out more and to apply for the role, click here

Museum Futures is positive action traineeship. We particularly welcome applications from candidates that are under-represented in the museum sector, including Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, candidates without an undergraduate degree, and/or disabled candidates.

Volunteer Opportunities

If you’d like to volunteer with us, please send your application to [email protected] using this form: NFM Volunteer Application Form

You can find out about our latest volunteer opportunities by clicking here.