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January 2009
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 To apply, you will have proven management experience (a minimum of 12 months) and transferable skills that can be directed to the museums sector. The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) is funding four pilot traineeships in 2006-2009. Museums and Heritage Services, Birmingham City Council and Leicester City Museums Service are hosting the first two management-level traineeships which were recruited for at the end of 2006.
What can you expect? You will gain structured general and management-level experience in a museum full-time over 18 months. You will also undertake a limited amount of museum-studies and management training specifically tailored to your needs. Your host venue will offer a choice of two projects for you to manage during your traineeship. Leicester, for example, offered the choice of developing activities and programmes for Newarke Houses Museum (currently undergoing a £2m refurbishment), or strategic planning across the entire museums service. We appreciate that you are likely to have financial responsibilities and that taking an income drop for the period of training will be difficult. For this reason, a training bursary is offered. What will you achieve? Each successful applicant will have the opportunity to: - join a leading regional museum service to gain a broad range of training and experience over 18 months, with a training bursary - deliver a significant project as part of your training - undertake a programme of training tailored to your needs which will include an introduction to the sector and development of management skills - receive professional development benefits from the Museums Association including membership and attendance at conference and seminars What happens when the traineeship ends? On completion of the traineeship, you will be encouraged to apply for any suitable vacancies within the sector, but selection will be based on equal opportunity criteria and merit. You are not guaranteed a permanent position at your host museum, because this would constitute positive discrimination. Over 80% of Diversify participants have found jobs in museums or galleries. Others have secured funding to continue their museum-related studies.
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