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Vacancies: Front of House Supervisors

17 January 2012

The National Football Museum is now recruiting for two Front of House Supervisors to deliver a world class visitor experience at our new home in Manchester.

We aim to give visitors to the museum an amazing experience in a welcoming, safe and secure environment where staff are friendly, approachable and knowledgeable. The Front of House Supervisors are pivotal in the delivery of this experience.

The successful candidates will demonstrate the following skill and experience amongst other qualities:

• Enthusiasm for providing a superb visitor experience
• Experience of leading a team in a customer service environment
• Excellent inter-personal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities will include:

• Assisting with recruitment and training of Museum Assistants
• Assisting the FOH Manager with motivating and developing the front of house staff, including casuals and volunteers
• Collecting and recording visitor feedback
• Promoting innovation amongst the front of house team in generating income.
• Conducting team meetings and daily briefings
• Acting as first point of contact for any operational issues during the shift.

For a full list of responsibilities, person specification and details of how to apply, download the Word document attached below.

Closing date for applications is Monday 13th February 2012. Please quote NFMWS when applying.

FoH Supervisor Job Description (0.48 MB)

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Vacancies: Front of House Supervisors

17 January 2012

The National Football Museum is now recruiting for two Front of House Supervisors to deliver a world class visitor experience at our new home in Manchester.

We aim to give visitors to the museum an amazing experience in a welcoming, safe and secure environment where staff are friendly, approachable and knowledgeable. The Front of House Supervisors are pivotal in the delivery of this experience.

The successful candidates will demonstrate the following skill and experience amongst other qualities:

• Enthusiasm for providing a superb visitor experience
• Experience of leading a team in a customer service environment
• Excellent inter-personal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities will include:

• Assisting with recruitment and training of Museum Assistants
• Assisting the FOH Manager with motivating and developing the front of house staff, including casuals and volunteers
• Collecting and recording visitor feedback
• Promoting innovation amongst the front of house team in generating income.
• Conducting team meetings and daily briefings
• Acting as first point of contact for any operational issues during the shift.

For a full list of responsibilities, person specification and details of how to apply, download the Word document attached below.

Closing date for applications is Monday 13th February 2012. Please quote NFMWS when applying.
FoH Supervisor Job Description (0.48 MB)
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Celebrate Sport with the National Football Museum and the BBC

7 December 2011

We're giving families the chance to get a taster of the museum and take part in a range of fantastic free activities and workshops over the next two weeks, thanks to the BBC.

In the run up to Sports Personality of the Year we'll be joining the BBC for a fortnight of Celebrate Sport events at Media City UK.

From Thursday 8 December there are free family friendly activities 4pm until 8pm during the week and 10 to 6pm at the weekend. Tickets are on a first-come, first-served basis so get yours now!

For more information and to apply for your free Celebrate Sport with the BBC tickets go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/events/celebrate_sport_events

4pm – 8pm, Weekdays - Come and join us in our Celebrate Sport Playzone in the Studio Block where you can take part in a football radio play; practice your sports commentary; conduct all your favourite BBC Sport theme music; get a sneak preview of the National Football Museum’s exhibits, play a brand new computer football game that helps with your maths or take a penalty in our mascot challenge.

10am – 6pm, Weekends - The National Football Museum in partnership with Celebrate Sport is offering Baby Moves and Movement Matters classes for Budding Busby Babe toddlers and babies. There’s storytelling by Pickles the dog, the hero of the 1966 World Cup or come or help us create a giant Celebrate Sport collage. (Sat 10, Sun 11, Sat 17 and Sun 18 December)
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Vacancy: Part-Time Exhibition Curator Role

6 December 2011

The National Football Museum is due to open in the Urbis building in central Manchester in 2012, providing a high-profile new home for one of the leading sporting museums in the world.

One of the key drivers of attendance will be the ambitious programme of temporary exhibitions that will take place in the dedicated exhibition gallery on Level 3.

The distinctive approach to temporary exhibitions at NFM will explore broad themes through the lens of football, and will appeal to audiences who would not usually think of visiting a football museum, as well as being accessible to existing audiences.

Our opening exhibitions will feature international contemporary artworks and photography. It is anticipated that an exhibition exploring the interrelationship between fashion and football will open in January 2013.

NFM is looking to appoint an experienced exhibition curator to develop the Fashion and Football project further for 12 months for 2 days per week from January 2012. This position will involve working closely with NFM staff, particularly after the opening of the new building when NFM staff will devote more time to the exhibition.

For a Job Description, Person Specification and details of how to apply, please download the Word document below.
Football and Fashion Exhibition Curator Job Description (0.48 MB)
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Villa's Night of Celebration

10 November 2011

It's official: the Aston Villa side that lifted the European Cup in 1982 are part of the National Football Museum Hall of Fame.

The 19 squad members were presented with their medals at a fantastic dinner event at Villa Park's Holte Suite on Thursday October 27th. Over 500 fans were able to join in the celebration as former manager Ron Saunders made the presentations.

The players, including Gary Shaw, Ken McNaught, Gordon Cowans, and captain Dennis Mortimer were reunited with the man who brought the team together on an emotional evening for everyone.

Speaking to the Birmingham Mail at the event, Mortimer described the event as "An amazing honour. It's nice to be recognised and for our names to go into the Hall of Fame, knowing that they will be there forever, is fantastic."

The National Football Musem Hall of Fame honours the players, managers and teams who have contributed the most to the English game. Previous team inductees include Sheffield FC as the world's oldest club side, the 1968 European Cup winning Manchester United side, Liverpool's dominant 1978 squad and England's World Cup winners.

New teams, players and managers will be inducted each year in a prestigious ceremony here at the museum from 2012 onwards.

For those who want to see more from the Aston Villa event, we'll be adding photographs of the evening to Facebook.com/NationalFootballMuseum soon.
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National Football Memorabilia site launches

9 November 2011

A new memorabilia website has launched, sales from which will help support the National Football Museum.

www.nationalfootballmemorabilia.co.uk went live this week. The site, run by Memorabilia Matters, features a wealth of collector's items, including signed shirts, boots and balls, limited edition artworks and souveniers.

Signed items are available from sporting legends such as 1966 England World Cup-winning captain Sir Bobby Moore as well as household names including Sir Bobby Charlton, Sir Bobby Robson, Pele and Diego Maradona to name but a few. There's even a chance to get an England 2011 replica home shirt personally signed by an England player.

Memorabilia Matters are a specialist memorabilia company who help charities and sports organisations raise funds, and money raised through the site will help support the charitable aims of the National Football Museum.
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New edition of The Football Hall of Fame out now

3 November 2011

Museum Director Kevin Moore was able to present our president Sir Bobby Charlton with the first copy of the new edition of the National Football Museum Hall of Fame book recently.

The book, featuring a foreward written by Sir Bobby, looks at the great players, managers and teams inducted into the National Football Museum Hall of Fame. Written by football historian Robert Galvin, the book features great images, stories and stats stretching from the Sheffield FC side of the 1850s, and early greats such as Arthur Wharton and Billy Meredith, through to Aston Villa's recent European Cup-winning inductees and modern greats like Ryan Giggs and Thierry Henry.

The book, published by Anova, can be purchased online here for just £15, and is also available via Amazon and all good bookshops.
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Guest blog from our Director for Sport Close Up

31 October 2011

Museum Director Kevin Moore has written a guest blog for sports museums website sportcloseup.co.uk.

In it he talks about how exciting the coming months will be for all of us working on the opening of the new museum in Manchester, and what we hope to acheive when we are open:

"The new National Football Museum will open in Manchester next year and everyone who works for the Museum is of course very excited about this fantastic opportunity.

Preston had provided a home for the Museum since 2001 (our collections stores and research facilities will continue there), but thanks to funding from Manchester City Council and the European Regional Development Fund we will now be able to showcase our outstanding collections to a much wider audience, within a space that is more than twice as big as the Preston site.

We aim to be not just a national museum but also an international visitor destination and, by taking over the whole of the city’s landmark Urbis building, we can ensure a world-class home for the greatest collection of football memorabilia in the world..."

You can read the rest of the article on Sport Close Up here.
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Job Vacancy - Sponsorship & Partnership Sales Manager

11 October 2011

The National Football Museum is looking for an experienced development professional to join our Commercial Development team.

Our Sponsorship / Partnership Sales Manager will identify and secure potential partnerships and sponsors for the Museum via the corporate sector, individuals, grant-making trusts, foundations and other potential sources.

Application is via CV and covering letter and the closing date for applications is 5pm, Friday 4th November. If you'd like to know more about the role or apply please download the full job description and person specification below.
Sponsorship & Partnership Sales Manager Job Description (0.28 MB)
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Join the legends' line up at the Museum!

5 October 2011

DO YOU dream of being immortalised among the world’s football greats?

Well now you can truly claim a place among the world soccer elite and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with giants like Maradona, George Best and Pele in an innovative new display planned for the re-opening of the National Football Museum at its new home in Manchester.

The museum is calling on anybody involved in grass-roots football to contribute to their ‘Football for all’ display – they are looking for pictures of people playing amateur football, either in action or of players in their kits. This is their chance to be immortalized alongside legends of the game, and claim a part of footballing history!

National Football Museum Director Kevin Moore said: “The ‘Football for all’ zone is designed to showcase how everybody can enjoy the beautiful game regardless of barriers they may face, focusing outside the professional leagues and featuring players from the grass roots game. The six themes making up the zone will be age, ethnicity, gender, perseverance, sexuality and disability.”

Councillor Mike Amesbury, Executive Member for Culture and Leisure for Manchester City Council, said: "The National Football Museum is going be a national and international attraction taking in everything from legends of the beautiful game to its real grass roots. This is the perfect opportunity for football fans to put themselves in the picture, and take their place alongside some of the greatest names in football."

The best photos will be featured alongside other objects and photographs from the collection of nearly 140,000 pieces of football memorabilia, including the world famous 1966 World Cup Final ball and the shirt worn by Maradona during the 1986 ‘Hand of God’ quarter final match between England and Argentina.

Anybody wishing to contribute their photographs (at least 300dpi and 1mb) with a brief description of the shot, can email them in to competition@nationalfootballmuseum.com with the subject line ‘Football for all’ before Monday 17 October.
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BBC Launches Celebrate Sport

19 September 2011

Museum Director Kevin Moore and Museum President Sir Bobby Charlton were both at the launch of BBC Sport's Celebrate Sport event - 2 weeks of sporting events taking place at MediaCity UK in the run up to this year's Sports Personality of the Year.

We're happy to say that the National Football Museum will be getting involved throughout the fortnight, with items from our collection, education sessions and family activities as part of the programme that will see thousands of people engaging with sport at the MediaCity UK site.

With Sports Personality of the Year now due to be broadcast live from the Salford studios from this year, we're delighted to be part of the build up to the prestigious ceremony.

You can find out more about Celebrate Sport on the BBC Sport Website, and we'll be updating our News and Blog pages with more about what we'll be upto soon.
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Leave a Legacy To Your Favourite Museum

13 September 2011

This September we're joining forces with some of Manchester’s best-loved museums and galleries to highlight how important legacy donations can be to our organisations.

The announcement is inspired by the first ever International Legacy Giving Day taking place today, Tuesday 13 September 2011.

We're working with partners from Manchester Art Gallery, The Whitworth Art Gallery, The Manchester Museum, Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) and the People’s History Museum.

The city’s galleries and museums are grateful recipients of many artefacts and legacies which have been generously bequeathed over the years. Today however, financial donations are becoming increasingly important to the future of museums and galleries. These organisations are using International Legacy Giving Day as a focus to encourage people to consider writing a gift into their wills, which will be recognised as a valuable contribution in the years to come.

Directors of Manchester Museums and Galleries released a joint statement commenting on the new initiative:

"Manchester's rich cultural landscape is home to an outstanding array of nationally and internationally important museums and galleries displaying collections of the highest calibre. Our rich history is based on a thirst for knowledge, and over the years our supporters have recognised the importance and the value that museums have for everyone. In times of economic austerity, when it may not be quite as easy as it was to make financial donations, writing a gift in your will is a wonderful and effective way to support the museums and galleries that you care most passionately about. By helping to secure our long-term financial future in this way, you can play a vital part in ensuring that our work will continue to benefit current and future generations.”

If you'd like to know more about leaving a gift to the National Football Museum please email enquiries@nationalfootballmuseum.com
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The Manchester Weekender

6 September 2011

We're proud to announce National Football Museum is involved in this year's brilliant Manchester Weekender.

Over the 14th / 15th / 16th October the city's festivals, museums, galleries and creative talent will come together to create a weekend of unique events. Put together by the team behind Creative Tourist, these three days of constant cultural celebration promise to deliver something for everyone.

While our new home may not be open to the public yet, we are offering some free family friendly events at our near neighbours. At Manchester Cathedral (Saturday, from 5pm) and The Triangle (Sunday from 11am) there'll be drop-in sessions with football-mad poet Mark Mace-Smith; a veteran of our work with young people he'll help people of all ages turn those feelings that only football can inspire into Sheer Poetry.

On Saturday there'll be a chance to take a Football Tour of the city, uncovering tall tales, infamous haunts and places that have helped shape the game in the company of an expert guide from New Manchester Walks. It costs £6 and you pay on arrival at the Visitor Info Centre in Piccadilly Gardens at 3pm. The 2 hour walk will end near our new home in Cathedral Gardens.

For more information on the Weekender visit www.creativetourist.com/the-manchester-weekender-2011
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See yourself on this site!

19 August 2011

As you've hopefully already seen, this holding site wants you to contribute something ahead of the museum's opening.

We all have stories, opinions, memories and favourite facts about football and (alongside the guys from Wonder Associates who put the site togther), we thought it'd be great if, as the National Football Museum, we could let our online visitors share their favourite stories, before we start telling ours in our new home.

When we begin the countdown to our opening the days will tick down with your stats and stories appearing on the site each day. However we've had such great interest, and so many funny, personal, interesting stories already that it seems a shame to keep them all under wraps. So each week we'll put one new picture up on our homepage - it may be the most detailed artwork, the funniest story or the strangest fact of the week.

If yours doesn't get added don't worry, you still might get featured in our final countdown. If you're on Twitter leave us your username as we'll tweet out our favourites even if they're not going to make it onto the site. We won't be able to put everyone's efforts on the site or on Twitter, but every time you submit a drawing we'll send you a unique link so you can share your masterpiece yourself (all entries will be moderated though, and no offensive language or images will be published - so keep it clean and friendly!)

Click the 'Join In' button, get drawing and send us your finest now! Our narrow favourite from the first 48 hours of the site being up was from a Norwich City fan, recalling the teams heady foray into Europe in the early 90s. Maybe we'll see your artwork on the site soon?

If you're not feeling artistic you can still be part of 'The Crowd' by pressing either the Twitter or Facebook icons on The Crowd part of the site - so get involved and enjoy the site!
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We Love Manchester!

18 August 2011

Last week may have been a worrying time for many city centre business and residents, but the aftermath has seen a city-wide show of support for those affected by the disturbances.

Business quickly got back to normal from Wednesday onwards (thanks in part to a very visible Police presence), and pretty quickly we started to see 'I Love MCR' posters in windows, t-shirts on the streets and ribbons on people's online profiles.

It's been great to see the level of pride in the city and how happy people have been to declare their love of the town after a tough couple of days. Soon we hope to be another big reason why residents and visitors will love Manchester, but for now we'll have to settle for displaying the posters with pride, and hitting the 'Like' button at facebook.com/weloveMCR
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Villa's European Legends to join Hall Of Fame

17 August 2011

The latest team to join the National Football Museum Hall of Fame will be honoured at a special ceremony at Villa Park on Thursday 27th October.

The Aston Villa side who lifted the European Cup in Rotterdam in 1982 will be reunited at a black-tie dinner event, and will be presented the award by the manager responsible for bringing the team together, Ron Saunders.

The team, including Peter Withe, Gary Shaw, Nigel Spink, Denis Mortimer and Ken McNaught, become just the seventh group to receive a 'team' award. They join a list containing the likes of the England 1966 team, Manchester United of 1968 and the Liverpool side of 1978.

Launched in 2002, the National Football Museum Hall of Fame celebrates the greatest players, managers and teams of all time in English football. The Selection Panel is made up of some of the biggest names in the game, including Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Bobby Charlton, Gordon Taylor and Mark Lawrenson.

This special induction ceremony at Villa Park will provide fans with a unique opportunity to get up-close and personal with arguably their greatest-ever team on an evening of celebration and recognition.

Individual tickets for the evening can be booked by contacting Adam Russell on 0161 482 8222 or by email adam@inconnection.uk.com. Tables for 10 can also be booked, costing £600 including a 3 course dinner and souvenir programme. Find out more about packages for the event at http://www.dayatthe.com/national-football-museum-hall-of-fame-awards-dinner-villa-team-of-82--p20e2441.html

The National Football Museum's new home, the Urbis building in Manchester, is being renovated ahead of opening in 2012. It will be the new home of football's Hall of Fame and host annual gala events for new inductees.
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Just Text Giving - Support our Education work

15 August 2011

The team here may be working flat-out to make a world-class museum, but lots of our work continues to take place out-and-about, in classrooms and on pitches across the region. And we need to ensure we get as much support as possible for that work.

We're proud that, as museum of the national game, we can reach people who wouldn't normally give museums a chance. Since we've been based in Manchester we've been looking at ways to extend our Streetspeak project (www.streetspeak.org.uk), which for three years has been working with groups of young people from around the region. Streetspeak combines football training and sessions with poets to help build literacy skills and confidence in kids from at-risk groups or who have struggled to engage with literacy in school.

The work created by participants and feedback from everyone involved has been incredibly positive, and we'll be including work from the sessions in the museum once we're open.

We're looking for companies and people to support the work of our Learning & Communities team (click 'Sponsorship' on the left to read more), and have signed up for the 'JustTextGiving' service from Vodafone to help raise money before we open our doors.

Individuals can donate up to £10 to help our education work by simply texting our special code (TNFM12 - that's The National Football Museum, opening 2012) and the amount, eg TNFM12 £5, to 70070. As a registered charity we can even claim Gift Aid on donations. The amount donated either comes off your Pay-As-You-Go credit, or is added to your next phone bill.

As a free-entry attraction with an ongoing commitment to educational activities we hope to make it as easy as possible for people to donate and support our work.

Welcome to our holding site. Join in with our countdown

Vacancies: Front of House Supervisors

17 January 2012

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Vacancies: Front of House Supervisors

Blog

Celebrate Sport with the National Football Museum and the BBC

News

Vacancy: Part-Time Exhibition Curator Role

Blog

Villa's Night of Celebration

News

National Football Memorabilia site launches

News

New edition of The Football Hall of Fame out now

Blog

Guest blog from our Director for Sport Close Up

News

Job Vacancy - Sponsorship & Partnership Sales Manager

News

Join the legends' line up at the Museum!

Blog

BBC Launches Celebrate Sport

News

Leave a Legacy To Your Favourite Museum

News

The Manchester Weekender

Blog

See yourself on this site!

Blog

We Love Manchester!

News

Villa's European Legends to join Hall Of Fame

Blog

Just Text Giving - Support our Education work

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