Partnership Development Coordinator

National Mining Museum Scotland

Salary: £30,000

Closing date: Friday February 20th, 2026

Job Description

About the Role

To strategically build bridges between NMMS and a wide range of external stakeholders — including communities, local and national organisations, businesses, and education providers — in order to expand the museum’s networks, create opportunities for collaboration, and support organisational sustainability. This role is about building capacity, partnerships, and pathways that enhance NMMS’s programming, income generation, and impact, ensuring activity is aligned with the museum’s Masterplan and Three-Year Business Plan. This role is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Key Responsibilities

1) Strategic Bridge-Building

• Identify and broker relationships with businesses, community organisations, educational institutions, and non-cultural sectors to create opportunities for collaboration and income growth.
• Act as a connector between NMMS and external networks, ensuring the museum is represented in wider conversations (heritage, education, economy, environment, wellbeing).
• Map and develop strategic relationships with local, regional and national partners (community groups, third sector, education, heritage, culture, social enterprises, local authorities).
• Identify gaps in existing networks and create pathways for the museum to become embedded in wider community, cultural and economic structures.
• Represent NMMS in strategic forums to ensure recognition as a key contributor to community resilience, skills development and heritage identity.

2) Capacity Building & Internal Support

• Support NMMS staff across departments by brokering relationships that expand reach and impact.
• Build capacity within staff and volunteers to develop skills and confidence in partnership working.
• Embed systems for tracking and evidencing partnership links and outcomes to inform programming.

3) Programming Alignment

• Feed intelligence from networks into programme planning, ensuring community needs and opportunities are reflected.
• Strengthen collaboration across departments to maximise outcomes from exhibitions, events, education and festivals.
• Ensure partnerships contribute to income generation, skills development and alignment with policy (social, economic, environmental).

4) Organisational Development

• Identify partnership-based funding or collaboration opportunities to support sustainability.
• Contribute to embedding the ‘Golden Thread’ approach aligning community links, local and national priorities with NMMS strategy, KPIs and action plan.
• Provide quarterly reports to SMT and Board Committees on progress, gaps and opportunities.