Safety Compliance Lead

Are you an experienced compliance, safety or assurance professional who enjoys turning policy into practice? Do you thrive on building robust processes, developing guidance and training, and working collaboratively to help organisations operate safely and effectively?

About us

At the Science Museum Group, we make it our mission to inspire futures. Across our museums, we welcome millions of visitors each year and care for some of the world's most significant collections. To keep our museums safe, accessible and open for all, we're committed to the wellbeing and protection of our people, visitors, collections and buildings.

We're now looking for a Safety Compliance Lead to join our People & Culture team on a permanent basis. Based at the National Railway Museum in York, with hybrid working available, this is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting compliance, assurance and continuous improvement across our Safety function.

About the role

As Safety Compliance Lead, you'll help ensure that our approaches to health and safety, security, resilience and safeguarding remain effective, consistent and compliant across the organisation. You'll take the lead on developing and implementing compliance monitoring processes, coordinating internal audits and supporting the delivery of departmental procedures and training.

Working closely with the Head of Safety, Health & Safety Manager, and Resilience & Security Lead, you'll collaborate with subject matter experts across the organisation to identify requirements, develop practical solutions and drive continuous improvement.

You'll also lead initiatives that promote a positive safety culture across the Science Museum Group, helping colleagues understand their responsibilities while ensuring our museums remain welcoming, safe and resilient places for everyone who visits and works within them.

About you

You'll be a proactive and organised professional with experience in compliance, assurance, auditing, monitoring or a related discipline. You'll enjoy working with detail, identifying opportunities for improvement and helping others understand and embed good practice.

You'll bring experience of developing guidance, procedures, training materials or communications, and be comfortable researching requirements, gathering information from a range of stakeholders and translating this into practical, user-friendly solutions.

You'll have strong communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to build positive relationships across a wide range of teams and work effectively with colleagues, subject matter experts and external partners. Whether delivering audits, supporting compliance activities or promoting departmental initiatives, you'll be someone who can work collaboratively while maintaining a clear focus on achieving outcomes.

You will have:

• Experience of carrying out audits, monitoring activity or compliance reviews.
• Experience of developing training, guidance documents or communications.
• A relevant Health & Safety and/or Security qualification, alongside an interest in developing your knowledge across health and safety, security, safeguarding and organisational resilience.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including experience using Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to work independently whilst also contributing effectively as part of a team.
• A proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement.
• An understanding of the challenges of working in public-facing operational environments.
• Experience of working with a variety of stakeholders across different environments and locations.
• A pragmatic, collaborative and solutions-focused approach.
• Most importantly, you'll share our commitment to creating safe, inclusive and welcoming environments where colleagues and visitors can thrive.

Don't feel you meet every requirement? We'd still love to hear from you. We recognise that people gain skills and experience in different ways and welcome applications from candidates with transferable skills and experiences.

Applying

View the Vacancy Information Pack listed under 'Attachments' on the vacancy listing on our website for more information about the role and application process, or click 'Apply Online' to submit your application.

What we offer

Working with a world-leading museum group that offers access to truly unique environments and collections, you'll benefit from the perks listed below, as well as full support for life events such as parental and adoption leave, sickness, and career breaks.

• Meaningful work. We're a mission-led organisation where the work you do supports us in Inspiring Futures.
• Career growth. We offer enhanced support with personal and professional development.
• Work/life balance. We offer 27 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, along with flexible policies which support you and your home life.
• Health & Dental. Support with treatment costs, from day one.
• Wellbeing. All our colleagues can access an employee assistance programme and other wellbeing support.
• Colleague networks. Our colleague-led networks are an informal forum for colleagues to come together to discuss topics of shared interest and lived experience. They create a space for people to exchange ideas, discuss best practice, socialise and build a sense of community.
• Enhanced contributory pension. To support you in saving for the future.
• Interest-free loans. When you need a little extra cash for life events or home improvements.
• Great discounts. Free entry to exhibitions, discounts in our shops, cafes, and access to other museums in the NMDC network.

Open for All is one of the Science Museum Group's five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to develop a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge, and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation, capable to continue to Inspire Futures.

...[more details]

Location: York

Salary: £44,000 per annum

Job reference: SMG03563

Apply by: 26/07/2026

Contractual hours: 35

Basis: Full time