ICOM UK Vacancy: Membership Officer

ICOM UK is hiring! We are looking for a highly organised, proactive and customer-focused Membership Officer to join our small, collaborative team. You will play a central role in helping to drive membership growth, while delivering an excellent service to our members by managing membership applications, renewals, responding to enquiries, maintaining membership data and helping ICOM UK to improve our membership systems and processes. 

Salary: £28,000 FTE (£22,400 pro rata) 
30 hours per week (0.8 FTE) 
Permanent | Remote UK-based 
Occasional travel for meetings and events 

We’re looking for someone with excellent administrative and customer service skills, strong attention to detail and confidence using digital systems and databases. Experience in a membership organisation, charity, professional body or the museums/cultural sector would be an advantage. 

Applicants must be based in and have permission to work in the UK. 

This is a rare opportunity to join an international museum sector organisation supporting museum professionals across the UK and the British Overseas Territories. 

Closing date: 9am on Monday 7 September 2026. 

How to apply: 

To apply for the role, please submit your application by email to: info@icomuk.org with ‘MEMBERSHIP OFFICER’ as the subject.

Please include: 

The deadline for applications is: 9am on Monday 7 September 2026 

If you would like an informal conversation about the role in advance of making an application, please contact ICOM UK’s Co-Chair, Claire Messenger, using the email address below: 

Claire Messenger:  Co-Chair2@icomuk.org