Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

We are seeking a Visitor Programmes Manager! This is an exciting opportunity for a visionary producer with experience in delivering large-scale, high-profile outdoor programmes and events. Whether it’s developing and delivering dynamic art installations, creating festivals that draw large numbers of visitors or designing engaging indoor programming within iconic Grade-listed spaces, you’ll bring ideas to life that delight and inspire our two million annual visitors, extending our reach and delivering large numbers of visitors. To apply, please visit https://ow.ly/tMLy50UOC76

We are seeking a Learning Volunteer Coordinator! Our Learning and Participation department seeks to inspire people to protect the natural world, train the next generation of experts, and extend our reach, ensuring that our Gardens and wider work are accessible for everyone. You will play a key role in delivering that mission by supporting and growing our vibrant learning volunteer programme, and contributing to the Operations and Projects team’s work providing effective operational support to programmes across the department. To apply, please visit https://ow.ly/HJri50UOBCr

We are seeking a Technical Manager! You will be responsible for maintaining and operating facilities and equipment, carrying out specialist techniques, providing specialist training to staff, students, and visitors, ordering consumables, and managing budgets and finances. You will work closely with the Research community and leads of business areas, including Estates, visitor operations and other colleagues in the delivery of world class teaching and research infrastructure operations. The role will require a culture of continuous improvement within the operational and research technical team and will entail significant change management. To apply, please visit https://ow.ly/hWQS50UOBk1

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We are seeking a skilled horticulturist to join our team in Kew’s Princess of Wales Conservatory, our most climatically diverse display glasshouse. The role will involve the cultivation and maintenance of our varied and valuable plant collections and displays. Kew has an international reputation for the diversity and quality of its living collections, and you will help ensure that these collections are maintained for visitor enjoyment, conservation, and education into the future. The collections include plants of high decorative, conservation and scientific value, and your job will include keeping accurate records to help maintain these values. You will also be part of the team responsible for delivering Kew’s annual and renowned Orchid Festival. There will be plenty of opportunity to learn new skills through working within the wider multi-disciplinary glasshouse collections team. To apply, please visit https://ow.ly/3GY050UOAY8

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated communicator to join us as a Communications Officer! The outputs you produce will highlight the impact of Kew’s collections, create opportunity for novel science projects outside of Kew, attract interest from the science and research communities, and enable new funding sources to be secured to support the digitisation of our world-leading collection of plant and fungal specimens. If you are interested to learn more about this role, please visit https://ow.ly/PNCk50UOAL5

The Marianne North Gallery has officially reopened! 🎨 The gallery was closed throughout January so that the team could complete essential conservation work and detailed assessments of this incredible collection of oil paintings, which have been at Kew for over 140 years. We're delighted that the doors are open again for visitors to learn about the life and legacy of this incomparable artist. 💚 Have you been lucky enough to visit the gallery in person?

🎓 Exciting Opportunity Alert! 🎓 We still have three fully funded PhD studentships in collaboration with leading institutions available for application! Dive into groundbreaking research and contribute to our understanding of biodiversity and cultural heritage 👇 🌳 How can storytelling reshape our understanding of landscapes? Explore narrative strategies to connect communities with the Sussex Weald, bridging cultural heritage and ecological sustainability. 📍University of Sussex 📅 Deadline: 17 February 2025 🔗 👉 https://ow.ly/1Wli50UMsXG 🌿 How did women shape biodiversity research in the early 20th century? Dive into the history of the Kew Fungarium (1900–1950) and uncover how gender influenced biodiversity research, linking historical narratives to modern ecology. 📍 York University 📅 Deadline: 2 February 2025 🔗 👉 https://ow.ly/SRGS50UMsXF 🚢 How did the Chinese Maritime Customs Service shape economic botany? Investigate the intersections of trade, plants, and global networks through the lens of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. 📍Royal Holloway, University of London 📅 Deadline: 19 February 2025 🔗 👉 https://ow.ly/Q7Cr50UMsXE 📢 Don't miss these opportunities to make an impact in interdisciplinary research. Apply today! 🌟 #PhD #Research #Studentships #AcademicOpportunities

Happy 143rd birthday to Virginia Woolf! Did you know the famed author spent a decade living near the Gardens and took a lot of inspiration from them in her work? It's clear she loved Kew from the first paragraph of her short story, Kew Gardens (1919): "The petals were voluminous enough to be stirred by the summer breeze, and when they moved, the red, blue and yellow lights passed one over the other, staining an inch of the brown earth beneath with a spot of the most intricate colour." 💚

The RSPB's #BigGardenBirdWatch is here! How many of these beautiful birds have you seen at Kew? Let us know below! 🐦👇