Samuel Rowlands Email & Phone Number

Bristol, England, Gb

Wales, United Kingdom

Consultancy enabling positive change in cultural organisations primarily in Wales.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

England, United Kingdom

South West

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Effective management of the UK national standards scheme for museums and galleries, including significant contribution to a review and redevelopment of the Accreditation scheme requirements 2009-11Planning and transfer of Scheme to new management organisation, including development of a new cost effective delivery model with increased local impactDevelopment of new assessment and quality assurance model, recruitment of new assessment teamSuccessful business interventions within local government and not-for-profit organisations, supporting restructuring and business realignment in collaboration with colleagues and external stakeholdersSignificant experience advising museums approaching disposals from their collections, lead officer for financially motivated sales.Strategic partnership working with UK devolved administrations (Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland)Management of a distributed national team of office team, contractors, partners and volunteers Advisor to senior colleagues within UK national museums regarding national standards and improvementCo-ordination of a national network of professional volunteers providing specialist support to third sector charitable organisationsRegular invited public speaker at local, regional & national conferencesProject lead working with partner organisation redeveloping, launching and evaluating knowledge base and skills bank web resourceSecretariat to the independent Accreditation Committee, coordinating and supporting a network of senior museum professionals and advising the company CEO on appointments.Effective financial management and planning of operational budgetArts Council representative to Ministry of Defence Heritage Branch

Supporting museums meet minimum national standards in operation and care of collections. Coordinated Curatorial Adviser Network. Assessed applications to the Accreditation Scheme.

Publicity, marketing, volunteer coordination and development, learning delivery to 4-18's, events and exhibitions.

Pg Dip, Heritage Management

Ba (Hons), Ancient History & Archaeology

Activities and Societies: Peter Gelling Library, Old Joes, Arch Soc, BUTTS