Job Opportunity: Gardener

Join Our Garden Green Team as a Part Time Gardener!

Are you passionate about plants, heritage landscapes and creating beautiful outdoor spaces? We’re looking for a dedicated part time Gardener to join our vibrant Garden Team at Brighton & Hove Museums.

This is a unique chance to play a key role in caring for some of the city’s most iconic and historically significant gardens. The Royal Pavilion Garden is at the heart of our work. With a £6.2 million National Lottery Heritage Fund bid recently submitted, this is an especially exciting moment to help shape its restoration and future.

You’ll also work across the gardens at Preston Manor, including its Edwardian Walled Garden and peaceful wildlife-rich spaces. With opportunities for future development, community partnerships, and creative collaboration with historians, artists and museum professionals, this role offers far more than traditional gardening.

As part of our team, you’ll help conserve, preserve and enhance our outdoor environments, while also contributing to research that influences how visitors experience these historic spaces. Access to extensive archives and historical material makes this an ideal role for someone who loves horticulture and history.

What you’ll be doing

• Keeping our gardens looking their best through high quality maintenance: mowing, pruning, weeding and caring for herbaceous plants and shrubs.
• Working alongside and guiding volunteers and apprentices.
• Engaging with the public—answering questions and supporting tours as a friendly, knowledgeable ambassador for our gardens.

If you’re enthusiastic, collaborative and inspired by the idea of working within a museum landscape rich in stories, heritage and natural beauty, we’d love to hear from you.

If you would like to have an informal discussion regarding this role, please contact Rob Boyle, Head Gardener at rob.boyle@rpmt.org.uk

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status or other category protected by law.

Please note that this role does not meet the requirement for the UK Visa and Immigration (UKVI) Points based Immigration System. Successful candidates will need to evidence that they have the right to work in the UK.

Ready to apply?

To apply, please submit the following  to recruitment@rpmt.org.uk

• A written statement detailing your relevant skills and experience against the essential criteria outlined in the Job Description Person Specification (max 2 sides of A4)
• A copy of your CV
• A completed application pack and equalities form

Find out more about Working for BHM.

Closing date for applications: 5pm, Thursday 9 April 2026