Birmingham Museum Feasibility Study Business Planner, Market Researcher, Governance, and Fundraising advisor

Overall Feasibility Study Deliverables The feasibility study will: 1. Articulate the vision and audience manifesto for a museum that seeks to address a new model in mass participation. 2. Set out the objectives, function and purpose of the museum and other manifestation of audience-centered engagement with science and industry and wider subjects (see Vision). 3. Develop a clear brief of requirements for the new museum and its development, that is audience centered. 4. Establish the business case and governance framework in which to develop, deliver, and operate the new offer, helping BMT, SMG, and BCC explore potential partnership models. 5. Identify and test locations for new physical space(s) and preferred option(s), considering both new build and the repurposing of an existing site. 6. Develop indicative costs and programme for delivery (inc. operational model and costs) for the new museum. 7. Provide a package of information, including visuals, to enable advocacy of the project with stakeholders and potential funders. 8. Provide the necessary information to determine a way forward, identifying the next steps to enable the development to progress. This procurement process is for the role of the Business Planner, Market Researcher, Governance, and Fundraising adviser to deliver the above. It will be specifically responsible for deliverables 3 and 4, with input and feeding into the other deliverables, responsible to others.