Collections Access Officer - Leicester, United Kingdom - Leicester City Council

Leicester City Council
Leicester City Council
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Description

Job details:

Job reference

  • REQ3342
Date posted

  • 24/11/2023
Application closing date

  • 08/12/2023
Location

  • Leicester Museum and Art Gallery
Salary
- £29,777 - £32,076 per year

Package

  • Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement) £43,738
Contractual hours

  • 37
Basis

  • Full time
Job category/type

  • Communications and Marketing
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Collections Access Officer:

Job description

Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent


This is an exciting time to join Leicester Museums & Galleries as a new strategic vision is now in place and several significant capital projects are underway.

Although Leicester is already full of world class art and culture, the city council is committed to growth and the vision is to create experiences that make Leicester truly special.


At Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, the city's flagship museum, we are undertaking a major capital project that will create new galleries, visitor routes and a new café.

A redisplay of the art galleries will bring together a range of artworks including modern art, German Expressionism, and Picasso ceramics.

The café will be relocated to the current Wild Space gallery and a new environmental gallery is planned.


Based at our collections store and Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, you will work to remove our collections prior to works taking place, and prepare objects for the new displays, including helping to install them in the new galleries.

This is a full time, permanent post working 37 hours per week.

You'll also have flexibility in hybrid working, being office based at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery and the ability to work remotely from home.


In addition, you'll be required to travel across the city to contribute to and deliver a range of collections access services and initiatives across all venues, including exhibitions, displays, store tours, handling sessions, activities, publications, digital and online, and for other initiatives, which engage all audiences, city residents, and tourists with Museum Collections.


What you'll be doing
Working with project team members, you'll play a unique role in the creation of the new galleries. You will work to remove objects from the galleries that form part of the project.

Subsequently, you will need prepare objects selected for display, carrying out condition checks, cleaning and basic conservation, completing the required documentation updates and packaging the objects ready for safe transfer to the new galleries.

The work will involve working with external contractors to provide them with the necessary information and details required for them to undertake their roles, e.g.

photographs, provision of dimensions for the creation of display mounts.

The final stages of the project will involve the postholder in unpackaging the objects and placing them in their new cases.

You'll be researching and writing accessible copy as required for the delivery of collections initiatives. This will entail involving people from all backgrounds and abilities with museum collections.


Working closely with staff across the Service, especially those in Collections and you'll facilitate the physical creation and delivery of collections initiatives including organising activities, creating displays, and liaising with internal Exhibition and Displays colleagues, designers, and external contractors as required.


What you'll need


You'll have experience of ensuring collections are accessible and engaging to audiences, practical experience of providing museum collections care and undertaking museum documentation for varied collections (in either paid or volunteer capacity), Experience of working directly with a wide range of audiences, and ages, and abilities and experience of producing accessible content interpreting museum collections and experience of supervising and developing other people.

You'll have the ability to problem-solve and enjoy inspiring others.

As an excellent communicator, you'll delight in working with a wide range of stakeholders, including community groups, visitors and non-visitors, volunteers, and people from all different backgrounds.

In addition, you'll have good attention to detail and accuracy, and the ability to deliver under pressure and to tight deadlines.


What we can offer you


As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance.

You'll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working.

We'll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities.

In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

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