Collections Management Assistant - Windsor, United Kingdom - The Royal Household

The Royal Household
The Royal Household
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Windsor, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Household / Department 1- Royal Collection Trust- Location 1- Windsor Castle- Contract/recruitment type 1- Permanent- Starting salary 1- £27,000 per annum- Hours of work hours per week- About the role 1
It's documenting a collection for future generations

  • It's feeling proud of the part you play. It's the joy of caring for one of the world's great collections. This is what makes working for Royal Collection Trust so different. In quality and diversity, the collection of works of art in Royal Collection Trust's care is breathtaking._


As part of our Collections Management team, you'll help document this extraordinary collection, ensuring the Collections Management database has every item recorded accurately.


Collaborating with a range of teams within Royal Collection Trust and the Royal Household, you'll assist with custodial control across Windsor: inventory and condition checking, cross-referencing historic inventories and updating locations and conservation information on the Collections Management System.

You'll also support keeping the Salvage priorities folders up to date.


Working with a range of teams around Windsor Castle, you'll collaborate and provide support to conservators and contractors during the annual property works and collections care programmes.


  • About you 1With relevant qualifications or equivalent practical experience in a museum or collection environment, and a broad interest in the history of art, in particular Decorative Arts, British and Royal history, you're ready to make the next step in your career.


You'll have a real passion for discovering the history and context of the Royal Collection and developing a career in Collections Management.

With great IT skills, accuracy and a real eye for detail, you'll have experience of database systems.

Organised and self-managed, you're able to deliver projects either independently or with the team.


As an excellent communicator with influencing skills and a natural team player, you'll enjoy working with colleagues across departments to achieve high standards, collaboratively solving problems and providing excellent service, even when it comes to repetitive tasks.

What's more, you'll understand the challenges of cataloguing an historic collection, and be eager to take advantage of the many learning opportunities that the collection presents.


Benefits
We know that to deliver our best work; we need to feel at our best.

That's why at the Royal Household we offer a generous benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and life priorities.


Enjoy 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days (plus bank holidays) dependent on the length of time you have worked for us.


Our excellent non-contributory pension plan (we'll contribute 15% and you can contribute more if you wish) is highly valued by our employees, as is complimentary lunch on-site to keep you fuelled throughout the day.


We also offer a range of leave options to support your life priorities, such as parental pay and leave and volunteering days, as well as benefits to support your physical and mental wellbeing.


Other perks include 20% off at our Royal Collection Trust Shops and complimentary admission tickets across all our locations, along with many more exclusive employee discounts.

Find out more about the full range of benefits available to our employees here.
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