Assistant Curator - Wroughton, United Kingdom - Science Museum Group

Science Museum Group

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Wroughton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Salary
£22,841 per annum

Contractual hours
35

Basis
Full time

Based at
Science and Innovation Park

Job category/type
Contract - Full Time, Dept. - Collections, Dept. - Curatorial, Tenure - Fixed Term, Type - Employee

Date posted
22/03/2024

Job reference
SMG02824

***Job description

INTERNAL VACANCY ONLY
Do you want to research our stored collection and share stories about objects to engage our audiences? Are you a good communicator who can collaborate with others effectively?

About Us

The NCC Collections Consolidation Project builds on work developed through the One Collection programme, SMG's major strategic initiative to reimagine how its worldleading collection of objects relating to science, technology, transport, medicine, and the media is cared for, accessed and shared. The Consolidation project will deliver further consolidation of space, hazard resolution and improved documentation, across hangars at the National Collections Centre.

We are now recruiting for an Assistant Curator based at the National Collections Centre at the Science and Innovation Park in Wroughton, Swindon.

This is a full-time, fixed term contract until March 2025, working 35 hours per week.

About the role

As Assistant Curator you will work with the Curator Team Leader across the collections, providing research and practical collections support to the Consolidation Project team. In liaison with the SMG Curators, you will identify and catalogue objects, improve existing records, and undertake tasks towards acquisition and disposal. You may work with volunteers and will help to engage our audiences with the project and the collection.

You will carry out research towards object provenance, identification, and improved cataloguing. In addition to sharing collections stories through Collections Online, social media, our blog, the SMG Journal, and elsewhere.

About you

Crucially, you will have good research skills and the ability to use your good written and verbal communication skills and creative approach to engage our audiences with stored collections.

You will also be able to organise and prioritise work in order to meet deadlines.

Applying

What we offer

Joining us as an employee, you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a worldclass museum group. We understand that work/life balance and wellbeing is crucial to our colleagues, so we offer the perks listed below, as well as support for things that happen in life such as parental and adoption leave, sickness, and career breaks.
Support with personal and professional development
27 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
Employee assistance programme
Enhanced contributory pension
Unmind App and other wellbeing support
Interestfree loans
Days Out discounts
Health & Dental Insurance

Open for All is one of the Science Museum Group's five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to foster a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge, and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation, capable to continue to
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