Digital Collections Officer - Newark-on-Trent, United Kingdom - The National Holocaust Centre and Museum

The National Holocaust Centre and Museum

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Newark-on-Trent, United Kingdom

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Description

The National Holocaust Centre and Museum

Job Description & Person Specification:
Project Curator

Job title:
Digital Collections Officer

Contract:
Fixed term contract for 2.5 years

Hours:37 hours per week

Salary:
£25k - £28k per annum dependent on skills and experience

Annual Leave:25 days plus 8 statutory Bank Holidays per annum

Reports to:
Chief Curator

Location:
The National Holocaust Centre and Museum, Laxton, Nottinghamshire
NG22 0PA.

About Us
The National Holocaust Centre and Museum (NHCM) is an award-winning Arts Council
England and National Lottery Heritage Fund-supported nationally styled museum in a beautiful rural Nottinghamshire location. We have two permanent museum exhibitions, stunning sculpture and memorial rose gardens and sector
- leading interactive museum and online experiences. We welcome members of the public and school groups to learn about the roots of prejudice and discrimination and what we can do to be upstanders today. To further expand our reach, we have a growing range of outreach programmes and digital offerings. At our heart is a family of Holocaust survivors whose testimonies and artefacts form a significant national collection that we continue to grow, ensuring their voices are heard for generations to come. Our primary audience is school pupils, but we are currently working to grow our non
- school audiences.

The NHCM recently secured funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for the first stage in a site-wide capital redevelopment programme that will see us refresh our award-winning exhibition The Journey with new digital content, artefacts and interpretation, create a new Digital Broadcast Hub to support our digital outreach, create new learning spaces with improved facilities and access, and develop new learning and volunteering programmes to build community relationships and grow our audiences.

Underpinning all these aspirations is our ability to develop, maximise and make accessible our unique collection, particularly the digital assets that enable us to engage visitors on site and reach global audiences online.

This investment will enable us to develop the potential of our unique grounds and outdoor spaces to support learning, participation and volunteering, working towards the NHCM's mission to create a community of critical thinkers and building on the family atmosphere upon which the museum was founded.

Job purpose and requirements

We are looking to appoint a passionate and enthusiastic Project Curator to take the lead on managing, preserving and making accessible our significant digital collection of Holocaust survivor testimony.

This includes both digital and digitised collections,
AV and time-based media.

The postholder will be the professional lead for digital preservation and digital asset management at the museum, responsible for managing the museum's digital collections, keeping abreast of and implementing best practice standards, and for making the collections accessible to a wide public.

This will involve undertaking collections-based research and working with colleagues to provide content for our learning programmes, on-site interpretation, online events and website.

You will develop and expand the collection, working with the development director to identify funding opportunities and developing and delivering your own projects to grow the museum's assets and maximise their use in the service of our mission.

The postholder will assist in raising the profile of the museum's collections nationally and internationally through advocacy, events, networking, and other onsite and online activities.

Main responsibilities

To manage and document the museum's digital collections in line with best practice standards.
To research and analyse the museum's extensive collection of testimony to determine what content is appropriate for public use, meeting legal, ethical and quality requirements and consulting with audiences to better understand what material people would like to engage with and how.
To develop a searchable database of digital testimony, ensuring all testimony is saved to one accessible filetype.
To extend access to and promote learning and engagement with the collections by providing colleagues with collectionbased content for a wide range of programming, events and activities.
To develop and expand the collection. This will include fundraising for collectionbased projects and identifying opportunities to collect new oral history testimonies in line with the museum's current Collection

Management Policy.

To secure and manage the rights in the museum's digitised and born digital collections.
To contribute expertise and knowledge to the NHCM's regular Accreditation returns to ensure the museum continues to reach and exceed the collection management standard required by the Accreditation scheme.
To research and develop a digital exhibitions programme to expand the