Museum Development Collections Officer - Leicestershire, United Kingdom - Leicestershire County Council

Description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: Leicestershire County Council, County Hall, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 6RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Grade 11 £37,410 (scp 27) to £40,083 (scp 30) FTE (Pro Rata for part time)

Working Hours: Part Time – 22.2 hours per week (0.6FTE) flexible working

Contract Type: Fixed term to 31 March Potential for extension to 2027 pending outcome confirmation of funding extension)

Closing Date: 20th May 23:59pm

Interview Date: Wednesday 5th June

Museum Development Midlands (MDM) is looking for an experienced, proactive museum collections professional to take on the role of Museum Development Collections Officer , supporting the delivery of collections development activity for the Arts Council England (ACE) funded MDM programme, jointly hosted by Leicestershire County Council and Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.

About the Role

As Museum Development Collections Officer, you will lead on the development, delivery, promotion and evaluation of a comprehensive training, support and advice programme that meets sector needs. You will coordinate the delivery of the collections management and conservation elements of the data informed MDM Activity Plan, within agreed budgets. Activity is framed around ACE 'Let's Create' strategy Investment Principles and the Museum Accreditation Standard.

You will develop, deliver, and promote a programme of targeted training workshops, development programmes, advice and support, driving improvement and best practice to accredited museums across the Midlands. You will be responsible for delivering agreed areas of the training yourself, and use assigned budgets to source consultants to support with delivering specialist areas of the programme. You will evaluate delivery, using insights to inform programming.

With a strong understanding of the issues and priorities facing the museum sector and its collections, you will provide specialist collections management and development advice and signposting to Midlands accredited museums, and those working towards accreditation. You will respond to direct enquiries and provide information through networks and forums.

You will represent MDM where required at national, regional and local level. You will coordinate agreed regional specialist networks, including the Emergency Response Network.

You will provide advice on collections management and related Museum Accreditation standards. You will give pre-application advice to museums about targeted MDM collections grants and contribute to the MDM grants panel.

About Museum Development Midlands

MDM is funded by Arts Council England (ACE) and delivered in partnership by Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and Leicestershire County Council. MDM builds upon the established track record of both West Midlands Museum Development (WMMD) and Museum Development East Midlands (MDEM), with a strong understanding of the museum sector and trusted relationships with local museums and networks. This post will be employed by Leicestershire County Council but will cover the whole Midlands region.

For more information about MDM please visit

This role will involve Midlands-wide and occasional national travel.

About You

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Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Liz Moran, Midlands Museum Development Manager:

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