Responsible to: The post-holder will report to the Senior Curator – Mollusca, in the Department of Natural Sciences.
Main purpose of the post: To help deliver the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) funded project “Brought to the Surface: a New Beginning for Freshwater Snail Identification” as part of the project team. To assist in devising and delivering both the public engagement, and curatorial and research aspects of the project. By bringing this specialist subject to a wider audience, to help ensure that the project outputs and outcomes are achieved to time and budget.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
Job Specific
1. To help deliver the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) funded project “Brought to the Surface: a New Beginning for Freshwater Snail Identification” as part of the project team.
2. To assist in devising, delivering and evaluating 5 practical identification and user-testing workshops for the public at venues around Wales.
3. To help engage public audiences and stakeholders with the project and this aspect of Wales’ natural heritage at other appropriate events.
4. To produce, edit and help lay out specimen images and maps for use in different identification materials including a comprehensive, user-tested field guide to the UK’s freshwater gastropods.
5. To contribute to the identification, curation and digitisation of the freshwater Mollusca Collection including historical material and that collected through fieldwork as part of the project.
6. To contribute content about the project and subject to a temporary display, social media, and the Museum’s website, working with staff in other Departments as appropriate.
7. To undertake and support collections-based, taxonomic research on selected species under the guidance of the Senior Curator, to increase specialist knowledge relevant to the Mollusca Collection and the project.
8. To help encourage and supervise the work of volunteers as part of the project.
9. To assist with reporting and the evaluation of the project against HLF’s and Amgueddfa Cymru’s criteria, and those of the partner organisations.