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Digitisation Supplier Relations & Operations Manager
We are now looking to appoint an outstanding individual as our new Digitisation Supplier Relations & Operations Manager. Reporting to the Research Leader and a key member of our senior Digitisation Project team, you will be responsible for the operational and logistic leadership, management, and delivery of the digitisation of the herbarium and Fungarium specimens, leading on the Supplier relationships (Transcription and Imaging Supplier) to ensure contract obligations, targets and quality assurance requirements are achieved on time and within budget.
You will focus on optimising the interactions across the team and the supplier to support the effective delivery of the Digitisation Project, cultivating a positive, collaborative, and innovative team, that will continuously strive to reach and exceed quality and quantitative outcomes.
This is an exciting and challenging role and will suit those with a successful track record of operational/logistical and leadership together with proven experience of contract/ supplier management within organisations of similar scale and complexity. Likewise, you will bring experience of effective financial management and resource planning as well as a track record of leading transformational change and ensuring robust project governance. You will also bring outstanding interpersonal skills with a proven ability to engage and inspire diverse teams and forge collaborative and productive relationships with stakeholders and colleagues at all levels, across the organisation and externally.
Essential skills and experience required for this role include, educated to degree level or equivalent, experience of digitisation projects within a science / museum environment, experience of managing supplier contracts and teams, good knowledge of Microsoft Excel skills & knowledge of reporting tool, and excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
The salary will be £38,200 - £45,404 per annum (pro rata), depending on skills and experience.
Quality Assurance Officer
We are seeking to appoint three individuals with high attention to detail and experience of transcribing and imaging natural history or museum specimens to assist with the development and documentation of quality assurance protocols. They will also be responsible for reporting where digital outputs of Herbarium or Fungarium specimens do not meet agreed standards.
Essential skills and experience required for this role include: the ability to check image and data quality against defined standards; the ability to write protocols; a competent understanding of taxonomy, nomenclature, and geography; and excellent IT skills.
The salary will be £26,500 - £28,912 per annum (pro rata), depending on skills and experience.
Quality Assurance Officer Team Leader
We are seeking to appoint an individual with high attention to detail and experience of transcribing and imaging natural history or museum specimens to report where digital outputs of Herbarium or Fungarium specimens do not meet agreed standards. They will supervise and train a team of digitisation officers and must ensure the work they produce meet required standards.
RBG Kew are currently recruiting staff to work on an exciting and unique project to digitise Kew’s 8.5 million plant and fungal specimens and create a complete catalogue of our internationally significant collections, making specimen records and images freely available online and accessible to researchers across the globe.
The outcome of this project will provide a unique, world-leading resource making accessible data from more than 260 years of scientific exploration, placing them at the centre of efforts to combat urgent global challenges such as habitat degradation, climate change and human health.
In addition, RBG Kew are recruiting staff to support the implementation of a new collections management system to ensure efficient and effective integrated management of the Science and Living Collections and the data describing them.
The Integrated Collections Management System will allow more efficient tracking of the use of specimens to meet legislative requirements concerning access to genetic resources and benefit sharing, including the Nagoya Protocol of the Convention on Biological Diversity and plant health legislation.
Essential skills and experience required for this role include: the ability to check image and data quality against defined standards; a competent understanding of taxonomy, nomenclature and geography; excellent IT skills; and an ability to support, manage and motivate staff to achieve personal and team targets.
The salary will be £26,500 - £28,912 per annum (pro rata), depending on skills and experience.
Senior Curator/Curator, British & Irish Seed Plants
Embedded within the Algae, Fungi and Plants Collections Division, the Curator/Senior Curator, British and Irish Herbarium, will ensure best practice in collections care and development and provide a world-class collection of natural history specimens with specimens acquired, curated and used and made available to facilitate research, teaching, training, reference and exhibitions. The post will be appointed at Curator or Senior Curator level, commensurate to the level of the chosen applicant.
For appointment as a Curator, the applicant will have expertise in the identification/taxonomy of British and Irish seed plants and will be an emerging expert in collections-based science, demonstrating ability in scholarship (e.g., taxonomy, systematics, organismal biology).
For appointment as a Senior Curator, the applicant will be a recognised expert in the identification/taxonomy of British and Irish seed plants, with a track record of scientific scholarship (e.g., systematics, evolution, organismal biology) and knowledge and experience of herbarium collections management. An additional management responsibility allowance (£2,124) may also be available for a suitably qualified candidate at Senior Curator level.
Curatorial Assistant Botany
Our people are at the heart of National Museums Liverpool. Colleagues from across the NML team make a difference every day, creating memorable experiences for everyone and challenging expectations. We pride ourselves on being a place for everyone, but we are always aiming higher, aspiring to be representative of the communities we serve. Through our people, we are building a culture which embeds trust, respect and inclusion and an organisation in which people are engaged and empowered to enable National Museums Liverpool to evolve. You could be just the right person to join us.
We currently have the post(s) of Curatorial Assistant Botany available.
Reporting to the Lead Curator of Botany, Geology & Science you’ll be working with World Museum’s nationally important botany collections.
This post sits within the Botany, Geology and Science section of the World Museum curatorial department, where the post-holder will be working closely with the Assistant Curator of Botany working towards digitising the preserved Bryophyte collections held in the herbarium, to make them globally accessible. The World Museum curatorial team is passionate about the collections and the disciplines they work in – do you want to join us?
To be successful in this role, you will have a broad knowledge of botany and a willingness to work across the entire botany collection’s chronological remit and activity to support the core day-to-day work of the team. You will be used to object handling within a museum or heritage environment, with experience of using and updating collections management systems and have a good understanding of museum documentation standards.
Senior Curator Botany and Biodiversity Coordinator
Amgueddfa Cymru holds the largest and most comprehensive collection of Welsh botany, geology, and zoology and botany specimens in the world, and this provides a unique record of the natural history of Wales, charting evolutionary and environmental change. We use these collections to deliver the Vision commitments, with particular focus on inclusivity, protecting the environment and digital presence. All of our collections belong to the people of Wales, and we want to find new ways in which we can make them a relevant and useful resource for everyone to explore and enjoy.
The museum is also home to Welsh National Herbarium which contains botanical specimens from Wales and across the world, including the British Bryophyte Society Collection. This is of international importance and represents over 300 years of collecting. These collections underpin our understanding, maintenance and enhancement of biodiversity in Wales and contribute to global research in taxonomy. Amgueddfa Cymru has eight sites across the whole of Wales, each with its distinctive natural characteristics. This role will support the development of a better understanding of these sites and seek to engage with a range of communities in exploring biodiversity and how we can work together to protect and restore nature.
You will play a major role in delivering the Museum’s goal to safeguard and increase biodiversity across the Museum’s eight sites, by planning and co-ordinating field activity to produce a rolling programme of biodiversity surveys. This will also include the involvement of community groups and special interest groups. You will be supported by the Acting Head of Natural Sciences, who will lead on the biodiversity component of the Museums Land & Nature Management Plan.
As part of the Botany Section of six staff, you will work with the Curator of Lower Plants to ensure that this collection is curated and cared for to maximise access and wider use, and through this deliver the Amgueddfa Cymru commitments. You will use your taxonomic expertise, to develop the lower plant collection though collaborative research projects. This will ensure the collection remains relevant as an environmental reference resource. Training will be provided if your taxonomic experience has previously been with higher plants. You will develop new partnerships with relevant bodies to promote use of the collection and maintain existing ones.
You will take part in public events, activities and engage with social media to promote the collection and the Natural Sciences department. Reporting to Acting Head of Natural Sciences
Senior Curator Entomology
Amgueddfa Cymru holds the largest and most comprehensive collection of Welsh botany, geology, and zoology and botany specimens in the world, and this provides a unique record of the natural history of Wales, charting evolutionary and environmental change. We use these collections to deliver the Vision commitments, with particular focus on inclusivity, protecting the environment and digital presence. All of our collections belong to the people of Wales, and we want to find new ways in which we can make them a relevant and useful resource for everyone to explore and enjoy.
The entomology collection is among the largest in the UK with over a million pinned specimens. It is a comprehensive and irreplaceable resource of biodiversity information. We also hold non-British material of international significance. These collections underpin our understanding, maintenance and enhancement of biodiversity in Wales and contribute to global research in taxonomy’.
Amgueddfa Cymru has 8 sites across the whole of Wales, each with its distinctive natural characteristics. This role will support the development of a better understanding of these sites and seek to engage with a range of communities in exploring biodiversity and how we can work together to protect and restore nature.
Your work will be focused on increasing access to the entomology collection, both physical and digital, by a wider range of users. This will include taking a lead in the Natural Sciences team in progressing the digitization of the entomology collection and promoting it through social media. It will also involve developing communitybased entomology projects and participating in events to enthuse people about nature and the environment. You will use your entomology taxonomic expertise to; develop the collection though collaborative research projects, supervise students, and develop partnership projects with other entomological-focussed bodies and contribute to biodiversity surveys of our sites. You will use these various projects and collaborations to ensure the collection stays relevant as an environmental reference
resource.
You will work with the Senior Curator Entomology (Wales) to maintain the collection to the highest standards, and act as Collection Manager. This post currently reports to the Acting Head of Natural Sciences.
Curatorial and Collections Assistant (Zoology)
We are looking for someone to join our team of 5 Curatorial & Collections Assistants working within our museums and collections. During the Autumn and Spring terms this post focuses on supporting teaching and research using the Grant Museum collection. At other times the role works cross a range of collections management projects and initiatives in all UCL Culture museums and collections. The right person will be practical with a ‘can do’ attitude and is looking for a role that will allow them to develop their experience in collections care alongside helping to deliver an excellent service to academics, students and researchers.
UCL Culture is a multidisciplinary team committed to connecting the world with UCL through innovative programming and engagement activities. We use our assets in the form of collections, museums, theatre and most importantly our people and know how to mobilise the UCL community, inspiring them to engage people with their research and their research with people. We amplify their work through the delivery of compelling and coherent programmes of events, public engagement activities, public art, performance, exhibitions and permanent museum displays to create cutting edge cultural experiences. We collaborate, light sparks, disrupt and provoke. We use our objects, insights and expertise to reframe questions and surface new ideas. We believe in the power of open because open minds see further.
The Operations team within UCL Culture directly manage our venues (UCL Art Museum, Grant Museum of Zoology, Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology, Bloomsbury Theatre) customer interactions, administration and collections. The Operations team sets the standard in these areas to ensure we maintain a quality, compliant and professional service-orientated approach responding to UCL and UCL Culture strategies.
This post is a full-time open ended appointment.
Curator, Fossil Reptiles
Embedded within the Vertebrates & Anthropology Curatorial Division, this is an important role in a world-renowned institution with a strong scientific mission and public profile.
The successful applicant will join a large science group composed of approximately 300 scientists, in an institution that houses some of the largest, most significant scientific collections in the world. The Museum is also home to an internationally important natural history library, a suite of advanced analytical and imaging facilities, and offers the opportunity to communicate science to national and international audiences.
The Curator will be responsible for acquiring, curating and making specimens within their area of responsibility in Fossil Reptiles available to facilitate research, teaching, and exhibitions. These collections are frequently accessed by internal and external researchers and are heavily used for the NHM’s public engagement activities, including permanent exhibitions, temporary and touring exhibitions, and outreach events for the general public and media.
Applications are open to candidates in the field of vertebrate palaeontology, with particular expertise in an area relevant to fossil reptiles
Senior Curator, Fossil Mammals
Embedded within the Vertebrates & Anthropology Curatorial Division, the Senior Curator will ensure best practice in caring for a world-class collection of fossil mammal specimens. Specimens are to be acquired, curated and made available to facilitate research, teaching, training, reference and exhibitions. An established or emerging expert in their field of collections-based science, the Senior Curator demonstrates a high level of science scholarship. The Senior Curator will have day to day responsibility for the fossil mammal collections. This is an exciting opportunity to integrate curation and collections-based research in one of the World's largest and most important Fossil Mammals collections.