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Documentation Officer
The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a unique attraction in south east London where world cultures and the natural world are brought together for everyone to enjoy. The Museum holds internationally important collections of anthropology and musical instruments, as well as a popular natural history gallery and Aquarium. The 16 acres of beautiful Gardens feature a tropical Butterfly House and offer stunning views across London. We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Documentation Officer. Are you passionate about museum collections and making them accessible to a wide audience? If so you could play a key role in the recording and sharing of the Horniman’s collections. Your main responsibilities will be the documentation of the Horniman’s collections in the Horniman’s collections management database (Mimsy) and to support other Horniman staff with training and written procedures in doing the same. You will play a key role in facilitating the acquisition and disposals processes, as well as helping with exhibitions, research and other uses of the collections. You will be the first line of support and maintenance for the contents and use of Mimsy. The Horniman will be paying particular attention to its Natural Science and Living collections over the coming years. Your experience of documenting these kind of museum collections will be very valuable. As the Horniman rises to the challenge of digital transformation, you will have opportunities to explore and influence new practices in the digital documentation and sharing of the Horniman’s collections. You will be familiar with Collections Trust Spectrum procedures and their practical application, have good object handling, packing and marking skills and have strong skills in information and data management in a museum setting. As the lead documentation professional in the Knowledge and Information team you will have the confidence to manage your time and activities on a daily basis while meeting objectives set by the whole team and the Horniman. Your ability to document your skills in your supporting statement against the requirements set out in the Job Description for this role, as evidenced in your experience, is your opportunity to demonstrate your suitability for this role. The closing date for completed applications is 10am on Monday 15 August 2022.
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 30 August 2022. The Horniman is an equal opportunities employer and we value and celebrate diversity. We want to better represent the communities in which we work but recognise that there is still much work to do in this area. We welcome and encourage all applicants and particularly encourage you to apply if you are from a community that is often disadvantaged by society or of ethnically diverse background.
Public Programming Manager
Role purpose:
To create a step change in Earth Trust’s public programming offer, delivering experiences and events that connect our visitors with nature and inspire an understanding of their environment, their place in it and their role in caring for it. Taking the lead in driving collaboration in public programming to effectively deliver our narrative and stories to a range of audiences, both on site and digitally, while contributing to income generation.
This will include responsibility for:
o Devising and delivering audience-led and participatory experiences and visitor programming across Earth Trust’s spaces, including its digital space
o Respond to social research, building evidence, delivering public events that contribute to Earth Trust strategies, projects and campaigns
o Thinking creatively about suppliers and partners, creating a network of performance artists, filmmakers, storytellers, environmental experts and many others that will help you deliver a programme of events unique to Earth Trust
o Managing ticketing and all event logistics o Interpreting and sharing audience insight, championing the audience voice and collaborating with colleagues to ensure audiences needs are met
o Embedding access, equality, inclusion and participation within the public programmes, both online and physical experiences
o Embedding evaluation in the planning and delivery cycle to ensure feedback from each event is captured and used to continuously improve the programme
o Monitoring innovation and best practice in events organisation and management to ensure that Earth Trust’s events are creative, engaging and efficient
About us:
Earth Trust is an environmental learning charity with 40 years’ experience in caring for and inspiring others with the natural green spaces. Together with our supporters, Earth Trust is guardian of some extremely special and inspiring places full of nature and heritage. We care for 500 hectares of woodland, farmland, wildflower meadows and wetlands, which receive 200,000 visits a year. We use these amazing places to engage and inspire people and to demonstrate nature-based solutions to climate, biodiversity and public health crises, that we hope others will take and use elsewhere.
Data Manager
We are seeking to appoint a Data Manager experienced in data cleaning tools and methodologies to support the Digitisation Project, cleaning Herbarium and Fungarium specimen data and importing specimen records into Kew’s collection management system.
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: generating complex queries of large data sets with appropriate technical skills for the efficient manipulation and transfer of data; and a competent understanding of taxonomy, nomenclature and geography.
Part-time hours per week 1 x 36 hrs per week & 1 x 18 hrs week
The salary will be £26,500 - £28,912 per annum (pro rata), depending on skills and experience.
This role is based at Kew with the option of regular home working, subject to operational requirements.
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.