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Librarian
LIBRARIAN
(Full-time, permanent post)
Salary: £30,000 p.a. with a generous workplace pension scheme
Job description
The Linnean Society of London is a charity, the world’s oldest extant biological society, and has in its care several scientifically important collections, most notably those of the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. The Collections include a library, archives and biological specimens, and have been awarded Designation status by Arts Council England.
Working as part of a small Collections team, as the only librarian the post holder will be responsible for the printed collections and support the Head of Collections. The Librarian will have the opportunity to work with a rich and unique collection and will be responsible for the smooth running of all aspects of the Library, including:
• Supporting the research requirements of Library users;
• Cataloguing and classifying Library material, and managing the operation and development of the library management system (Heritage Cirqa);
• Coordinating and working alongside the Library’s long-standing volunteers, some of whom are central to cataloguing work;
• Overseeing the migration of records to the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase in the near future;
• Acting as Administrator for the Linnaeus Link Project, which includes attending the Linnaeus Link and European Botanical and Horticultural Libraries meetings yearly;
• Getting involved in the Society’s charitable public engagement and educational activities, including giving tours, creating displays in the Reading Room, and writing blogs.
Further information is available on the Society's website: https://www.linnean.org/the-society/vacancies-and-volunteering
Curator (Collections - Science)
UCL Culture invite applications for the post of Curator (Collections - Science).
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 Museums and Cultural Programming function within UCL Culture is responsible for delivering high quality experiences for staff, students and external audiences using UCL’s rich cultural resources and assets. The main objective of this functional area is to set the standard for using culture as means of interrogating and understanding the world around us. The Museums and Cultural Programmes team is responsible for activities ranging from devising innovative object-based learning experiences for UCL students to producing research-driven events and exhibitions for public audiences to developing public art projects that enhance the public realm and local community. An emphasis will be placed on developing programmes that are topical in nature and engage staff, students and external audiences in new and interesting ways.
This post is a fixed term contract for 5 months with the possibility of extension.
Key Requirements
The successful candidate will have a degree in a subject relevant to the collection, or equivalent experience, along with experience of delivering exhibitions, curating collections in a museum environment, and collections care and documentation. They will have excellent team working and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex ideas into accessible information and to engage public audiences with the collections.
Further Details
A job description and further particulars for the position can be accessed below.
Head of Collections & Learning
The National Museum of Ireland is seeking applications from suitable candidates to fill the post of Head of Collections & Learning based in the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7.
The post-holder will form part of the senior management team of the Museum and will contribute to its management and development. He/she will provide leadership and direction on all collections and learning matters and will ensure implementation of the National Museum of Ireland’s strategic plan and priorities.
The post holder will have overall responsibility for line managing the collections and learning staff (currently numbering 57). He/she will manage 9 heads of department directly comprising four curatorial departments (Art & Industry, Irish Antiquities, Irish Folk life and Natural History), the Conservation, Education and Registration Departments as well as Graphic Design and Photography.
He/she will ensure the collections are managed, made accessible, interpreted and researched, realising their education and learning potential. He/she will also, as may be required, have responsibility for exhibition planning and development as well as photography and graphic design.
Specimen Preparer
We are recruiting for a Specimen Preparer to join the Specimen Preparation Team within the Science Directorate. As part of this team, that includes five other Specimen Preparers, the successful candidate will contribute to the creation of over 30,000 herbarium specimens annually.
The Herbarium at Kew contains around 7 million preserved vascular plant specimens, these specimens contain a wealth of information about plants and are used by Kew Scientists and researchers across the globe in studies into biodiversity, conservation, ecology and sustainable development. The post holder will be a highly motivated individual, able to contribute to the herbarium collections by producing herbarium specimens to Kew standards in a timely way.
Kew is the world’s leading botanic gardens, at the forefront of plant and fungal science, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a major visitor attraction.
We want a world where plants and fungi are understood, valued and conserved – because our lives depend on them. We use the power of our science and the rich diversity of our gardens and collections to provide knowledge, inspiration and understanding of why plants and fungi matter to everyone.
We are looking for a highly motivated individual with excellent organisational skills and the ability to undertake repetitive tasks through to completion. You will be keen to work as part of a team, but also have the ability to work alone and make independent decisions when preparing specimens. The successful candidate will have good manual dexterity and an ability to work quickly and precisely. They will learn new skills, be able to demonstrate the specimen preparation process to others and be confident interacting with the public and visitors in an engaging manner.
We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a broad range of Learning and Development opportunities, with access to the Civil Service training curriculum, generous annual leave entitlement for new starters, family friendly policies, a choice of competitive pensions and flexible benefits scheme.
If you are interested in this position, please submit your application through the online portal, by clicking “Apply for this job”.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post.
No agencies please.
Please note that you will need to have the legal Right to Work in the UK before applying as we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role. Please note that as the interviews include an assessed practical test, we are unable to offer Skype interviews in this instance.
We will be holding the interviews on the 9th and 10th April 2019.
Assistant Curator (Natural History)
Glasgow Life is the charity responsible for inspiring Glasgow’s citizens and visitors to lead richer and more active lives through culture, sport and learning. We believe in the transformational power of the services we provide for the citizens of and visitors to the City of Glasgow.
As Assistant Curator you will develop and maintain an expert knowledge of the collection and relevant subject area, assist with the research and documentation of the collection and contribute to the development of content for public programming. A knowledge or interest in zoology is essential.
To be successful in this role you have the following skills and experience:
• Degree or equivalent in a relevant subject area
• Knowledge of natural history
• Understanding of museum standards
• Commitment to public dissemination of collections knowledge
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
Assistant Curator (Exhibitions Interpretation)
This is an exciting opportunity to join the RCS Museum Team working on the delivery of the new Hunterian Museum Project, including the full re-display of the Hunterian Collection (3,500 specimens), and the re-display of RCS Museums' anatomy and pathology collections, used to support current medical training. The post-holder will be required to author exhibition display text (labels, panels and AV), text for publications and collection catalogue entries.
The post holder will also provide practical and collections management support to the Project Curator in delivering the return of RCS Museum collections to RCS's headquarters in Lincoln's Inn Fields in 2020/21.
View a copy of the job description here:
https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/-/media/files/rcs/about-rcs/job-descriptions/As...
If you have any questions about this position please don’t hesitate to contact the HR team on 020 7869 6104 or RCSHR@rcseng.ac.uk who will be more than happy to help or put you in touch with the Recruiting Manager.
To apply for this position please send a targeted cover letter and tailored CV to RCSHR@rcseng.ac.uk
Interim Assistant Curator, Fossil Mammals
The Natural History Museum is one of the world’s leading museums, internationally recognised for its dual role as a centre of excellence in scientific research and as a leader in the presentation of natural history through exhibitions, public programmes, publications and the web.
Our Fossil Mammal Collection at the Natural History Museum is one of the largest and most significant collections of its kind in the world. Including historical specimens such as the fossil mammals collected by Charles Darwin on the Voyage of the Beagle, as well as areas of intense research activity from which the oldest human remains in Britain have been recovered, it is no surprise that the collection is widely popular with both internal and external researchers, as well as having vast public appeal (e.g. mammoths and giant ground sloths).
As Assistant Curator, you will work with the Senior Curator of Fossil Mammals on the day-to-day curation of the Fossil Mammal Collection. As a part of this, you will look to bring our collection into the modern day by entering specimen details into our electronic Collection Management System. It will have challenges of its own but you will aim to balance meeting the needs for access to specimens and information, whilst ensuring the security and longevity of the specimens and maintaining appropriate documentation standards.
We are looking for an organised, motivated individual, who is able to work with initiative and to tight deadlines whilst maintaining a positive attitude. The ideal candidate would have a good working knowledge of taxonomy, stratigraphy, and collections management, particularly as they apply to fossil mammals.
Assistant Curator, Science
Based at The National Museum of Scotland, and National Museums Collections Centre, this temporary, full-time post will support the work of the Science & Technology Department. Working with the Senior Curator of Science, the Curator of Biomedical Science and an Assistant Curator of Science, your duties will include responsibility for the collections, their documentation, storage and display, making them accessible to researchers and other visitors. You will work towards delivering our strategic priority projects, our loans, exhibitions, engagement and digitisation programmes.
In particular, you will be closely involved with the collections documentation, storage and rationalisation, contribute to a collecting project, and attending and contributing to relevant conferences as well as the department’s research and engagement output.
Building on the major suite of new science & technology galleries in the National Museum of Scotland you will also develop the collections further, especially with contemporary material, and contribute to an ongoing review of science collections at National Museums Scotland’s Collection Centre.
Required Skills:
You must have a degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject area (e.g. a science; science and technology studies; history, with a demonstrable interest in science) while a post graduate qualification in a Museum or Artefact related subject or equivalent is highly desirable. This is an early to mid-career post and you must have experience of working in a museum or similar environment, be knowledgeable and enthusiastic about science collections and/or subject areas.
You should be able to demonstrate best practice in collections management. It is expected that you will have experience of undertaking research, responding to public enquiries and of preparing and delivering presentations. Equally essential are ICT skills in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook together with knowledge of collections management databases. You must also be able to demonstrate your ability to plan and organise your workload, manage projects and build relationships within and outside of National Museums Scotland.
Application Instructions:
To make an online application for this post and to find further details of this post and of all our vacancies please visit http://www.nms.ac.uk.
If you require further information telephone 0131 247 4094 (answerphone) or email applications@nms.ac.uk, stating reference NMS18/896
Closing date for completed applications is 06 January 2019. It is anticipated that the selection event will take place likely w/c 21 January 2019.
Research Editor - Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Salary: Starting from £32,761 per year
Employment Type: Fixed Term, ending 31 August 2020
Hours Per week (exclusive of lunch breaks): 35
Annual Leave: 30 days, in addition to public and bank holidays.
Work Location: 3 Queens Mews, Buckhurst Hill, Essex IG9 5AZ
Closing Date: Midnight 9 January 2019
Interview Date: Week of 14-18 January 2019
Thanks to a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation (USA), the Wallace Correspondence Project (WCP) is seeking to recruit a Research Editor who will work closely with the two other staff in our small project team. The WCP was founded in 2010 and our current grant is hosted and managed by The Charles Darwin Trust, an educational charity set up in 1999 by members of the Darwin family (see http://www.charlesdarwintrust.org).
The WCP aims to locate, digitize, catalogue, transcribe, interpret and publish the surviving correspondence and other manuscripts of the great 19th century scientist and intellectual Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). Wallace has many claims to fame, not least that he is the 'father' of evolutionary biogeography and the co-discoverer with Darwin of the process of evolution by natural selection. He also made many other important contributions to subjects as diverse as glaciology, land reform, anthropology, ethnography, epidemiology, and astrobiology.
The WCP's mission is to make Wallace's inspirational life and ground-breaking work better known to contemporary audiences, through the publication online and in print of his collected manuscripts for the first time. This archive will be an important primary resource for students of the history of science, cultural studies and 19th century society. For more information see http://www.wallaceletters.info
The Role
The Research Editor will be responsible for meticulously checking and correcting transcripts of letters to and from Wallace which have been produced by project volunteers. They will also research and write detailed scholarly endnotes to help readers better understand and interpret the content of the manuscripts (see for example http://wallaceletters.info/sites/wallaceletters.info/files/WCP342_L342.pdf). Producing such endnotes requires considerable research experience and knowledge of 19th century history and Wallace’s milieu. The transcripts which the Research Editor will be working on will be published in volume 1 of The Correspondence of Alfred Russel Wallace and part of the Research Editor's role will be to play a leading role in producing a 'camera ready' copy of this book.
Essential Skills & Experience
• A good honours degree
• Experience of transcribing and editing transcripts of handwritten 19th/20th century manuscripts.
• Experience of doing historical research.
• Outstanding spoken and written English.
• Excellent IT skills and proficiency in using standard Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience of using a variety of online research resources such as JSTOR, Ancestry.com etc.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proactive and able to take the initiative.
• Ability to work alone or as part of a team and meet deadlines.
• Excellent planning skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks.
Desirable Skills & Experience
• A good honours degree, preferably in history or biology.
• Previous employment on a similar project.
• In-depth knowledge of 19th century history and ideally the life and work of 19th century biologists, including Wallace, Darwin and colleagues.
• Experience of publishing.
IMPORTANT
• Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
• This position is limited to the project duration specified.
• The applicant's ability to transcribe manuscripts and edit transcripts will be tested during the interview.
• The applicant must be prepared to commute daily to our office in Buckhurst Hill, Essex (on the Central Line).
• Ideally the applicant should be able to begin work in late February/early March 2019.
HOW TO APPLY
Application is by email to g.beccaloni@wallaceletters.org You should provide a covering letter (600 words maximum) explaining your skills, aptitudes and suitability for this role; a curriculum vitae; and the contact details for two referees, one of which is your most recent employer. Please state when you would be able to begin work should you be offered the post. Please enter "WCP Research Editor job application" in the subject line of your email.
Assistant Curator, Earth Systems
Based at the National Museum Collection Centre, you will support the work of the Department of Natural Sciences, working in the Earth Systems section of National Museums Scotland predominately with the mineral and meteorite collections but also with the rock collection as required.
Duties will include documentation of the collection, their storage and display and making them accessible to researchers and other visitors. You will also work with colleagues across the department and the museum to help deliver our priority strategic projects, including our loans, exhibitions and digitisation programme.
You will have a degree in a related subject, such as geology, chemistry, material science or equivalent. You will have knowledge of, or strong interest in, working with minerals, meteorites and rocks. The role requires experience and ability in manual handling and lifting heavy objects, such as trays of rocks and minerals. Proven experience in paid or unpaid work in museums or a similar environment is desirable but not essential. You will be able to demonstrate existing specialist knowledge, or the potential to develop specialist knowledge, relevant to the collections and subject areas covered by the section.
You will be organised and methodical, with good verbal and written communication skills and ICT skills in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook. You should also have experience of managing your own time and workload, working to deadlines and handling multiple priorities. A driving licence is desirable.
To make an online application for this post and to find further details of this post and of all our vacancies please visit www.nms.ac.uk.
If you require further information telephone 0131 247 4094 (answerphone) or email applications@nms.ac.uk, stating reference NMS18/900
If you require further information regarding the role please contact, Rachel Walcott, Principal Curator - Earth Systems at R.Walcott@nms.ac.uk.
Closing date for completed applications is midnight on 25 January 2019.
It is anticipated that the selection event will take place on/around Tuesday, 12 February 2019.