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Data Management - Team Leader
We are looking to appoint a Team Leader with experience of data management and experience to provide leadership and support to the data management Team. Reporting to the Lead Digitisation Operations Manager.
Leading on all aspects of the management and quality of the Kew Digitisation Project transcription data produced by our in-house team and by our supplier, the postholder will be responsible for developing clear plans & procedures to support workflows to meet Kew’s data cleansing objectives while ensuring responsibilities between Kew and the supplier are clearly defined.
The post holder will provide direct line management and support to the Data Management team members who review and cleanse data before being uploaded into the Kew Science Collection’s integrated collection management system (ICMS).
Essential skills and experience required for this role include, educated to degree level or equivalent, experience in the creation of complex digital datasets with appropriate technical skills for efficient and accurate manipulation and transfer of data. The postholder will have proven experience working at pace, experience of managing teams, supporting, and training others in in all aspects of data management.
Digitisation Quality Assurance & Workflow Manager
We are looking to appoint an individual experienced in Herbarium and Fungarium specimen digitisation to provide leadership and support to the Quality Assurance Team. Reporting to the Research Leader, Digital Collections Manager.
The post holder will be a member of the digital collections team with responsibility to maintain high standards in the management of Kew’s internationally important digital collections. The post holder will have a focus on leading the Quality Assurance Team, ensure staff are supported and trained and working to the agreed KPI outcomes. In addition, the postholder will play a pivotal role in working with our Digitisation Supplier in aspects of quality assurance of the image captured and the specimen label and folder transcription. The postholder will provide leadership to ensure any failed imaged or transcriptions are resolved satisfactorily and ensure any issues that are identified within the QA process are documented and resolved either by the supplier or by Kew staff.
Essential skills and experience required for this role include, educated to degree level or equivalent experience, experience of transcribing and imaging Herbarium specimens and experiencing of working at pace, managing teams, supporting, and training others in in all aspects of quality assurance work related to herbarium and Fungarium specimens.
Natural History Conservator
As Natural History Conservator you will join the National Museum of Ireland to work on a major capital project. The National Museum of Ireland are known as Ireland's leading museum institution, with a strong emphasis on national and some international archaeology, Irish history, Irish art, culture, and natural history. NMI are seeking an experienced natural history conservator to join NMI in the caring for the extensive Natural History Museum collections of scientific specimens accumulated over more than two centuries.
NMI requires you to join their team on a 5-year assignment conservator to play a key role in the redevelopment project, with over-arching responsibility for the Conservation and Collection Care of the Natural History collections throughout all phases of the project.
As Natural History Conservator you be a key member of the Conservation Dept. and work closely across NMI departments and teams, in particular with the Natural History Division, Registration and Operation teams and with a variety of external stakeholders. Your main objective is to draw up the Collection Care and Conservation Plan for the NMI's Natural History collections in the context of the Natural History Museum redevelopment and to contribute to the provision of a detailed methodology for the complete transfer of the collection to offsite storage. This work will include carrying out a risk-based condition assessment of the collections; undertaking remedial conservation for selected specimens as required; developing a methodology for transferring the collection including safe packing and handling; completing the transfer of the collections including overseeing and guiding the work of other staff and contractors in collection care and object handling and advising on the preparation of collections for re-display.
You will lead and guide across all areas of the project; to carry out both preventive conservation measures and practical remedial conservation on objects in this collection, overseeing and implementing standards of packing and transfer of collections as well as overseeing and influencing the work of other staff, volunteers, contractors, and interns in conservation matters. You will be responsible for setting and implementing on standards of museum environment for the storage and re-display of the Natural History collections.
Digitisation Quality Assurance Manager
We are looking to appoint an individual experienced in Herbarium and Fungarium specimen digitisation to provide leadership to the Quality Assurance Team. Reporting to the Research Leader, Digital Collections Manager.
The post holder will be a member of the digital collections team with responsibility to maintain high standards in the management of Kew’s internationally important digital collections. The post holder will have a focus on leading the Quality Assurance Team, ensure staff are supported and trained and working to the agreed KPI outcomes. In addition, the postholder will play a pivotal role in working with our Digitisation Supplier in aspects of quality assurance of the image captured and the specimen label and folder transcription.
Essential skills and experience required for this role include, educated to degree level or equivalent, experience of transcribing and imaging Herbarium specimens and experiencing of managing teams, supporting, and training others in in all aspects of quality assurance work related to herbarium and Fungarium specimens.
Vertebrate Collections Preparator
Over 300 scientists based at the Museum tackle important global challenges, spanning mineral scarcity, food security and biodiversity loss. The Museum is globally renowned for excellence in science and research and championing digital capacity and innovation.
This is a once in a century opportunity to shape the future of the Museum, protect and share our unique collection and further our science.
The NHM Unlocked Programme is the multi-year, £180m plus programme to deliver a new centre, to safely move tens of millions of unique specimens, from whales to woodlice, and to take people through this major change in the organisation in a positive and engaging way. The Unlocked programme is part of exciting wider changes in the Museum to ensure our collections can be used to support action and policy to address the global biodiversity crisis, including through sharing data on our collections on line with the global scientific community.
The new centre will include a large collections store alongside new specialist laboratories and non-technical works spaces. As part of this development, the Museum will be moving over a third of its 80 million specimens and Library and Archive collections from its four sites (in London, Hertfordshire and Yorkshire) to the new site, plus undertaking substantial internal moves.
In addition to the need to catalogue, prepare, pack and move specimens and objects, there is also the requirement to move specialist laboratory equipment. The moves are currently scheduled to take place from late 2026, with preparation and planning having already commenced.
Based in NHM Life Sciences’ Vertebrate collection the Vertebrate Preparator will be responsible for preparing Vertebrate material (current and backlog), digitisation of collections, and data management towards auditing Vertebrate material in preparation of move to MCF2.0@Reading.
The successful applicant will be responsible for sorting, preparing, and digitising material and integrating workflows in line with the Vertebrate Science Strategy and liaising with the Data Management Team for the new NHM Reading Mammals collection.
Museum Access Officer - Museum Collections
Bolton Library and Museum Service are seeking a Museum Access Officer who will predominantly work with our amazing Natural History collections.
This is your opportunity to work within a supportive and friendly Museum Access team managing museum collections, developing high quality exhibitions, and supporting the delivery of an ambitious visitor programme.
The post will ensure the service meets Museum Accreditation standards & assist in delivering the Bolton 2030 Vision.
You will have demonstrable knowledge and experience of working with museum collections and excellent communication skills, you’ll be committed to inclusive practice to ensure our collections are accessible to all of our visitors.
Experience of working with Natural History collections and an interest in communicating Natural History conservation is an advantage.
You’ll also have the desire and ability to develop relationships with partners and audiences and to seek funding opportunities to further develop the service we offer to the Borough of Bolton community.
Curator, Calleva Fossil Mammals
We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum's unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.
Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.
We employ 900 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.
Embedded within the Vertebrates & Anthropology Curatorial Division, this is a fixed term full-time position of Curator, Calleva Fossil Mammals with an end date of 31 August 2025. The Curator will work closely with Fossil Mammals Curators, Principal Curator in Charge of Fossil Vertebrates & Anthropology and researchers in the Centre for Human Evolution Research (CHER) to support Calleva research projects while ensuring best practice in collections management and care. The post will support the activities of the CHER by assisting with collections access, undertaking due diligence checks, cataloguing and digitisation of collections using spreadsheets and the Collections Management System and performing literature searches as well as supporting public engagement activities where required as part of Calleva research projects. This is an important opportunity to support best practice and to work with Fossil Mammals collections in a world-renowned institution with a unique scientific mission and public profile.
Herbarium Assistant
The National Botanic Gardens, based in Glasnevin, Dublin is Ireland’s leading botanical and horticultural institution, which cultivates a comprehensive collection of plants for scientific research, conservation, education and display. The living collection comprises approx. 17,000 species and cultivars and is supplemented by the National Herbarium and a comprehensive botanical and horticultural library, extensive archives and a major collection of botanical illustrations.
The Herbarium Assistant will assist with maintaining the herbarium in good order, curating the collections, and assisting with the taxonomic and conservation programmes of the National Botanic Gardens.
Candidates must have:
• A qualification at minimum level 6 on the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) with a significant scientific or biological component;
• Relevant experience in Botany;
• Experience of filing and record keeping;
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
Full details of the role, including specific eligibility requirements is available on https://www.publicjobs.ie/en/index.php?option=com_jobsearch&view=jobdeta...
The closing date for receipt of completed applications is 3pm on Thursday 2nd March 2023.
Curator/Senior Curator, Birds
National Museums Scotland is one of the leading museum groups in Europe. With one of the largest and most diverse collections in the world, we are responsible for the acquisition, preservation and display of a substantial part of Scotland’s cultural, historic and national heritage.
Millions of local and international visitors enjoy our four museums each year, and we also introduce our collections to a much wider audience than can physically visit our museums through, touring exhibitions, loans, community engagement, digital programmes and research.
Based at the National Museum of Scotland this permanent, full-time post will support the work of the Natural Sciences Department. The natural sciences collections comprise around 10 million specimens mostly from Scotland and Britain, but they are also worldwide in extent. The Department of Natural Sciences is divided into four sections: Earth Systems, Invertebrate Biology, Palaeobiology and Vertebrate Biology.
The Department’s bird collections are part of the Vertebrate Biology section and comprise about 68,000 skins, 47,000 clutches of eggs, 7,000 skeletons and a smaller collection of spirit specimens and nests. The collection includes around 100 type specimens. Skins and eggs are mainly from Britain and the rest of the western Palaearctic. We continue to receive modern specimens, which are prepared as skins and skeletons by in-house preparators. We have been collecting tissue samples from bird specimens for the last 25 years and these are now curated in our biobank, which was established in 2018 and contains around 10,000 samples from vertebrate taxa.
We welcome applications from potential candidates with a demonstrable specialism in any relevant aspect of ornithology, a track record of delivery in research, and a wide knowledge of bird taxonomy. Desirable expertise might include knowledge of the use of museum bird collections in a wide variety of research including molecular studies. Your strategic collecting will continue to build the collections and you will be able to demonstrate an awareness of current research on and conservation of birds. You will contribute to the wider activities of the section and the department, and support and participate in public engagement activities and exhibitions.
Digitisation Fungarium Operations Manager
We are looking to appoint an outstanding individual as our new Digitisation Project Fungarium Operation Manager. Reporting to the Digitisation Project Operations Manager 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 Fungarium Specimens. You will focus on optimising the interactions across the team to support the effective delivery of the Fungarium Specimen digitisation work, cultivating a positive, collaborative, and innovative team, that will develop a new and proven approach to exceed quality and quantitative outcomes.
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, educated to degree level or equivalent experience, experience of digitisation projects within a science / museum environment, experience of managing teams, good knowledge of Microsoft Excel skills & Knowledge of reporting tool, and excellent interpersonal and communication skills.