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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.

The Natural History Museum, Abu Dhabi is an exciting new development. A world class museum for the Saadiyat Culture District in Abu Dhabi, to take its place alongside the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and the Zayed National Museum. Consisting of some 25,000 sqm of facilities with 8,500 square metres of galleries, it is due to open in 2025.

Job Purpose
Working as part of a Curatorial team, under the guidance of the Senior Curator, to carry out Curatorial and Research activities related to content development and production of the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi Collection. In addition, the care and presentation of the collections, exhibitions, commissions and publications, encompassing budget and schedule as well as design and installation needs. The successful candidate will have specific responsibility for the acquisition, field collection, care, development, research, interpretation and display of Palaeontological Collections, meeting the pre-opening collection development requirements, as well as building a world-class Palaeontological Collection with a solid foundation focused on the indigenous Palaeontological specimens of the UAE. Developing the NHMAD as a primary resource and central repository for Palaeontological display and research collections from the UAE. The successful candidate will also be expected to assist with the wider NHMAD collections in all areas, as required in both the pre-opening and post-opening phases, as an integral part of a flexible and dynamic curatorial team open to doing all that is required to make the NHMAD a success.

Further details and Application Process
Contact Thara Varughese at TVarughese@dctabudhabi.ae
or Sara Al Tamimi at SSTamimi@dctabudhabi.ae

The Natural History Museum, Abu Dhabi is an exciting new development. A world class museum for the Saadiyat Culture District in Abu Dhabi, to take its place alongside the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and the Zayed National Museum. Consisting of some 25,000 sqm of facilities with 8,500 square metres of galleries, it is due to open in 2025.
Job Purpose
Working as part of a Curatorial team, under the guidance of the Senior Curator, to carry out Curatorial and Research activities related to content development and production of the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi Collection. In addition, the care and presentation of the collections, exhibitions, commissions and publications, encompassing budget and schedule as well as design and installation needs. The successful candidate will have specific responsibility for the acquisition, field collection, care, development, research, interpretation and display of Geological Collections, meeting the pre-opening collection development requirements, as well as building a world-class Geological Collection with a solid foundation focused on the indigenous Geological specimens of the UAE. Developing the NHMAD as a primary resource and central repository for Geological display and research collections from the UAE. The successful candidate will also be expected to assist with the wider NHMAD collections in all areas, as required in both the pre-opening and post-opening phases, as an integral part of a flexible and dynamic curatorial team open to doing all that is required to make the NHMAD a success.

Further details and Application Process
Contact Thara Varughese at TVarughese@dctabudhabi.ae
or Sara Al Tamimi at SSTamimi@dctabudhabi.ae

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.

Over the last decade, we have invested over £120 million in our sites and have more than doubled our visitor numbers, with over 3 million people now visiting our four museums. Alongside this, we have continued to transform how we communicate and engage with our audiences. 2019 has seen the completion of our Masterplan for the National Museum of Scotland with the opening of three new galleries dedicated to Ancient Egypt, East Asia and the Art of Ceramics.

At an exciting time for the organisation, National Museums Scotland offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the care and development of the fluid-preserved collections in Zoology.

You will be responsible for assisting with the curation of the fluid preserved collections (Invertebrates and Vertebrates). This is international in scope and includes ~6,000,000 specimens. It is particularly strong in Crustacea, Polychaeta and Mollusca, especially from Northern Atlantic. There is a notable collection of Antarctic octopi. It also contains a significant collection of Reptilia. Important historical collections includes extensive material from the 1902-1904 Scotia expedition led by William Speirs Bruce and the 1872-1876 Challenger expedition. The collection is housed at the National Museums Collection Centre.

We seek an exceptional candidate who can demonstrate and develop specialist knowledge, about the specified collections and enable the widest possible access to them, in line with National Museums’ objectives. The post-holder will also work with the Principal Curator of Invertebrates and the biology curatorial team.

Applicants should have a degree in Biological Sciences, in addition to proven relevant work experience in the museum environment and collection-based research. An excellent communicator with a track record of collection management/curation, understanding of taxonomic and ecological research, and successful participation in public programs. Good ICT skills are also essential. Experience in managing staff and projects, and a driving licence is desirable.