Identification Trainers for the Future - 5 Traineeship positions
The Identification Trainers for the Future project is creating 15 traineeships based at the Natural History Museum between 2015 - 2017. In this round of applications, 5 trainees will be selected for this 12-month placement, starting in March 2016. Please note, in order to apply you must be available to start from March 2016, we are not able to accept applications for the 2017 traineeships at this stage, nor can we delay start dates of the placements.
If your application is successful, as a trainee, your time will be divided between working with various teams in the Natural History Museum, including the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity, curatorial teams and the Learning and Engagement department, and a programme of workshops which will build on your skills in species identification, taxonomy and scientific communication and instruction.
A tax-exempt bursary of £16,500 will be provided to all trainees to cover living expenses while they undertake their traineeship.
For a list of museum employee benefits please visit http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/jobs-volunteering-internships/museum-benef....
For further information, including more information on the background to the project and details of the training which will be provided, please find the link details: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/content/dam/nhmwww/take-part/identification-trainer....
Department: Life Sciences – Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity
Contract Type: 12-month traineeship
Bursary award: £16,500 per annum (tax exempt) plus benefits
Application Close Date: Midnight on 12th October 2015
Selection day: Week commencing 10th December 2015
Role competences:
As part of the on-line application, you must provide answers to the following questions. These will be used to short list applicants who will be invited to the selection day.
1. Describe your areas of interest in UK wildlife.
2. Using relevant examples, describe your involvement in recording UK wildlife. This may be through local or national recording schemes, undertaken as part of a voluntary role you have been doing, a private research project, a project undertaken in school, college or university, or simply recording the wildlife that comes to your garden, local park or nature reserve.
3. Why do you think it is important to support and train people to record wildlife in the UK?
4. The traineeship programme focuses on developing your ability to teach and train others, as well as your species identification skills. Using your own experiences of courses or classes you have attended as examples (whether wildlife-related or not), what do you think are the key features of a good training session?
5. What qualities and strengths do you feel you will bring to this traineeship and to the Natural History Museum? How do you think undertaking this traineeship will benefit you and your future career?
Online application process:
How to Apply
Apply on-line before the 12th October 2015 through the NHM website: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/search-vacancies. For internal applications please apply through the Internal NHM website
* Complete the on-line application form. In the ‘Other Information’ section, please provide specific examples from your achievements, knowledge, skills or experience to illustrate your answers to each of the application questions (section 3) for the role. You must complete this section.
* Please use one field per application question, you can use a maximum of 140 words per field.
Please note:
* You must fully complete your on-line application, CV’s are not being accepted for this traineeship
* Partially completed applications with CVs attached will be rejected.
* Individual cover letters and CVs submitted outside of the on-line application system will not be considered.