Curatorial Assistant

UCL Culture manages museums, theatres, and collections and facilitates engagement within and outside of UCL. This includes the Bloomsbury Theatre, the Grant Museum of Zoology, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, the Art Museum, the Pathology Museum and collections including the auto icon Jeremy Bentham. We bring diverse performers and audiences into the heart of UCL to energise the student experience and fuel UCL's creative culture with cutting edge cultural experiences. We collaborate with UCL students and staff to provoke, connect and engage more powerfully. We use our objects, insights and expertise to reframe questions and surface new ideas. We believe that open minds see further.

The Grant Museum is one of the UK's foremost zoology museums, with a reputation for innovative and experimental work. It is named after its founder Professor Robert Edmond Grant, who was the country's first Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. The collection comprises around 68,000 skeletal, taxidermy, fossil and wet specimens, covering the whole of the animal kingdom. It is accredited by Arts Council England and works to influence the museum sector in areas of audience engagement and collections management. Alongside a lively public events programme, the Museum is used daily in academic programmes across the disciplines at UCL and other Higher Education institutions.

Duties and responsibilities
UCL Culture invite applications for the post of curatorial assistant in the Grant Museum.

The post holder will assist with all aspects of museum work and collections care, contributing to public engagement and visitor services, with a particular focus on providing access to collections and support for collections management tasks.

Key requirements
The successful candidate will have experience of working with museum collections and cataloguing systems, providing information to the public and using social media platforms professionally and an interest in, and knowledge of natural history.

Further details
For further information about this post contact: Briony Webb (briony.webb@ucl.ac.uk)