Herbarium Digitisation Technician

Contract Type: Part Time (2 days, Thurs & Fri)
Salary: £7,641.02 per annum (based on an FTE of £19,102.56 per annum)

To deliver the RHS Vision and Science Strategy the RHS is creating a virtual reference collection for cultivated garden plants online. Over half of the specimens have already been scanned and we are keen to increase the speed of delivery and completion of this work. We seek an enthusiastic person work with our existing scanning technician, to scan the specimens and manage the image files, as well as to carry out essential curation and conservation activities on the specimens.

We are looking for someone who is used to working with a range of software programmes and specifically is experienced in managing information in a database. Experience with handling digital images or with scientific information and working in a herbarium would be desirable.

The successful applicant would be working in one of the world's leading horticultural herbaria, alongside our internationally recognised botany and horticultural informatics teams.