Curatorial Assistant, Street Fdn

Role description: The Department of Life Sciences holds some of the world's most important Natural History Collections, within the Division of Insects alone more than 30 million specimens dating back to the 1700s and still developing today.

The Natural History Museum has an new opportunity for a Curatorial Assistant, who will be responsible for for invertebrates (mainly but not exclusively Coleoptera) collected on recent African Project, and manage their entire process from wet field samples to identified, mounted, labelled, digitised, incorporated specimens.

The successful candidate will have experience of working with insect collections and have a passionate understanding of collecting Coleoptera and other insect specimens.

Role competences: BEFORE beginning your application - Please read the section below about the ‘Online Application Process’ carefully.

If you wish to be considered for this role you will need to address each of the following competences in the ‘other information’ section of your online application:

Academic Qualifications

1.Degree in a biological science or equivalent experience

Role competencies

2.Skilled at working with Museum insect collections
3.Skilled at mounting and labelling insect specimens (different techniques)
4.Able to identify Coleoptera to family and experienced at species level identification
5.Computer literacy and experience of using relational databases
6.Understanding of collecting Coleoptera in tropical environments
7.Familiar with the rules of zoological nomenclature, understands the concept of type specimens (Curator Competency 3.i. Systematic and taxonomic principles)
8.Experienced fieldworker, experienced in use of a wide range of fieldwork techniques to collect insects in a variety of habitats and environments
9.Demonstrable knowledgeable about the theory and practice of collecting, the history of and reasons for entomological collecting