Collections Documentation Officer

Bristol Museums has an exciting opportunity for a Collections Documentation Officer to join their Conservation and Documentation team on a fixed term, full-time basis (12 months maternity cover).

Part of Bristol City Council, Bristol Museums is responsible for the care of collections held across five museum sites and Bristol Archives and welcomes approximately one million visitors annually. Based at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery the Collections Documentation Officer will have the opportunity to work across all curatorial departments from art to archaeology, history to industry, the natural and the wider world, with many recognised as nationally and internationally important.

You will undertake cataloguing and digitisation projects, provide collections management support to the wider Collections Team, liaising with internal and external clients and act as our lead EMu specialist and administrator (EMu is our collections management system). The role supports the Conservation & Documentation Manager and the wider team to shape and deliver our collections management work programme including advising on best practice procedures, standards and copyright.

You will lead on the upgrade of our collections management system from EMu 5 to 6 providing training and documentation for colleagues along alongside core work creating records, producing reports, troubleshooting and extracting information for colleagues.

Good digital skills are essential, particularly knowledge of Microsoft Excel and complex databases. As this is a fixed term role administrative experience of the collections management system EMu is essential. Experience working in conjunction with multi-disciplinary colleagues, good communication skills and attention to detail should be demonstrated within the application.

A strong understanding of collections management principles and procedures along with experience handling a range of museum collections should be highlighted and will be part of a practical assessment at interview. The applicant should have a museum relevant degree or equivalent collections management experience.