Assistant Volunteer Coordinator - Digitisation

We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Volunteer Coordinator to assist with delivering our Digitisation volunteer programme. Reporting to the Digitisation Volunteer Coordinator the postholder will be a member of the Digital Collections team in Kew’s Digital Revolution Department and part of a large project team. The postholder will support volunteers contributing to the digitisation effort. They will supervise onsite volunteers digitising Herbarium specimens and prepare online crowdsourcing projects for remote volunteers.

RBG Kew are currently recruiting staff to work on an exciting and unique project to digitise Kew’s 8.5 million plant and fungal specimens and create a complete catalogue of our internationally significant collections, making specimen records and images freely available online and accessible to researchers across the globe.

The outcome of this project will provide a unique, world-leading resource making accessible data from more than 260 years of scientific exploration, placing them at the centre of efforts to combat urgent global challenges such as habitat degradation, climate change and human health.

In addition, RBG Kew are recruiting staff to support the implementation of a new collections management system to ensure efficient and effective integrated management of the Science and Living Collections and the data describing them.

Essential skills and experience required for this role include: supervision of volunteers or students, excellent communication skills with a proven ability to work collaboratively as part of a team, high attention to detail especially on data entry and working with large datasets.