Senior Curator-Botanist (Africa)

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Herbarium Curation team in Science Collections as a Senior Curator-Botanist (Africa). The successful candidate will curate the Herbarium collections to a high standard, which includes processing new acquisitions, preparing loans, welcoming visitors and working with Kew's Integrated Collections Management System. In addition to this, the role includes facilitating access for our many visitors to the collections from around the world, identifying specimens collected from Africa and providing research support within Kew Science.

Educated to degree level (or equivalent experience) and with a proven background in a similar role with significant experience in curation, our ideal candidate will be a team player who can manage multiple priorities of the Africa Curation team, whilst being able to adapt to changing processes across curation. This position will also have the added flexibility to work across the geographical teams when needed providing management to curation projects during the New Herbarium planning. They will enjoy teamwork, and have some supervision, mentoring or management experience; have experience of working with herbarium specimens and be familiar working with databases and curation procedures.

This role is based at Kew with the option of regular home working, subject to operational requirements.