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Keeper of Natural History Division
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The National Museum of Ireland (NMI) is seeking applications from suitable candidates to fill the position of Keeper of Natural History Division (Keeper Grade) in the National Museum of Ireland – Natural History, Merrion Street, Dublin 2. This is a full-time permanent position,
subject to probation period of one year. The position will be filled by open competitive interviews.
The Keeper of Natural History Museum has responsibility for the leadership, management and strategic direction of the Natural History Division based within the Natural History Museum and others sites within NMI. This position is part of the overall management team within NMI and is one of four Keeper positions relating to the four curatorial divisions within the Museum. The role involves direct line management of a team of four staff within the Natural History division, as well as collaboration with managers across NMI in the delivery of the key strategic aims of the NMI and the Natural History division as outlined in the NMI’s strategic plan.
The role of Keeper of Natural History Museum is a key leadership role within the NMI and will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:
Lead and oversee the management of the Natural History Division (NHD), including managing, motivating, and developing the staff of the Division in accordance with the NMI’s HR policies and procedures;
Contribute to the strategic planning and overall management of NMI;
Provide expert advice to the Director, Management and Board on all matters relevant to the Natural History collections;
Developing and implementing policies and procedures in relation to the care, management and development of the collections in the Division in consultation with the Head of Collections & Learning;
Responsible for maintaining and overseeing the Divisional risk register;
Ensuring curatorial input into the registration of the collections, including the enhancement of the records relating to objects in the collection;
Overseeing access to the collections in the Division;
Ensuring curatorial input into digitisation projects;
Developing the role of research, education and learning in relation to the collections of the Division in consultation with the Head of Collections & Learning and the Head of Learning and Public Programmes;
Raising awareness of and promoting the collections in the Division;
Taking a lead role with the Senior Management Team in the redevelopment of the Natural History Museum;
Prepare, manage and be accountable for the annual budgetary estimates and business plans for the NHD to support NMI's strategy;
Carrying out procurement as necessary;
Seeking external funding for projects, managing such projects and providing reports in consultation with the Director and Head of Collections & Learning;
Contributing to the development of appropriate Museum-wide policies, plans and procedures in relation to health and safety, fire safety, disaster planning, risk assessment and security;
Contributing to collections management across NMI;
Communicating and liaising with staff within the NMI;
Liaising with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and other external bodies as appropriate;
Building relationships with external bodies and representing the NMI on relevant boards and committees;
Support the Director and the Senior Management Team to plan and deliver the strategic aims and objectives of the National Museum of Ireland
Any other duties appropriate to the position.
The above is a general guide to the role and is not an exhaustive description of the duties which are associated with the role. As the role is an evolving one, the Director or Head of Collections and Learning may assign other responsibilities and tasks to the jobholder over time.
Student Programs Academic Coordinator
Reporting to the Assistant Director of Student Programs at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, the Student Programs Academic Coordinator provides leadership and broad support for advancing Yale’s teaching, learning and research missions within the Yale Peabody Museum (YPM). While the Academic Coordinator will participate in the broad range of initiatives across the Student Programs Office, the primary role of this individual is to facilitate and support the integration of YPM resources into the diverse and rigorous academic programs at Yale. Responsibilities include faculty communication and support of courses, coordination of summer internships, and support of museum staff and faculty in the development of opportunities for students to study, learn, and work with collections and in activities across the museum. The Academic Coordinator will advise and assist Yale instructors with developing curricula that provide students with access to YPM resources including objects, tours, data, expertise, galleries, and field experiences. They will work closely with the Student Programs Postdoctoral Fellow, who will assist with many of these efforts and will share the supervision of students and/or Alumni Fellows working on related projects.
Collections Assistant - Mineralogy & Petrology
The Sedgwick Museum has an opportunity for someone with good rock and mineral identification skills and an interest in working with museum collections to join our friendly team. The role is for one year initially with possible extension dependent on funding. They will play a key role in enabling researcher and student access to the Museum's internationally important petrology and mineralogy collections as well as making an important contribution to the ongoing migration of our petrological collections into a new purpose built store.
The Petrology Collection is currently housed on two sites in NW Cambridge, and comprises about 250,000 igneous and metamorphic rock thin sections and about 160,000 hand specimens, and an estimated 100,000 sedimentary rocks. The Mineral Collection comprises about 40,000 specimens, including 500 meteorites. These are currently covered by approximately 44,000 records on the Museum's Collections Management System. The Collections Assistant (Mineralogy and Petrology) will be part of the Collections team of 3 collections assistants and 4 temporary project staff. The current collections migration project involves a major relocation of the Petrology collections (approximately 12,000 drawers, 400,000 specimens) from the Atlas Building at High Cross, Cambridge to the Museum's new purpose-built Collections Research Centre on Madingley Rise. The move is led by the Collections Manager with support from the Collections team and is currently approximately 50% complete, with an estimated completion date in the summer of 2023.
The Collections Assistant (Mineralogy & Petrology) is responsible for providing petrological and mineralogical knowledge, assisting the Collections Manager with the identification and cataloguing of specimens, organisation of museum stores, processing of incoming and outgoing loans and enabling access by researchers, students and members of the public. During the collections migration project they will play a key role in identifying specimens and assisting with their migration into the new store. There will be opportunities to develop skills in public and stakeholder engagement both face-to-face, by giving tours and other activities, and online through blogs and social media. The person appointed will have experience and understanding of Earth science and petrology, gained through training and/or work experience. They will be confident identifying rocks and minerals in hand specimen and thin section, and ideally will have an understanding of working with museum collections.
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 1 years in the first instance.
Applications are welcome from internal candidates who would like to apply for the role on the basis of a secondment from their current role in the University.
Interviews will be held on Monday 19 September. Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a health assessment.
Documentation Officer
The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a unique attraction in south east London where world cultures and the natural world are brought together for everyone to enjoy. The Museum holds internationally important collections of anthropology and musical instruments, as well as a popular natural history gallery and Aquarium. The 16 acres of beautiful Gardens feature a tropical Butterfly House and offer stunning views across London. We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Documentation Officer. Are you passionate about museum collections and making them accessible to a wide audience? If so you could play a key role in the recording and sharing of the Horniman’s collections. Your main responsibilities will be the documentation of the Horniman’s collections in the Horniman’s collections management database (Mimsy) and to support other Horniman staff with training and written procedures in doing the same. You will play a key role in facilitating the acquisition and disposals processes, as well as helping with exhibitions, research and other uses of the collections. You will be the first line of support and maintenance for the contents and use of Mimsy. The Horniman will be paying particular attention to its Natural Science and Living collections over the coming years. Your experience of documenting these kind of museum collections will be very valuable. As the Horniman rises to the challenge of digital transformation, you will have opportunities to explore and influence new practices in the digital documentation and sharing of the Horniman’s collections. You will be familiar with Collections Trust Spectrum procedures and their practical application, have good object handling, packing and marking skills and have strong skills in information and data management in a museum setting. As the lead documentation professional in the Knowledge and Information team you will have the confidence to manage your time and activities on a daily basis while meeting objectives set by the whole team and the Horniman. Your ability to document your skills in your supporting statement against the requirements set out in the Job Description for this role, as evidenced in your experience, is your opportunity to demonstrate your suitability for this role. The closing date for completed applications is 10am on Monday 15 August 2022.
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 30 August 2022. The Horniman is an equal opportunities employer and we value and celebrate diversity. We want to better represent the communities in which we work but recognise that there is still much work to do in this area. We welcome and encourage all applicants and particularly encourage you to apply if you are from a community that is often disadvantaged by society or of ethnically diverse background.
Public Programming Manager
Role purpose:
To create a step change in Earth Trust’s public programming offer, delivering experiences and events that connect our visitors with nature and inspire an understanding of their environment, their place in it and their role in caring for it. Taking the lead in driving collaboration in public programming to effectively deliver our narrative and stories to a range of audiences, both on site and digitally, while contributing to income generation.
This will include responsibility for:
o Devising and delivering audience-led and participatory experiences and visitor programming across Earth Trust’s spaces, including its digital space
o Respond to social research, building evidence, delivering public events that contribute to Earth Trust strategies, projects and campaigns
o Thinking creatively about suppliers and partners, creating a network of performance artists, filmmakers, storytellers, environmental experts and many others that will help you deliver a programme of events unique to Earth Trust
o Managing ticketing and all event logistics o Interpreting and sharing audience insight, championing the audience voice and collaborating with colleagues to ensure audiences needs are met
o Embedding access, equality, inclusion and participation within the public programmes, both online and physical experiences
o Embedding evaluation in the planning and delivery cycle to ensure feedback from each event is captured and used to continuously improve the programme
o Monitoring innovation and best practice in events organisation and management to ensure that Earth Trust’s events are creative, engaging and efficient
About us:
Earth Trust is an environmental learning charity with 40 years’ experience in caring for and inspiring others with the natural green spaces. Together with our supporters, Earth Trust is guardian of some extremely special and inspiring places full of nature and heritage. We care for 500 hectares of woodland, farmland, wildflower meadows and wetlands, which receive 200,000 visits a year. We use these amazing places to engage and inspire people and to demonstrate nature-based solutions to climate, biodiversity and public health crises, that we hope others will take and use elsewhere.
Data Manager
We are seeking to appoint a Data Manager experienced in data cleaning tools and methodologies to support the Digitisation Project, cleaning Herbarium and Fungarium specimen data and importing specimen records into Kew’s collection management system.
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.
The Integrated Collections Management System will allow more efficient tracking of the use of specimens to meet legislative requirements concerning access to genetic resources and benefit sharing, including the Nagoya Protocol of the Convention on Biological Diversity and plant health legislation.
Essential skills and experience required for this role include: generating complex queries of large data sets with appropriate technical skills for the efficient manipulation and transfer of data; and a competent understanding of taxonomy, nomenclature and geography.
Part-time hours per week 1 x 36 hrs per week & 1 x 18 hrs week
The salary will be £26,500 - £28,912 per annum (pro rata), depending on skills and experience.
This role is based at Kew with the option of regular home working, subject to operational requirements.
Digitisation Supplier Relations & Operations Manager
We are now looking to appoint an outstanding individual as our new Digitisation Supplier Relations & Operations Manager. Reporting to the Research Leader and a key member of our senior Digitisation Project team, you will be responsible for the operational and logistic leadership, management, and delivery of the digitisation of the herbarium and Fungarium specimens, leading on the Supplier relationships (Transcription and Imaging Supplier) to ensure contract obligations, targets and quality assurance requirements are achieved on time and within budget.
You will focus on optimising the interactions across the team and the supplier to support the effective delivery of the Digitisation Project, cultivating a positive, collaborative, and innovative team, that will continuously strive to reach and exceed quality and quantitative outcomes.
This is an exciting and challenging role and will suit those with a successful track record of operational/logistical and leadership together with proven experience of contract/ supplier management within organisations of similar scale and complexity. Likewise, you will bring experience of effective financial management and resource planning as well as a track record of leading transformational change and ensuring robust project governance. You will also bring outstanding interpersonal skills with a proven ability to engage and inspire diverse teams and forge collaborative and productive relationships with stakeholders and colleagues at all levels, across the organisation and externally.
Essential skills and experience required for this role include, educated to degree level or equivalent, experience of digitisation projects within a science / museum environment, experience of managing supplier contracts and teams, good knowledge of Microsoft Excel skills & knowledge of reporting tool, and excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
The salary will be £38,200 - £45,404 per annum (pro rata), depending on skills and experience.
Quality Assurance Officer
We are seeking to appoint three individuals with high attention to detail and experience of transcribing and imaging natural history or museum specimens to assist with the development and documentation of quality assurance protocols. They will also be responsible for reporting where digital outputs of Herbarium or Fungarium specimens do not meet agreed standards.
Essential skills and experience required for this role include: the ability to check image and data quality against defined standards; the ability to write protocols; a competent understanding of taxonomy, nomenclature, and geography; and excellent IT skills.
The salary will be £26,500 - £28,912 per annum (pro rata), depending on skills and experience.
Quality Assurance Officer Team Leader
We are seeking to appoint an individual with high attention to detail and experience of transcribing and imaging natural history or museum specimens to report where digital outputs of Herbarium or Fungarium specimens do not meet agreed standards. They will supervise and train a team of digitisation officers and must ensure the work they produce meet required standards.
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.
The Integrated Collections Management System will allow more efficient tracking of the use of specimens to meet legislative requirements concerning access to genetic resources and benefit sharing, including the Nagoya Protocol of the Convention on Biological Diversity and plant health legislation.
Essential skills and experience required for this role include: the ability to check image and data quality against defined standards; a competent understanding of taxonomy, nomenclature and geography; excellent IT skills; and an ability to support, manage and motivate staff to achieve personal and team targets.
The salary will be £26,500 - £28,912 per annum (pro rata), depending on skills and experience.
Senior Curator/Curator, British & Irish Seed Plants
Embedded within the Algae, Fungi and Plants Collections Division, the Curator/Senior Curator, British and Irish Herbarium, will ensure best practice in collections care and development and provide a world-class collection of natural history specimens with specimens acquired, curated and used and made available to facilitate research, teaching, training, reference and exhibitions. The post will be appointed at Curator or Senior Curator level, commensurate to the level of the chosen applicant.
For appointment as a Curator, the applicant will have expertise in the identification/taxonomy of British and Irish seed plants and will be an emerging expert in collections-based science, demonstrating ability in scholarship (e.g., taxonomy, systematics, organismal biology).
For appointment as a Senior Curator, the applicant will be a recognised expert in the identification/taxonomy of British and Irish seed plants, with a track record of scientific scholarship (e.g., systematics, evolution, organismal biology) and knowledge and experience of herbarium collections management. An additional management responsibility allowance (£2,124) may also be available for a suitably qualified candidate at Senior Curator level.