Quality Assurance Officer

Deadline: 
Sunday, March 3, 2024 - 00:00
Employer: 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Contract Type: 
Full Time
Contract Duration: 
Until March 2025 (with potential to extend until March 2026)
Salary: 
£30,200 per annum, pro-rata

https://careers.kew.org/vacancy/quality-assurance-officer-551714.html

Join us on our project to digitise RBG 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.

We are seeking to appoint an individual with high attention to detail and experience of transcribing and imaging Natural History or museum specimens to perform quality checks on the images and specimen records created. They will be responsible for reporting where digital outputs of Herbarium or Fungarium specimens do not meet agreed standards and will suggest improvements to current protocols and workflows.

Essential skills include the ability to check image and data quality against defined standards, a competent understanding of taxonomy, nomenclature and geography and excellent IT Skills.

You will be strongly self-motivated, a proactive communicator with a strong attention to detail and accuracy.

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