Digitisation Fungarium Operations Manager

Deadline: Sunday, February 26, 2023 - 00:00
Employer: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Contract Duration: Until March 2024
Contract Type: Full Time
Salary: £33,802 - £39,759

We are looking to appoint an outstanding individual as our new Digitisation Project Fungarium Operation Manager. Reporting to the Digitisation Project Operations Manager 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 Fungarium Specimens. You will focus on optimising the interactions across the team to support the effective delivery of the Fungarium Specimen digitisation work, cultivating a positive, collaborative, and innovative team, that will develop a new and proven approach to exceed quality and quantitative outcomes.

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, educated to degree level or equivalent experience, experience of digitisation projects within a science / museum environment, experience of managing teams, good knowledge of Microsoft Excel skills & Knowledge of reporting tool, and excellent interpersonal and communication skills.