Description
Conservator: Preventive Collection Care Full-time, 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break) Permanent £36,683 per annum Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on Monday 20 May 2024
About the role:
With ambitious plans for the Museum's next phases of core projects and Masterplan, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join a growing and recently redeveloped Preventive Conservation team, leading on the coordination of all preventive conservation and collection care applications. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the long-term care of the Museum's collection as it embarks on its most significant cultural redevelopment project ever undertaken.
As Conservator: Preventive, you will lead in care of the collection through preventive conservation measures and lead in the coordination of conservation related activities supporting various collection-based projects with a focus on displays. This is a crucial role involving working closely with various cross-departmental stakeholders. This role delivers through representation, planning, and cross-museum collaboration, and to proactively engage with outreach activities of the Conservation team.
About you:
- Recognised professional conservation qualification to degree level or equivalent, with emphasis on preventive conservation
- Demonstrable practical preventive conservation skills
- Strong understanding of mechanisms involved in material deterioration
- Demonstrable knowledge of contemporary principles and practice in preventive conservation
- Experience of devising preventive measures
- Involvement in display, loans and storage related activities
- Understanding of conservation theory and ethical decision making
- Considerable post qualification experience of working in the heritage sector (e.g., museum, gallery, library, archive sector)
- Experience of planning own work and objectives to deliver set objectives on time and to budget
- Excellent problem solving and decision-making skills
- Open and effective communicator
Key areas of responsibility:
- To independently assess collection condition and contribute to the preventive conservation of collections made of a wide range of organic and inorganic materials.
- To advise colleagues and stakeholders on preventive conservation, collection care and risk management related matters on all collection-bases activities.
- To independently solve complex problems regarding preventive conservation, applying a high degree of expertise, judgement, innovation and adaptability for the display, storage, and handling of objects.
- To lead in the coordination of the management and maintenance of the collection environmental monitoring system across the Museum's estate