Digitiser

3 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Natural History Museum Full time

About the role

You will be responsible for specimen digitisation to support the Museum's work within the Digital, Data and Informatics Theme. As a digitiser you will work directly with the rest of the Digitisation Team, museum collections, curatorial teams, Data Management Team to capture digital images of specimens and their associated data.

As a member of the Digitisation Team you will represent the museum in tours and official events. You will also get the opportunity to present your work, create digitisation content for social media and articles including blogs, datasets, and printed articles.

Role competencies:

Demonstrable experience in the field of natural sciences, or a strongly related discipline. Demonstrable experience of collections digitisation, recuration or conservation projects (or relevant transferable experience). Good working knowledge of collections metadata and collection management systems (or relevant transferable experience). Good working knowledge of working in the cloud with either Office or Google Docs suite. Experience and/or knowledge of checking and verifying data either in documents, spreadsheets, databases, scientific literature or other sources. Ability to work as part of a team. Demonstrable manual dexterity for handling small and fragile collections objects. Demonstrable attention to detail and ability to follow complex instructions/workflows.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

Handling and digitising specimens to support the work of the wider Digitisation Team. This includes photography, transcription, georeferencing and databasing. Trialling new collection digitisation workflow methods and tools. Recording accurate information about digitisation workflows for project/programme evaluation and monitoring. Sharing digitisation best practices with internal stakeholders and project partners via reports, posters and presentations (e.g. at project board, internal seminars and potentially conferences). Supporting curators, researchers and other team members in publishing specimen datasets, and research papers Contribute to the team's wider communication and social media content.

Thriving at the Museum: the way we work
We are proud to work at the Museum and have identified the qualities we all need to embody to reach our shared ambition. This sits alongside the Museum's values and forms the framework for the way we work.

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What we offer

27.5 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (full time equivalent) Generous defined contribution Natural History Museum Pension Scheme (employer contribution 4 - 10%) Season ticket, bicycle and rental loan Life insurance Free admission to our exhibitions and many other paid exhibitions at museums, galleries and institutions across London and the UK. Staff discount at our Museum shops and cafes We offer a wide variety of training initiatives and opportunities to build skills. Investing in staff development is important to us, and we are ambitious about helping staff to grow and fulfil their potential. Affordable membership to the Civil Service Sports Council which offers a range of benefits including an extensive list of special offers and reduced entry fees at a selection of cinema chains, theme parks, theatres, retailers and supermarkets. It also provides entry to up to English Heritage sites and other national treasures. For more details, visit Membership to our Sports and Social Association (for a small fee), which includes access to our in-house gym and clubs such as football, softball, table tennis and tennis and classes in Middle Eastern dance, yoga and Tai Chi

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