Heritage Collections Project Conservator

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom British Museum Full time

Collection Care
Full-time, 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break)
Permanent
£With ambitious plans for the Museum’s next phases of the 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 relating to the Masterplan. 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 the first person to hold this critical role, you will have the unique chance to set preservation standards throughout delivery, and for new displays and collection storage facilities.
Masterplan, you will contribute and advise on the care of the collection through preventive conservation measures and to lead in the coordination of conservation related activities supporting the Masterplan programme and associated critical projects. This is a crucial role involving working closely with Masterplan project teams and 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.
To act as lead conservation liaison and member of the core project team for all relevant projects relating to the museum’s Masterplan.
• To independently solve complex problems regarding complex projects, applying a high degree of expertise, judgement, innovation and adaptability.
• To work with the Collection Care and Conservation Senior Management Team reporting on project delivery progress and ensure continuous coordination of workflow.
• To lead on the long-term management and improvement of the collection environment monitoring system.
Demonstrable complex project experience
• Considerable post qualification experience of working in the heritage sector (e.g., Experience of planning own work and objectives to deliver set objectives on time and to budget
• Founded in 1753, the British Museum’s remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture. The Museum is one of the leading visitor attractions and its world-famous collection includes the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, Egyptian mummies, the Admonitions Scroll, and the Amaravati sculptures.
The Museum offers a competitive benefits package including:
• Generous annual leave allowance of 25 days (rising to 30 days after 10 years’ service) plus 2.5 privilege days and plus bank holidays
• Membership of the civil service defined benefit pension scheme (find out here what benefits a civil service pension provides).
• Participation in private and public Museum activities, including talks by leading curators from around the world and behind-the-scenes opportunities to learn how museums care for and manage their extraordinary collections
• Interest-free travel, bicycle and rental deposit loans
• Professional and personal development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts on food and gift shop purchases
We offer a flexible way of working scheme that allows our employees to work remotely in a way that suits them and the organisation. We welcome questions and conversations at interview stage about how flexible working could work for you. We would typically see this role as working on site about 3 to 4 days a week, however that may vary according to the demands of the role.

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