Digitisation Officer Microscope Slides

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 352074**Salary**:

- £26,100 - £27,322- Salary per annum pro-rata, depending on skills and experience**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer**Contract type**:

- Fixed term**Length of employment**:

- January 2026**Business area**:

- RBGK - Science**Type of role**:

- Science**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- Kew GardensAbout the job

**Job summary**:
This role is an exciting opportunity to be part of a large Digital Collections team dedicated to increasing access to the collections at Kew to facilitate and accelerate novel research.

The microscope slide collection at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is the largest of its kind worldwide, incorporating around 150,000 slides and representing a unique resource for trait analysis and plant authentication.

**Job description**:

- We are looking to appoint a digitisation officer to continue the development and testing of new digitisation workflows for microscope slides. Whilst the digital collections team is large the individual needs to be comfortable working autonomously as they will be the only digitisation officer currently focussed on working with microscope slides.**Person specification**:

- Essential skills and experience required for this role include knowledge of preparation of microscope slides, experience of data entry and imaging, good collection handling skills, strong attention to detail and ability to work independently.**Benefits**:

- Our fantastic benefits package includes opportunities for continuous learning, a generous annual leave entitlement, flexible working to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance, an Employee Assistance Programme and other wellbeing support such as cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership. We also offer a competitive pension, an employee discount scheme and free entry into a wide range of national museums and galleries, as well access to our own beautiful gardens at Kew and Wakehurst.Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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