Collections & House Officer

2 weeks ago


Derby, United Kingdom National Trust Full time

Summary Do you have a proven track record of helping to ensure the preservation and presentation of collections, sharing your work with visitors and bringing the history of collections to life, then please read on.

What it's like to work here The vast and atmospheric Calke Abbey is home to an extensive and complex collection of over 30,000 objects, ranging from the finest têxtiles to the most unusual of curios. The distinctive Spirit of Place and abandoned appearanceof many of the rooms calls for a unique approach to conservation, with the mantra ‘Repair not Restore’ at the heart of all we do. Our work balances managing the precious interiors and objects, with ensuring that the 100,000+ visitors we welcome through thedoors annually can access and engage with Calke and its fascinating stories.

This role represents an opportunity to join an experienced and passionate Collections Team at an exciting time, as we develop our offer as one of the National Trust’s 28 Treasure Houses and continue to deliver first-rate conservation work.What you'll be doing You’ll be responsible for the daily opening of the house, ensuring appropriate resources are in place to be able to provide a consistently excellent service for our visitors. Working with a team of Collection Assistants, you'll supervise the team responsiblefor implementing conservation routines, preventive conservation and annual deep cleaning programme within the house to ensure excellent standards of care, delivering strategies to improve conservation.

You'll collect and record information during housekeeping cleaning routines to inform our understanding of the house and the collection, and use preventive conservation techniques to improve how we conserve, interpret and present the property. You’ll enjoytelling visitors about our fascinating history, sharing tales from the past as well as your personal experience of working here.

Who we're looking for You'll need to have the following skills and experience:

- Knowledge of customer care and approaches to optimising visitor enjoyment.
- Good team player with day to day line management and supervisory skills.
- Good interpersonal skills enabling relationships to be maintained.
- Some knowledge and experience of managing costs and expenditure.
- Willing to contribute original or imaginative ways to make elements of the collection or house that are difficult to reach accessible to all visitors.
The package The National Trust has the motto ‘For everyone, for ever’ at its heart. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It’s important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audienceswe serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.

Wherever you’re from, and whatever your background, we want to hear from you - and it doesn’t matter if you’re jam first, cream first, or even if you don’t like scones at all. Everyone is welcome.

Benefits for working at the National Trust include:

- Flexible working whenever possible
- Free parking at most locations
- Free entry to our properties for you, a guest and your children (under 18)
- Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary

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