Senior Curator of Anthropology

**Posted**:21/03/2024 16:39**Start Date**:Not Available**Salary**:£42,571 pro rata p.a (£43,440 after probation)**Location**:Horniman Museum and Gardens, Forest Hill**Level**:Experienced (Non Manager)**Deadline**:23/04/2024 10:00**Hours**:17.5**Benefits**:See "Working for Us" on the Home menu**Job Type**:Part time**Job title and reference**:Senior Curator of Anthropology (Ref: CON2.24)

**Salary**:£42571 pro rata per annum (rising to £434401 pro rata p.a. after** **probation)***

**Reports to**:Head of Content

**Responsible for**:Project staff and Anthropology placements, research students and volunteers***

**Hours of work**:Job share (0.5 FTE 17.5 hours per week, occasional evening and weekend work will be required with time off in lieu)

The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a unique attraction in south east London where world cultures and the natural world are brought together for everyone to enjoy. The Museum holds internationally important collections of anthropology and musical instruments, as well as a popular natural history gallery and Aquarium. The 16 acres of beautiful Gardens feature a tropical Butterfly House and offer stunning views across London.

The Content team comprises experts in our collections of Anthropology, Musical Instruments, and Natural Sciences, and in social practice, schools learning, community engagement and volunteering. Their collaboration and expertise helps share knowledge, deepen understanding and tell stories emanating from our collections to our visitors in ways that achieve our mission and priorities and raise the profile of the Horniman nationally and internationally.

We are looking for a Senior Curator of Anthropology to help deliver the Horniman’s Reset Agenda. You’ll have the skills and experience to help us develop, preserve, research and open up our collections to a wider range of audiences, including source and diaspora communities, and delivering content for its programmes, projects and audiences.

Please note that the post requires a Basic DBS check.

**How to Apply**

**Please provide an overview of no more than 2 pages describing your experience relevant to the role as outlined in the Job Description and Person Specification.**

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Job title**:Senior Curator of Anthropology

**Team**:Content

**Reports to**:Head of Content

**Responsible for**: Project staff and Anthropology placements, research students and volunteers

**Main purpose of job**

To support the delivery of the Horniman’s key objectives including its Reset Agenda by developing the Anthropology Collection, enabling the opening up of the collection to a wider range of audiences, including source and diaspora communities, and delivering content for its programmes, projects and audiences.

**The Reset Agenda**

The Horniman’s Reset Agenda was developed in 2020 in response to global issues of social and environmental justice and the coronavirus pandemic. Its priorities are:
1. Consult people and work in partnership

2. Address the history and legacy of the Horniman business and institutional collecting

3. Engage wider audiences through programming and communications

4. Enhance our digital capabilities

5. Diversify staff and volunteers

6. Make the Horniman greenhouse gas neutral and more biodiverse

7. Maximise income generation

**Team description**

The Content team comprises experts in our collections of Anthropology, Musical Instruments, and Natural Sciences, and in social practice, schools learning, community engagement and volunteering. Their collaboration and expertise helps share knowledge, deepen understanding and tell stories emanating from our collections to our visitors in ways that achieve our mission and priorities and raise the profile of the Horniman nationally and internationally.

**Main responsibilities**

**Public engagement (25%)**
- Play a full curatorial role in the development and delivery of high quality and creative exhibitions and displays, working collaboratively with the other (job share) Senior Curator of Anthropology, Senior Curator of Social Practice and other colleagues to build relationships with external partners, source communities and diaspora members.
- Provide curatorial content and interpretation for incoming loans for display and exhibition and outgoing loans from the collection (exhibition and research). Make suggestions and recommendations for incoming/outgoing loans.
- Support and participate in the Horniman’s public programme (e.g. schools activities, ‘Object in Focus’, Community Engagement, events etc.). Generate concepts and content, contributing to the development and delivery of programming.
- Develop and contribute to the Horniman’s digital engagement activities.
- Promote the Horniman, anthropology collection and income generation activities in collaboration with the Communications and Income Generation team.

**Collections curation and development (25%)**
- Facilitate access to, and ensure the security, c