Museum Housekeeper

**Museum Housekeeper**

**Salary**:£10.50 an hour

**Term**: Permanent

**Hours**:11 hours a week regularly plus opportunities for more hours at mutual convenience

The Museum Housekeeper will keep the Food Museum's buildings, facilities and displays in a clean and tidy condition and support in the preparation and take-down of events in order to ensure that the standards of our visitor experience is excellent.

**Who are we looking for?**

We are looking for someone who has high cleaning standards and understands how important that it is for us to keep the museum site looking its best for our visitors. You need to be comfortable working on your own and have some flexibility beyond your fixed regular hours.

**Main duties**
- To check and clean the site, including toilets, to ensure they remain in a good condition.
- To assist with venue hire set up (including moving furniture) and clean up for weddings and events as required.
- To clean the exhibition buildings in the winter closed season, including displays, according to the instructions of the Curator.
- To assist in evacuation in the event of an emergency, and ensure the safety of visitors, colleagues and volunteers.
- To undertake such other duties as may be reasonably required.

**About the Food Museum**

The Food Museum connects people with where food comes from and the impact of our food choices: past, present and future. We use our collections, buildings, landscape and programmes to explore our main themes: Grow, Make, Eat.

We work with a wide range of partners to produce inclusive and diverse programming which speaks to 21st-century audiences. We want everyone to see themselves reflected in the work we do. We aim to be relevant, challenging and sustainable.

We care for 17 historic buildings set in 84 acres of countryside, in the heart of Stowmarket, Suffolk. The museum is a charity supporting the community and we undertake a wide range of social projects and programmes. We seek to maintain high professional standards in the presentation and protection of our collection, buildings and site and continually improve our practice.

**To apply**

Interviews will take place on Wednesday 22 November.

**Job Type**: Part-time

**Salary**: £10.50 per hour

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 20/11/2023