Collections & House Officer

4 weeks ago


Ashbourne, United Kingdom National Trust Full time

Are you enthusiastic about engaging children with heritage and conservation? Do you have a proven track record of helping to ensure the preservation and presentation of collections ? We need someone who can champion fantastic collections care while engaging with children and their families, supervising staff and volunteers to give great experiences.

**You'll be required to work one in three weekends.**

What it's like to work here:Reporting into the Senior Collections and House Officer, you'll be supervising and assisting the Collections Assistants to look after the hall and it’s collection.

The Children’s Country House at Sudbury is a brand-new visitor offer for children and families, offering a playful heritage day out. Over the past few years, Sudbury’s family audience has grown substantially, and children are vitally important to our future. We will continue to work alongside children and their families to design a heritage attraction that works for them and makes them feel engaged and empowered. Every member of our team will be focused on the key goal of engaging children with heritage and making our work as playful, accessible and inclusive as possible.

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What you'll be doing:You’ll be responsible for the daily opening of the hall and museum, ensuring a consistently excellent service for our visitors. Working with a team of Collection Assistants, you'll supervise the team responsible for 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 support the continued development and delivery of the Children’s Country House and enjoy sharing stories about our collections to children. You’ll collect and record information during housekeeping cleaning routines to inform our understanding of the collection using preventive conservation techniques to improve how we conserve, interpret, and present the property.

**_Please also read the full role profile attached to this advert _**.**

Who we're looking forWe'd love to hear from you, if you:

- Have knowledge of customer care and approaches to optimising visitor enjoyment
- Are a good team player with day to day line management and supervisory skills
- Have good interpersonal skills enabling relationships to be maintained
- Have some knowledge and experience of managing costs and expenditure
- Are 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 packageThe 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 audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.
- Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary
- Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18)
- Tax free childcare scheme
- Rental deposit loan scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Perks at work discounts i.e. gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts
- Flexible working whenever possible
- Employee assistance programme
- Free parking at most locations
- Independent financial advice

Requirements :Compliance.Eligibility to Work in the UK
Permanent f/t (37.5 hrs pw)



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