Specimen Imaging and Data Specialist

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Natural History Museum Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Digitisation Specialist to join our team at the Natural History Museum. As a key member of our Digitisation Team, you will be responsible for specimen digitisation to support our work within the Digital, Data and Informatics Theme.

Main Responsibilities

  • Handling and digitising specimens to support the work of the wider Digitisation Team, including photography, transcription, georeferencing and databasing.
  • Trialling new collection digitisation workflow methods and tools.
  • Recording accurate information about digitisation workflows for project/programme evaluation and monitoring.
  • Sharing digitisation best practices with internal stakeholders and project partners via reports, posters and presentations.
  • Supporting curators, researchers and other team members in publishing specimen datasets, and research papers.
  • Contribute to the team's wider communication and social media content.

Requirements

  • Demonstrable experience in the field of natural sciences, or a strongly related discipline.
  • Demonstrable experience of collections digitisation, recuration or conservation projects (or relevant transferable experience).
  • Good working knowledge of collections metadata and collection management systems (or relevant transferable experience).
  • Good working knowledge of working in the cloud with either Office or Google Docs suite.
  • Experience and/or knowledge of checking and verifying data either in documents, spreadsheets, databases, scientific literature or other sources.
  • Ability to work as part of a team.
  • Demonstrable manual dexterity for handling small and fragile collections objects.
  • Demonstrable attention to detail and ability to follow complex instructions/workflows.

What We Offer

  • 27.5 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (full time equivalent).
  • Generous defined contribution Natural History Museum Pension Scheme (employer contribution 4 - 10%).
  • Season ticket, bicycle and rental loan.
  • Life insurance.
  • Free admission to our exhibitions and many other paid exhibitions at museums, galleries and institutions across London and the UK.
  • Staff discount at our Museum shops and cafes.
  • We offer a wide variety of training initiatives and opportunities to build skills.
  • Affordable membership to the Civil Service Sports Council.
  • Membership to our Sports and Social Association (for a small fee).

Language Code

en-US



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