Lead Conservator

1 month ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Nationalmuseums Full time

As a Lead Conservator - Preventive Conservation Specialist at the Nationalmuseums, you will play a crucial role in safeguarding our cultural heritage collections.

Job Overview:

We are seeking an experienced conservator to lead and manage preventive conservation activities across the British Library. Based in London, you will contribute to our wider Conservation department by planning and delivering preventive conservation activities designed to reduce risks to collections in storage, transit, display, and use.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Programme Management: Plan and manage a yearly programme of preventive conservation activities, setting priorities, allocating resources, and ensuring compliance with professional conservation standards and ethical guidelines.
  • Staff Supervision and Coaching: Supervise and coach staff working on preventive conservation activities, offering technical expertise and support to resolve complex conservation challenges.
  • Disaster Preparedness: Lead activities to protect collections in storage, display, and use in the event of a disaster.
  • Environmental and Pest Monitoring: Oversee the environmental monitoring programme, including planning, data analysis, reporting, and troubleshooting.
  • Exhibition Support: Contribute to the library's exhibition programme.
  • Quarantine and New Acquisitions: Manage quarantine processes and new-acquisition protocols, providing guidance, training, and support.
  • Consultancy and Training: Offer preventive conservation advice and training to colleagues and stakeholders, including collection care awareness coaching and training.

Requirements:

You hold a degree in Conservation or have equivalent experience and skills, with knowledge of preventive conservation, materials science, and collection management practices within a cultural heritage context. You have experience in assessing risks to collections in storage, transit, and use, and are adept at identifying and mitigating these risks.

Benefits:

We offer a competitive salary of £33,600 per annum, along with a number of excellent benefits. Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes a minimum of 28.97% (this may be higher depending on grade). We also provide a flexible working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.



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