Special Collections Project Cataloguer

**About Us**

We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum's unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.

Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.

We employ 900 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.

**Diversity and inclusion matter to us.**

Our vision is of a future where both people and the planet thrive. Diversity is one of our core values and we strive to build a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. All new staff who join us learn about the importance of diversity and inclusion to the Museum and how to contribute to creating an inclusive environment.

We know we have more to do, but we are committed to ensuring that everyone who works at the Museum feels they can thrive and feel valued and respected.

**About the role**

The purpose of this role is to make an important contribution to enabling the discovery of the Library and Archives Special Collections. The role will predominantly work on the cataloguing of manuscripts and archival material which includes notebooks, correspondence and mixed media collections, creating new records or enhancing existing records to recognised archival standard so to increase their discoverability for research, teaching and learning.

The post holder will join the Library and Archives Special Collections and Archives Division and will work with other NHM curatorial colleagues in LA and Science where additional understanding and interpretation of the material is required to support data entry.

**About you**

We are looking for an individual with a qualification in or working towards a qualification in Archives and Records Management, or equivalent experience and demonstrable knowledge and experience of arrangement and cataloguing in an archival context, with thorough knowledge of descriptive and authority standards including ISAD(G). You will have proven ability to work as part of a team without supervision, experience of the care of library and archive collections including their conservation and preservation, demonstrate initiative and maintain a consistently high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

**Thriving at the Museum: the way we work**

We are proud to work at the Museum and have identified the qualities we all need to embody to reach our shared ambition. This sits alongside the Museum’s values and forms the framework for the way we work.

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**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. Investing in staff development is important to us, and we are ambitious about helping staff to grow and fulfil their potential.
- Membership to our Sports and Social Association (for a small fee), which includes access to our in-house gym and clubs such as football, softball, table tennis and tennis and classes in Middle Eastern dance, yoga and Tai Chi

**Hybrid working**

Due to the nature of this role the work pattern will be 100% on site.

**How to apply**

Closing date: 23:59 on 12 March 2025

Interviews expected: w/c 31 March 2025

Please note that this role does not qualify for Museum sponsorship so the successful postholder will need to have a valid right to work in the UK at the point of offer.