Archive Curator

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 241605**Salary**:

- £32,005**Grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:
**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of posts**:

- 1Contents

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Location
- Harwell CampusAbout the job

**Summary**:

- This exciting and varied role supports and contributes to our commitment to understanding human diseases through the study of mouse models. The primary function of this role will involve reviewing and updating the National Mouse Archive’s (NMA) stock descriptions and strain nomenclature in keeping with recognised international standards, to ensure that the details held in our records and subsequently displayed on our website are up to date, comprehensive and accurate.**Job description**:
**Archive Curator - Mary Lyon Centre**:
**Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire**

**£32,005 per annum**

**About us****:
**About the role**:
This exciting and varied role supports and contributes to our commitment to understanding human diseases through the study of mouse models. The primary function of this role will involve reviewing and updating the National Mouse Archive’s (NMA) stock descriptions and strain nomenclature in keeping with recognised international standards, to ensure that the details held in our records and subsequently displayed on our website are up to date, comprehensive and accurate.

In joining the MLC, you will be supported by a comprehensive training programme and other members of the client interface team.

**Key Responsibilities include**:

- Working with the European Mouse Mutant Archive (EMMA) curators at the EMMA node in Rome, to review and update strain nomenclature for existing holdings
- Registering new alleles from the MRC’s Genome Engineering Mice for Medicine (GEMM) and other programmes with MGI. This will include registering alleles associated with mouse strains donated by the wider scientific community
- Reviewing nominations for gene, allele & genetic elements for existing and new holdings and updating our Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
- Cross referencing the NMA records with records held within EMMA and other databases

**Responsibilities**:
**About you**:

- Experience of working within a similar environment
- Ability to understand biological systems, whether acquired in the laboratory or in a library setting
- Previous experience of managing searches for numerical and written data and condensing it into short reports
- Previous experience of working with model organisms (animals, plants, bacteria, flies etc.) in the laboratory or in the field
- Familiarity with data management and online database tools

For the full job description, please visit our site on the link below.

**Benefits**:
Choosing to come to work at the MRC (part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)) means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits, from a defined-benefit pension scheme and excellent holiday entitlement, to access to employee shopping/travel discounts and a salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. In addition, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the work of a world-class medical research organisation.

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

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**Security**:
- See our vetting charter.- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.**Selection process details**:
**How to Apply**:
**Please quote reference MLC 1955**

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

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- We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.-
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