Collections & House Officer

Summary Do you have a proven track record of helping to ensure the preservation and presentation of collections, sharing your work with visitors and bringing the history of collections to life, then please read on.

**This is a Key Representative role - Accommodation is provided for the proper or better performance of your duties in accordance with Trust criteria and HMRC rules.**

What it's like to work here Berrington Hall is a Neo-Classical mansion built in the late 18th Century. The mansion boasts delicate interiors with beautifully decorated ceilings and fine furniture. In recent years the property has built a reputation for thedisplay of contemporary art projects, both inside the mansion and on the wider property.

This is an exciting time to join the house and collections team as we are about to embark on a conservation management plan for the mansion and courtyard buildings. We hope that this will lead on to a curatorial review of the mansion and the collectionsdisplayed and stored within it.

As our employees will tell you, working for the National Trust offers a hard-to-beat sense of satisfaction. Your work will make sure hundreds of thousands of visitors enjoy this incredible place today and in the future. We pride ourselves on having an openand receptive work environment and a unique culture where a sense of belonging and shared love of what we do lies at its heart.

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What you'll be doing You’ll be responsible for the daily opening of the house, ensuring appropriate resources are in place to be able to provide a consistently excellent service for our visitors. Working with a team of Collection Assistants, you'll supervise the team responsiblefor 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 collect and record information during housekeeping cleaning routines to inform our understanding of the house and the collection, and use preventive conservation techniques to improve how we conserve, interpret and present the property. You’ll enjoytelling visitors about our fascinating history, sharing tales from the past as well as your personal experience of working here.

Who we're looking for You'll need to have the following experience:

- You’ll have experience in relevant field and / or operational experience in Historic Properties
- People management skills including rota planning and working with and managing volunteers
- Some knowledge of managing budgets and finance
- Knowledge of visitor experience principles and approaches to optimising visitor engagement andenjoyment
- Flexible, energetic and a good team player
The package The 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 audienceswe serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.

Wherever you’re from, and whatever your background, we want to hear from you - and it doesn’t matter if you’re jam first, cream first, or even if you don’t like scones at all. Everyone is welcome.

Benefits for working at the National Trust include:

- Flexible working whenever possible
- Free parking at most locations
- Free entry to our properties for you, a guest and your children (under 18)
- Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary

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