Science Museum Jobs – Collections Project Officer

Job Description:

The National Collections Centre (NCC) is based in Wroughton, Swindon. In spring 2019 construction began on a new home for more than 300,000 historic objects from the Science Museum Group (SMG) collection. The new storage building, known as Building ONE, will transform how we manage, care for, and share our collection with the world, ensuring these historic objects continue to inspire future generations.

Job Responsibilities:

• You will follow a rapid inventory workflow that will account for every object in these collections and ensure there is a core database record on the collections database.
• You will be using barcode scanning technology and one of the world’s leading museum collections management software to track and catalogue a very diverse collection.
• This role offers a unique opportunity to work as part of a fast-paced team gaining practical experience working with one of the world’s greatest science, technology, and medicine collections.
• You will also be crucial in making the collections stored at the National Collections Centre available digitally through the Science Museum Group’s Collections Online portal.
• As one of a team of Collections Project Officers, you will document, hazard survey, condition assess and photograph approximately 25,000 objects already stored at the NCC.
• You will also assist with the preparation, packing and transport of approximately 12,000 objects across the NCC site and into Building ONE.
• You will be working primarily with SMG’s larger objects, ranging in size from aircraft and vehicles to television sets and cameras.

Job Requirements:

• Open for All’ is one of the Science Museum Group’s five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. As a national museum group, we have an ability to reach a wide and diverse population of audiences, colleagues and partners through our geography and scale.
• By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation and ultimately will be able to inspire more futures.
• The Science Museum Group (SMG) is here to inspire futures. As the world’s leading group of science museums, we share our unparalleled collection spanning science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine with over five million visitors each year.
• Joining us as an employee, you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a world-class museum group.
• We know work/life balance and wellbeing is crucial to our colleagues, so we currently offer up to 25 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays; BUPA medical and dental care; employee assistance programme; enhanced contributory pension; enhanced occupational sick, maternity, paternity and adoption leave and career breaks.
• We therefore welcome applications from those who bring difference.

Qualification & Experience:

• We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to foster a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge and expertise.

Job Details:

Company: Science Museum

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Wroughton, England

Application Deadline: N/A