Collections Assistant. University College London, UCL Culture, Museums and Collecitons. Closing date: February 26th, 2017. UCL Culture seeks to recruit a Collections Assistant to work within our busy collections management team. UCL Culture manages museums, theatres, and collections and facilitates engagement within and outside of UCL. This includes the Bloomsbury Theatre, the Grant Museum of Zoology, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL Art Museum, the UCL Pathology Collections and the auto icon Jeremy Bentham. We bring diverse performers and audiences into the heart of UCL to energise the student experience and fuel UCL’s creative culture with innovative cultural experiences. We collaborate with UCL students and staff to provoke, connect and engage more powerfully. We use our objects, insights and expertise to reframe questions and surface new ideas. We believe that open minds see further. In addition to the public museums, UCL holds several teaching and research collections and a number of historical collections spread across numerous departments and fields of study, collectively known as the UCL Culture Collections. The UCL Culture Collections are collections covering medical and physical sciences at UCL. These include 19th century phrenological life and death masks, James Ambrose Fleming’s work on telecommunications, and William Ramsay’s 1904 Nobel-Prize-winning experimental apparatus, along with historical teaching aids, prototypes, samples and archive material relating to notable members of the university, such as the auto-icon of the great jurist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Since the foundation of UCL in 1826, material has been collected and donated to support teaching and research. Learning with objects is integral to the study of geology, archaeology, biological anthropology, ethnography, pathology and anatomy and continues to be a strength of the collections at UCL. These specialist subject and historical collections are an essential resource, allowing students in London to study the whole world in a single classroom. The Collections Assistant will be part of a small team responsible for collections care and management of the UCL Culture Collections. The Collections Assistant will also work alongside the Conservation team to undertake pest management and environmental monitoring across the wider Museums and Collections of UCL Culture. Key Requirements The work will be varied, working across many different types of collections, objects and materials and across different sites at UCL. The successful candidate will have some practical experience of working with museum collections, particularly collections care. They must have excellent communication skills, be able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team with the ability to work independently, in a self-directed way. Due to the nature of the collections work, they must be willing to work with pathological collections & human remains. Further Details: For further information about this post contact: Briony Webb [email protected] To apply please search for Collections Assistant in the 'current vacancies' section of the UCL jobs website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs We particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within UCL at this level. This position does not meet the resident labour market test under UK Visas and Immigration rules and therefore UCL would be unable to obtain the right to work for non-EEA nationals whose employment would require a Tier 2 visa. This appointment is subject to UCL Terms and Conditions of Service for Research and Support Staff. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Susanna Pancaldo Senior Conservator UCL Culture, Museums andCollections - Conservation Laboratory Rockefeller Building, RoomB02/B03 21 University Street, London, WC1E 6DE 0207-679-2485 (internal:32485) – *PHONE EXTENSION CURRENTLY NOT WORKING!! SP Feb3, 2017 www.ucl.ac.uk/culture ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Archives through August 2016 at http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/ Archives from September 2016 onward at https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
