Archive Conservator Berkshire Record Office, Reading England RG4 (SCP22-28) £20,661-£24,964 pa (qualified applicants will be appointed to SCP 22, £20,661pa)
Fixed term contract for 9 months Full time, 37 hours per week Ref CSS0151 Berkshire Record Office is looking for a qualified book or paper conservator to undertake treatments to the archive of the Coleshill Estate. Work will include book, map and paper repair as well as cleaning and packaging. Coleshill House was one of the most influential domestic buildings in 17th century England. Its Model Farm, built in the 1850s, was similarly important. The archive relates to the estate's ownership by the Pleydell-Bouverie family, Earls of Radnor, and spans from the early 19th to 20th centuries. Items to be repaired include a number of estate maps and plans on paper and parchment, some lined with linen, and a variety of cloth, calf and vellum bound books. The post has been funded by the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust, and is designed to provide a wide-ranging internship for a newly-qualified conservator. There is the opportunity to practise a number of different techniques as well as supervise volunteers working on other aspects of the project. Apply online www.reading.gov.uk/jobsearch<http://www.reading.gov.uk/jobsearch> Closing date: 14 May 2017 Interview date: TBC Sue Hourigan Senior Conservator Customer Services | Corporate Support Services Berkshire Record Office 9 Coley Avenue Reading England RG1 6AF The information in this e-mail is confidential to the intended recipient to whom it has been addressed and may be covered by legal professional privilege and protected by law. Reading Borough Council does not accept responsibility for any unauthorised amendment made to the contents of this e-mail following its dispatch. If received in error, you must not retain the message or disclose its contents to anyone. Please contact the sender of the email or mailto: customer.servi...@reading.gov.uk , quoting the name of the sender and the addressee and then delete the e-mail. Reading Borough Council has scanned for viruses. However, it is your responsibility to scan the e-mail and attachments (if any) for viruses. Reading Borough Council also operates to the Protective Document Marking Standard as defined for the Public Sector. Recipients should ensure protectively marked emails and documents are handled in accordance with this standard (Re: Cabinet Office - Government Security Classifications). ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to consdistlist-le...@cool.conservation-us.org 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/consdistlist@cool.conservation-us.org/
