Project conservator, 9 months Closing date 7th February
UK£ 24500-25500 pro rata p.a. Science Museum, London, UK The Science Museum is seeking a highly skilled, friendly and enthusiastic Conservator to work on a major new temporary exhibition about the Sun. This fixed-term post will be based at Science Museum in South Kensington and Blythe house in Kensington Olympia at the depending on project activity. It will be part of the team of conservators which works across the Science Museum's three sites: the third site is our large object store and conservation lab at Wroughton. The work itself is highly engaging, and will include interventive conservation of objects for the new exhibition, advising on preventive conservation and mounts, installing on gallery and other conservation work relating to the exhibition. You will work closely with colleagues across the museum in Collections Information, Curatorial Gallery Services teams. We would like you to bring a recognised conservation qualification, or comparable experience. This will be supported by demonstrable skills in interventive and preventive museum conservation on a wide range of historic objects and material types. You will need to be aware of hazard management procedures associated with historical objects and have a good knowledge of Health and Safety, including safe use of chemicals for lab safety and collections management. You will also be able to supervise volunteers and conservation interns and to provide advice and support to core team colleagues as well as project staff. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and be confident communicating with a wide range of people. We also ask for demonstrable skills in problem solving and prioritising, which will be supported by your previous experience within a museum or cultural heritage environment. You will be able to demonstrate the ability to plan and execute your own work programmes, provide statistics and promote high conservation and collections care standards. The Science Museum Group (SMG) comprises the Science Museum in London, the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, the National Railway Museum in York and Shildon and the National Media Museum in Bradford. Together they share a unifying mission to engage people in a dialogue about the past, present and future of human ingenuity in the fields of science, technology, medicine, transport and media. For further information about the Science Museum, a full job description and details of how to apply, please visit https://group.sciencemuseum.org.uk/work-for-us/ JANNICKE LANGFELDT CONSERVATION AND COLLECTIONS CARE MANAGER Footer:London [https://smg-esig.s3.amazonaws.com/scm-logo.png]<https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk> ________________________________ Part of the Science Museum Group, which also includes: National Science and Media Museum, Bradford<https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk>; Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester<https://www.msimanchester.org.uk>; National Railway Museum, York<https://www.nrm.org.uk>; Locomotion, Shildon<https://www.locomotion.org.uk/> ________________________________ Don't miss Illuminating India<https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/illuminating-india> - a season of exhibitions and events [https://smg-esig.s3.amazonaws.com/twitter.png]<https://twitter.com/sciencemuseum> [https://smg-esig.s3.amazonaws.com/facebook.png] <https://www.facebook.com/sciencemuseumlondon> [https://smg-esig.s3.amazonaws.com/instagram.png] <https://www.instagram.com/sciencemuseum/> [https://smg-esig.s3.amazonaws.com/youtube.png] <https://www.youtube.com/user/sciencemuseum> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail and attachments are intended for the named addressee only and are confidential. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender immediately, delete the message from your computer system and destroy any copies. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not reflect the views of the Science Museum Group This email has been scanned for email related threats and delivered safely by Mimecast. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
