Jobs

  • Deadline: Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 00:00
    Employer: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
    Contract Duration: Fixed Term until 31 March 2026
    Contract Type: Full Time
    Salary: £28,550 per annum

    We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Volunteer Coordinator to assist with delivering our Digitisation Volunteer Programme. Reporting to the Digitisation Volunteer Coordinator the postholder will be a member of the Digital Collections team in Kew’s Digital Revolution Department and part of a large project team. The postholder will support volunteers contributing to the digitisation effort. They will supervise onsite volunteers digitising Herbarium specimens and prepare online crowdsourcing projects for remote volunteers.

    RBG Kew have commenced work on an exciting and unique project...

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  • Deadline: Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 00:00
    Employer: Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
    Contract Duration: 10 Months Fixed Term
    Contract Type: Full Time
    Salary: £28,054.16 - £34,561.50

    We have a new 10-month maternity cover job opportunity working with our entomology collections at Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, developing the collection to ensure it continues to be a valuable biodiversity resource and can be used to monitor environmental changes.

    You will join a dynamic Zoology team, helping to ensure that our collections are curated and cared for to maximise access and enable wider use. In this role you undertake curation, documentation and other collection care work of entomology collections. This will include auditing and reconciling outstanding loans and...

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  • Deadline: Sunday, June 1, 2025 - 00:00
    Employer: Plowden & Smith Ltd
    Contract Duration: TBD
    Contract Type: Flexible depending on freelancer preference and project needs
    Salary: Negotiable; send day rate

    London-based fine art conservation & restoration firm Plowden & Smith is seeking experienced freelance Conservators or Curators based in any location who have expertise in natural history collections (biological and/or geological) for a project in the Middle East. Initially this would involve remote consultancy work, with possible future travel to the Middle East for practical work.

    Requirements:

    Senior level, ideally with 10+ years of demonstrable experience
    Experience working on collections in museums or institutions
    Willing to travel to the Middle East...

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