Details:
Location:
GreenwichCategory:
Collections CareSalary:
£24,711Contract type:
Contract PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
02088588565Collections Information and Audit Officer (Systems)
Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) is a collection of diverse historical sites. The sites are the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, and the Queen’s House. Each of these sites has a unique identity and a common purpose to serve our communities, through sharing our collections and expertise. We are a place to explore the sea, space, art and history, and our strategy ‘Charting Our Course’ puts people at the core of its success.
Working in the Collections Services Department and reporting to the Collections Database and Audit Manager, the Collections Information and Audit Officer (Systems) will assist with the Museum’s documentation, audit, and broader collections management activities. The role will provide collections management and systems support across a range of National Maritime Museum programmes, including the exhibition programmes and storage projects.
Key responsibilities include assisting with collection management database (Mimsy XG) development, data management and uploads and database training and staff support. In addition, a key responsibility will be assisting the Collections Database and Audit Manager with implementation and development of the Museum’s rolling audit programme. This includes setting up and performing the audits, dealing with queries and liaising with staff, updating the collections database and writing reports to analyse compliance with Museum procedures. The role will involve administering and managing the Museums security provision, Fortecho, during the installations and decants. Labelling, marking and recording photography of object will also be a key responsibility to the role, using Photoshop to process the digital images. An additional key element to this role will be to provide documentation and technical support for exhibition and display installations and decants in the National Maritime Museum and Queens House.
The successful candidate will be computer literate with demonstrable practical experience of working with collections management databases. They will have a demonstrable interest in and understanding of museum collections management. Practical experience of working with Museum collections, and excellent interpersonal skills, are essential to this role. They will be enthusiastic and self-motivated, able to work with limited supervision, and able to maintain attention to detail. The successful applicant will be willing to work with flexibility between Museum locations and must be able to undertake physical work with collections.
This is a full time, permanent role in Band 7 – Coordinators. Core hours of work will be 36 per week, working 5 days between the hours of 9am-5pm. On occasion, some flexibility may be required.
We offer a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, a generous pension scheme, 22 days annual leave (rising to 25 days after 1 year) plus bank holidays, 30% discount in our cafés and shops, interest-free season ticket and bike loans, training opportunities and continuous performance management reviews to support personal and career development, NMDC reciprocal agreement for free admissions to other museums and galleries’ paid exhibitions, and an environment with flexible working options. For a full list of the benefits, please visit our website.
Salary: £24,711 per annum
We encourage you to read the full job description/person specification attached before applying for this role.
Diversity and inclusion are integral to our work at Royal Museums Greenwich, as we are a museum for everyone. We want to foster a spirit of inclusion, collaborative working, innovation, and valuing people as individuals whose lives have been shaped by different experiences. Therefore, we welcome applications from everyone.
We actively work with Disability Confident scheme and ask that you let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments you need or things you would like us to know during the interview process, which may include being provided the interview questions in advance, requiring a step free interview space, that you are eye-contact avoidant, or having the interview questions in a written format or additional time in timed tests, interviews or other assessment activities.