Funded Conservation Internship

Location: St Pancras
Contract: Fixed Term for 12 months
Hours: Full time (36 hours per week)
Grade: Intern
Salary: £24,617 per annum

This exciting internship opportunity aims to equip an emerging conservation professional with the skills necessary for a career in conservation as well as providing an opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary conservation department within a large public institution.

The internship is available to conservators who have graduated in the last 3 years, and who wish to develop their research and practical, hands-on conservation skills working on a diverse range of items.

The intern will be based in the British Library Centre for Conservation (BLCC) and will spend time working with Books and paper conservation, Conservation for digitisation, Exhibitions and Loans and Preventive Conservation.

They will gain experience conserving items from the BL’s collections to improve the longevity, stability and accessibility of these items. They will learn how to make treatment decisions and gain an understanding of the ethical and practical considerations that this involves.

The successful candidate will have a conservation degree and knowledge of the theoretical and practical aspects of the profession. They will possess high manual dexterity and good attention to detail. They will be highly motivated with good written and verbal communication skills.

The internship is open to those who have the right to live and work in the UK and runs for 1 year.

As one of the world’s great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation’s intellectual memory for the future and make it available to all for research, inspiration and enjoyment. At present, we have well over 170 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. We make our collections and programmes available to all. We operate the world’s largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in the future by anyone, anywhere.

In return, we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent benefits. Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes a minimum of 28.97% (this may be higher dependant on grade. Another significant benefit the Library provides is the provision of a flexible working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.

Closing date: 19 January 2025
Interview date: TBC

We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role, as it does not meet the eligibility criteria required for this immigration route.

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