Job Summary

Full-time, 41 hours per week Permanent £41,949 per annum Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on Friday 2 August 2024

Job Description

About the role:

To curate, research, document, display and augment the Museum’s collection of European material culture dating from 1800 to the present in support of the Museum Operating Plan and all relevant Museum strategies. This includes research, making the collection accessible in the galleries, through exhibitions and media, as well as collaborating on the eventual re-display enabled through the Masterplan. The jobholder is expected to be a recognised authority about a particular aspect of modern material culture represented in the collection and to manage and develop areas of it that are beyond their current areas of expertise. This is a senior post with opportunity to develop the modern section through funded research projects and the use of hypothecated financial support.

Job Requirements

About you:

• Good first degree in a relevant humanities subject, eg history, art history, social history, politics, anthropology
• Externally recognised authority in a relevant subject area
• Fluency in English and knowledge of another European/relevant language
• Experience of display, research, cataloguing, publication, and public speaking such as lectures, gallery talks or broadcast projects.
• Experience of digital and social media
• Experience of managing in curatorial or university context
• Significant publication record in relevant subjects
• Experience managing and leading major research or curatorial project teams (desirable)
• Ability to lead with internal and external stakeholders across the museum and academic worlds (desirable)

Job Responsibilities

Key areas of responsibility:

• To generate and lead new research projects in support of the Research and Display Strategies
• To lead major cross-museum permanent exhibition projects as part of the Museum’s Masterplan to re-display the collections in the light of 21st century thinking with a greater focus on Empire and its legacies.
• To build the collections as necessary in support of the of the Acquisition Strategy and in relation to the Masterplan.
• To integrate traditional, regional and minority material cultures into these new displays to create a holistic view of European culture and the ways in which the modern world has both exploited and been inspired by traditional crafts.
• To document the collections to a high standard following best practice, cataloguing objects digitally on the collection database with image taking and uploading as necessary, as well as maintaining essential paper records.