Conservation Training Manager
The National Museum Directors' Council
Location
St Pancras, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
Location: St Pancras
Hours: Fixed Term, Full Time
Grade: B
Salary: £33,600
The British Library is looking for a conservation training manager to join the conservation team.
The job holder will deliver courses/workshops and other activities for international training collaborations, such as the Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) Hubs project.
This is a unique and exciting opportunity to travel around the world and deliver conservation and collection care workshops to conservators and other professions working in libraries and archives. Destinations include India, South Africa, Jamaica, Lesotho to name a few.
The successful candidate will supervise, support and coach trainees both BL staff and external collaborators taking part in the International programme remotely and in person abroad. The conservation training manager will liaise with and offer professional advice to conservators, curators and other colleagues on a local, national and international level.
The job holder will hold a degree in conservation/preventive conservation, demonstrate management skills, the ability to communicate effectively and the ability to coach, train and supervise other conservators and other professions.
The successful candidate is expected to demonstrate a willingness to work outside normal working hours.
For more information please read the job description.
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 26.6% (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: 24 March 2024
Interview date: 10 April 2024
Museum Website: https://ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=5071482BMD&VACANCY_ID=5133004FtH
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