Assistant Curator (Natural Science)
Kirklees Museums and Galleries are looking for a natural historian to join our curatorial and technical team as an Assistant Curator. This is an excellent opportunity to work with an outstanding collection and to develop and improve curatorial skills.
You will lead on cataloguing the natural history collections as we continue to work on our inventory backlog and work towards Accreditation. Significant collections include Porritt lepidoptera, MD Barnes coleoptera, Learoyd minerals, Foggitt and Lee-Hobkirk herbaria, and Soppit mycology. A focus of this post will be involvement in the early stages of a project to curate and redisplay the highlight of our collection; Tolson Museum’s 100-year-old bird room, and the development of a community-focussed natural history resource.
This is a challenging role within a small, close-knit group of enthusiastic and hard-working curators. You will bring valuable natural history expertise, especially zoology, to the team. You will be able to share your enthusiasm with diverse audiences. You will be flexible, organised, work well under pressure and be able to juggle conflicting demands. You will be supported by a skilled and experienced curatorial team and rewarded with access to fantastic collections and a wonderful opportunity to develop an exciting and ground-breaking project.
This post is part funded by the Cultural Recovery Fund.
If you are internal and want to apply for this job as a secondment you must be a substantive employee of the Council with over 6 months continuous service and have successfully completed your probation period.
Applications for secondments will only be accepted if approved by your manager, you will be asked to confirm on your application form that you have the relevant permission. If you are refused permission to apply for a secondment, please contact HR Recruitment to register the refusal.
27 June 2021, 11:55 PM
Important Information
This vacancy is closed to applications.