Collections Care Conservator - New Museum

London Museum has an exciting opportunity for a Collection Care Conservator with a pragmatic approach to the care and management of collections.

We are in the middle of an exciting transformation, moving from London Wall to Smithfield. The Collections Care Conservator will play an important role in supporting this work through environmental monitoring and control across the new sites, managing risks associated with installation of collections and supporting emergency response planning, pest management and management of hazardous collections. The role also works on all preventive conservation disciplines across all the museum’s sites and stores.

This role would suit a collections care specialist who enjoys working across multiple projects and collection types. You will be a good team player and enjoy sharing ideas with others. You will have experience of collections care and preventive conservation within a heritage institution and be able to confidently and independently solve collections care problems.

For more information about this role, please see the Job Description. To know more about what it’s like to work in London Museum and to get some top tips on how to make the best of your application visit: https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/about/careers/ 

To apply, please click on 'Apply for this role' (bottom right hand side of this page).  Applications are by application form.  The closing date for applications is Sunday 23 August. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to an interview on Thursday 10 September. 

If you are successfully shortlisted you will invited to an interview where you will asked questions to help us understand more about what you share in your application, and in particular to understand how you meet the essential person specification criteria for the role and demonstrate our museum behaviours. The interviews will be in person at London Museum Spaces and you will be asked to complete a short task as part of the process.

London Museum is committed to being an equitable and inclusive employer, and to becoming representative of the diversity of London. We particularly welcome applications from people from Global Majority backgrounds, who are currently under-represented in our organisation.

We also welcome applications from disabled people, as we’re a Disability Confident Leader and are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing disabled people.