Hello all, The Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth has an immediate requirement for a Researcher position. If any of you are interested or know of anyone who might be interested can you please reply to or forward this email to them?
Thanks
Michael
Researcher - Sea Your History
Responsible to: Project Manager - Sea Your History
Grade: Curatorial Officer G - Pay Band E1
Salary: £16,665 per annum
Pension: Non Contributory Group Money Purchase Plan, which staff are eligible to join after successful period of probation. Entry dates to the scheme are January and August.
Hours of Work: 37 Hours per week net of lunch breaks.
Probation: Six months
Contract: Until July 2008
CRB Disclosure: Standard
Uniformed: No
Job Purpose:
To identify, research, digitise and interpret material from the collections of the Royal
Naval Museum, and the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, to be made available online
through the 'Sea Your History' project.
* To liase with curatorial staff to select material from the collections for digitisation, and to draw up work schedules.
* Liase with the Royal Navy Submarine Museum and draw up work schedules.
* Supervise individual volunteers working on the project.
* To document procedures, actions, correspondence and approvals using manual and computerised workflow systems.
* To research and write content for virtual exhibitions and educational resources.
* Prepare content for 'Sea Your History' showcase exhibition and travelling exhibition.
* To prepare original materials for digitisation and either digitise in-house, or liase with digitisation bureau.
* Assist the Museum Photographer in studio photography.
* To carry out Quality Assurance procedures, including visual inspection of digitised resources and comparison with their originals.
* To index and describe digital resources with appropriate data and library/archives metadata, to allow efficient retrieval of items by a number of different search paths.
* To assist in promoting the project and its website to all audiences.
* To undertake other relevant duties as directed by the Project Manager.
Line Management: No
Key Relationships:
The Sea Your History project team, Curatorial team at the Royal Naval Museum and Project's Supporting Partners. There will be an opportunity for the post-holder to develop expertise and take responsibility for liaison with, the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport.
Michael Guthrie
IT Officer - Sea Your History
http://www.seayourhistory.org.uk
Royal Naval Museum
Registered Charity 266563
Tel: 023 927 27576
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www.royalnavalmuseum.org
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