Curatorial Assistant, The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

Education and Academic Services, Library

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working, although for this type of collections-based and service role, the expectation is that most working hours will be campus-based.

We welcome applications from candidates interested in job-sharing arrangements.

This new full-time post is available immediately on a permanent contract.

Summary of the role

The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter is the leading moving image history museum in the UK. It is both a research and teaching facility and a free, accredited public museum, with two galleries for visitors telling the story of moving pictures (including both cinema and the optical media that preceded it) and their audiences, over the last three centuries. The museum was originally founded from the collection of renowned filmmaker Bill Douglas and is a living, growing collection that currently comprises over 90,000 items.

This role offers an opportunity to work with this fascinating collection and to develop a career in heritage and culture. As part of the Heritage Collections Unit in the library, the post will help to deliver the museum’s work in supporting teaching and research at the University and offering the best service to visitors to the museum. The post-holder will enable research by making collections accessible through documentation and digitisation, staffing our reading room and assisting with interpretation, including through social media. Reporting to the museum’s Curator, you will.

Be able to deliver excellent customer service and work in a team

• Demonstrate good organisational and time-management skills; possessing the ability to prioritise and to work to deadlines independently and collaboratively.
• Write and interpret accurate catalogue records to aid researchers to use the collection.
• Have some experience working or volunteering in a Heritage Environment.
• Develop strong digital and analytical skills.

 Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including: 

• - 39 days leave per year
• - options for flexible working
• - numerous discounts at leading retailers
• - onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
• - sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to six weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• - stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England 

Further information

Please contact Phil Wickham, Curator at  p.j.wickham@exeter.ac.uk or (01392) 724321. 

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