Location: | Exeter, Hybrid |
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Salary: | The starting salary will be from £25,007 on Grade C, depending on qualifications and experience. |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Permanent |
Placed On: | 22nd August 2024 |
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Closes: | 9th September 2024 |
Job Ref: | P93859 |
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 basis.
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 start 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 the operations of the museum, including conservation. Reporting to the museum’s Assistant Curator,
You will
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The University of Exeter
We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.
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:
Further information
Please contact Matt Lee, Assistant Curator at m.c.lee@exeter.ac.uk or (01392) 724321.
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