Collections Manager, HCR

About the role

The Heberden Coin Room is a department of the Ashmolean Museum, in the University of Oxford. With c. 300,000 coins of all periods and all countries and collections of medals, tokens, and paper money, it represents one of the leading international coin cabinets (see: https://www.ashmolean.org/heberden-coin-room).

Reporting to the Keeper/Deputy Keeper, you will be responsible for ensuring that the Coin Study, Coin Store and displays are secure, tidy, clean, well-organised, fully equipped and maintained on a regular basis. You will also develop and maintain collections management, reporting and volunteering systems, operational procedures and documentation standards, and looking after the departmental off-site storage and archives. The department has not had a Collections Manager in recent years.

The role involves occasional lone working and heavy lifting. Manual handling training will be provided.

This is a permanent, part-time post, working onsite 18.75 hours (0.5 FTE) per week.

Due to the nature of this post, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service check.

About You

You will be familiar with handling, storing and documenting museum objects according to best practice.

You have excellent general IT skills and are familiar with collections management systems.

You are able to develop and maintain departmental systems and can train your colleagues in their use.

You have an interest in working with numismatic, archaeological or historical collections.

What We Offer

As an employer, we genuinely care about our employees’ wellbeing and this is reflected in the range of benefits that we offer including:

• An excellent contributory pension scheme
• 38 days of annual leave
• A comprehensive range of childcare services
• Family leave schemes
• Cycle loan scheme
• Discounted bus travel and Season Ticket travel loans

More information is available at https://hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/staff-benefits

Diversity

Our staff and students come from all over the world, and we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture. Diversity is positively encouraged, through diverse groups and champions, as well as a number of family-friendly policies, such as the right to apply for flexible working and support for staff returning from periods of extended absence, for example, shared parental leave.

How to apply

You will be required to upload your CV and a supporting statement as part of your online application. Your supporting statement should list each of the essential and desirable selection criteria, as listed in the job description, and explain how you meet each one. CVs alone will not be considered.

We aim to provide a supportive working environment and are happy to discuss training and professional development opportunities. The Chair of this recruitment panel will be Volker Heuchert, Deputy Keeper of the Heberden Coin Room, Curator of Greek and Roman Provincial coins, who can be contacted with enquiries relating to the role (volker.heuchert@ashmus.ox.ac.uk).  General queries about the recruitment and application process should be directed to the Recruitment team within our Human Resources department (recruitment@glam.ox.ac.uk).

Only applications received online by 12.00 midday (BST) on Friday 27 September 2024 can be considered. Interviews are expected to take place on the 23^rd-24^th October 2024.

*An automatic annual increment each year will be paid up to (and not including) the discretionary range within the University of Oxford’s grade 6 salary scale.

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