Collections Development Officer
Collections Development Officer
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Collections Development Officer 7746 Temporary Contractuntil 31 March 2027 37 hours per week 30559 to 32654 per annum (Scale G) Dereham Cromer Norwich
The collections are central to all functions of Norfolk Museums Service. Maintaining high standards in the care of the collections is vital for the performance and longterm sustainability of the Service. The process of collections storage review and rationalisation together with information management are an integral part of managing the collections allowing resources to be focused on those collections that are core to the mission of Norfolk Museums Service and bring them to a wider audience.
This role is based at the Norfolk Museums Service Collections Centre at Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse 2 days per week at Cromer Museum on the North Norfolk Coast for 2 days per week and in the Norwich Castle Study Centre (Shirehall) 1 day per week
The Collections Development Officer will support the Collections Development Manager to deliver the Collections Development Project to schedule and on budget while maintaining the good reputation and Accredited Museum status of Norfolk Museums Service by assisting in:
- The development of improved access to museum collections held in store
- Improvements to the documentation of Norfolk Museums Service museum collections. To supervise trainees and volunteers to achieve this.
- The processing of objects for rationalisation from initial selection to final change of use or ownership
- The administration of the Collections Management Department
- To support the Eastern Area Curator at Cromer Museum in ensuring the safety and security of the museum collections buildings and visitors
For further information please contact: Samantha Johns Collections Development Manager
These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:
- Competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Health and Wellbeing services including fasttrack physiotherapy and a free counselling service
- Flexible working opportunities including flexitime part time remote and hybrid working dependent on your job role and business need.
- Financial benefits such as:
- Norfolk Rewardsour employee discounts programme which helps yousave money on almost anything from everyday groceries and clothes to holidays new technology gym membership trips to the cinema and days out.
- A Blue Light cardfor Fire Service and Social Care Workers
- Relocation expenses (where applicable)
- An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
- Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution life assurance death in service payments and dependants pensions
- Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
- Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new ultralow emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
- A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job
We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together make the most of our workspaces enjoy a healthy worklife balance and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into the way we work with hybrid working a key feature formany roles. Our technology platform and equipment are first class enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.
Before you apply we recommend reading the full Job description and person specification to help you demonstrate how you meet the criteria. You can also find information on ourTerms and Conditionshere.
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Redeployment closing date: 6th April 2025 23:59
All other applicants closing date: 20th April 2025 23:59
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
