Museum Volunteering Officer
Museum Volunteering Officer
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Organisation:Leicestershire County Council
WorkLocation:Harborough Museum The Symington Building Adam and Eve Street Market Harborough LE16 7LT (working across Melton Carnegie Museum and Charnwood Museum)
WorkerCategory:Fixed Location Worker
Salary:27717 - 30066 (pro-rata for part time)
WorkingHours:18.5 hours per week (0.5 FTE); Monday Wednesday required half-day flexible
ContractType:Fixed-term until 29 May 2026
Closing Date:Saturday 7th June 2025
Interview Date(s):Monday 16th June 2025
Are you interested in working with great people in our amazing museums across Leicestershire
This is an excellent opportunity to build communities and develop exciting volunteer projects in unique and special places.
About the Role
As Volunteering Officer you will manage supervise support and develop volunteers across our Market Town Museums at Melton Mowbray Market Harborough and Loughborough. Research Volunteers meet on Mondays at Harborough Museum and on Wednesdays Research and Garden Volunteers meet at Melton Carnegie Museum. We are looking to create new volunteering opportunities at Harborough Museum.
You will support our existing volunteers and recruit new volunteers to deliver activities which enhance our visitor experience and public access to museum collections in its widest sense while ensuring the continued delivery of best practice in volunteer management. Support will include registering and processing volunteer expenses claims celebrating volunteers achievements and developing their skills knowledge and experience where applicable.
You will work with the services Volunteer Development Team Library colleagues and Charnwood Burrough Council staff to develop new opportunities for volunteering.
Some infrequent weekend or evening working may be required to support events that involve volunteers or celebrate projects which include volunteers contributions.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders please see ourpolicy statement.
About You
To apply for this post you must:
- Have experience of guiding and supporting volunteers preferably in museum galleries displays and collections spaces
- Understanding of museum conservation collections care and management processes and working with historic objects
- Knowledge of best practice for volunteer management with experience of successfully delivering volunteer projects
- Excellent communication skills able to work across teams and service boundaries with the ability to resolve conflict
- Supporting Health and Safety compliance and implementing Health and Safety audits and reviews
- Communicating with service users in a museum or other relevant public setting
- You must also have an understanding of and commitment to equality diversity and inclusion
In addition we expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Thereforewherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstanceswhilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This mayinclude requests for term-time working part-time hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in theOur Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion please contact:
Tim Savage Local Museums Officer
Telephone: 0
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0(select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Volunteer
