Curatorial Assistant- The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

Education and Academic Services- Library 

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.

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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