Museum Assistant

Education and Academic Services – Library (The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum)

This new part-time (18.25 hours/0.5FTE) post is available immediately on a permanent basis, as a jobshare with another post. Working hours are: 3.65 hours Wednesday (pm), 7.3 hours Thursday, 7.3 hours Friday.

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.

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

• 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.
• Produce accurate and thorough catalogue records that will aid researchers in identifying relevant items within the collection.
• Be interested in working within a Heritage Environment and keen to learn about moving image culture.
• Develop strong digital skills.

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

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 Matt Lee, Assistant Curator at m.c.lee@exeter.ac.uk or (01392) 724321. 

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