Project Curator (Histories and Legacies)

Full Time: 35 hours a week

Fixed term: July 2027

The Opportunity:

Unlocking your career. Be part of something bigger.

Here, you can continue to make a difference in everything around you. Take on new challenges, grow your career, be recognised for your contributions, and benefit from our commitment to your wellbeing. Be part of something bigger - where your work has real impact and your development matters. There are so many reasons to take your next step with us.

The University of Edinburgh is a world-class organisation. We are a large University covering a wide range of activities. In Professional Services, we support the University’s research and teaching, offering many career and role specialisms.

A unique employer in a vibrant city 

The University isn’t just any employer. We are part of a local community and a contributor to global thinking, progress and research. In Edinburgh, you are in one of the world’s most attractive cities with active arts and social sectors, while working in a University that has made significant contributions to society, medicine, physics and teaching for over four centuries. Our people have helped create the modern world and are working on more ground-breaking technologies and practices.

Make a meaningful impact 

Here, you can continue to make a difference in everything around you. Take on new challenges, grow your career, be recognised for your contributions, and benefit from our commitment to your wellbeing. Be part of something bigger - where your work has real impact and your development matters. There are so many reasons to take your next step with us. 

Professional Services

The University of Edinburgh is a world-class organisation. We are a large University covering a wide range of activities. In Professional Services, we support the University’s research and teaching, offering many career and role specialisms.

This role supports the University’s implementation of its Race Review commitments, a landmark initiative addressing the institution's historic links to slavery and racism.

The role holder will oversee the development and implementation of the Race Review’s Systematic and Cultural Change Project Board’s recommendations for campus ‘look and feel’, in ways that connect the University’s history, collections and heritage to the University’s equality, diversity and inclusion values and policy. The role holder will cultivate and co-ordinate engagement with internal stakeholders and co-ordinate public consultation. They will manage people and financial resourcing effectively, and to work in tandem with the wider Heritage Collections team.

Our people are at the center of the University community and everything we do. We are a place where everyone is welcome and offer a range of policies and benefits designed to support you in building the right meaningful flexibility that works for you.

A career with us has a range of other benefits that can be tailored to your lifestyle:  

• Professional development and subject matter expertise 
• Working within one of the world’s leading universities 
• Excellent benefits and support 
• Contributing to the work and purpose of the University. 

Apply Before: 17/08/2026, 23:59

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