About Heritage and Culture Warwickshire 

Heritage and Culture Warwickshire (HCW) provide a wide range of services that help local communities and visitors to engage with their local heritage. We safeguard Warwickshire’s museum collections and archives and provide high quality arts and cultural opportunities and lifelong learning for everyone in the County and beyond.

Heritage and Culture Warwickshire has several sites based in and around Warwick, Market Hall Museum, St John’s House, Warwickshire County Record Office and a Collections Centre for the museum collections. The Heritage and Culture team includes Local Studies Librarians who are based in the county’s libraries and work closely with colleagues from Warwickshire Library Service. We are a countywide service and work strategically with partners from within and outside Warwickshire County Council to offer services to local communities and support, and develop, the heritage and cultural infrastructure of the county. 

The Role 

We are seeking an experienced person to support our Curators of Human History and Natural Sciences for a twelve-month period of maternity cover in a range of tasks involving our archaeology, geology, social history and natural history collections. These will primarily include assistance with day-to-day collections documentation, digitisation and collections care, supervising collections volunteers, and assisting with recovery from a major collections move. 

Having a minimum of two years relevant experience, you will be trained in collections-based museum work and collections documentation and will be able to use your own initiative and work effectively as a team member. Excellent literacy and digital are essential, as well as demonstrating attention to detail. We are also looking for someone who can work at different sites across the county. 

For further information please see the attached Job Description & Person Specification.

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

Additional Information  

For an informal discussion, please telephone Jon Radley, Curator of Natural Sciences (01926 418182), or Sara Wear, Curator of Human History (01926 412033) or email museum@warwickshire.gov.uk

Closing date: Monday 16^th August 2021

Interview date: 31^st August 2021

To apply for this vacancy please click on the 'Apply' button.
 
Our method of application is online, please note, CV’s should not been submitted unless asked to do so. 

 
If you are unable to apply using the 'Apply' button please contact the Recruitment Centre on hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk including your contact details and any relevant screenshots.
 
You will be notified of our shortlisting decision via email, so please check your email on a regular basis after submitting your application. 

As part of being a Disability Confident employer we guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide us with evidence in your application form which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required for each competence, as well as meeting any of the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential in the person specification. 

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk  and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements. 

Warwickshire County Council (WCC) is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce, this is because we really understand the importance of different voices, experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds within our workforce. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups. WCC has a number of staff network groups which provide peer support and safe spaces for employees who hold these and other identities. See more.