The National Conservation Service is seeking expressions of interest in a part-time (4days/28hrs per week) Conservation Technician post to work at the NCS Collaborative Storage Scheme site, Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, UK.
The post holder will assist the Lead Conservator at the site in the care of stored collections and in basic conservation projects such as cleaning, packaging, monitoring and movement of objects and boxed collections. NCS is a non-profit membership organisation for archives, libraries and museums, working on-site and remotely in over 130 institutions across the UK. The NCS storage scheme was established in 2013 in partnershp with Restore Plc and currently looks after the collections of over 50 museum, gallery, library and archive insitutions, storing at present approximately 45 kilometers equivalent of material in two specially converted storage shelters, with new collections arriving all the time. For more information about the scheme and location go to www.ncs.org.uk The successful post holder will need to have had experience in assisting in the preventive and interventive conservation of heritage collections. A formal conservation qualification is desirable but not essential. Training will be provided and support to achieve a further qualification will be available as appropriate. Applicants must have a driving licence and own a car for access to this remote site and for occasional support on site at NCS member insitutions and other NCS studios when required. The salary for the post will be £15,680 (pro rata full time £21,000). Extra hours and some late or weekend working may be required from time to time for which payment will be made. If you are interested in the post, please write to us at [email protected], providing a CV. ________________________________________________ Chris Woods PGDipCons BAhons CertCons RMARA ACR FIIC Director National Conservation Service 21 Albemarle Street Mayfair London W1S 4BS ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Archives through August 2016 at http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/ Archives from September 2016 onward at https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
