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  • Project Assistant (Finding Nemo Project)

    Deadline: Friday, January 3, 2025 - 12:00
    Employer: Oxford University Museum of Natural History
    Contract Duration: 6 Months
    Contract Type: Full Time
    Salary: £31,459 - £36,616 (per annum,

    https://oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/director-of-oxford-university-museum-of-natur...

    A six-month Project Assistant, based at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, is required to assist in the delivery of a project (Finding Nemo) funded by the Oxford University Digital Humanities initiative. The project aims at establishing the knowledge base to unravel biases in crustacean species eponyms (i.e. animal species named after persons), focussing in on symbiotic Decapoda (crabs, shrimp, lobsters and their allies) and by contrasting semantic (societal, historical) and biological influences.

    The post holder will form part of an international team (UK, Netherlands...

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  • Assistant Conservator

    Deadline: Sunday, January 5, 2025 - 00:00
    Employer: University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
    Contract Duration: Fixed-term 3 years
    Contract Type: Full Time
    Salary: £30,505-£34,866

    https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/46400/

    The University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge is seeking a full-time, fixed-term Assistant Conservator. Core activities will include a combination of interventive and preventive conservation activities. The post holder will assist with the management of preventive conservation including environmental monitoring and integrated pest management (IPM) in a museum setting. They will provide museum conservation treatments to the permanent exhibits as well as upcoming exhibitions and stored collections. The postholder will also be expected to work on the Museum's fluid-preserved specimens.

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  • Director

    Deadline: Monday, January 6, 2025 - 12:00
    Employer: Oxford University Museum of Natural History
    Contract Duration: Permanent
    Contract Type: Full Time
    Salary:

    https://oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/director-of-oxford-university-museum-of-natur...

    Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) was opened in 1860 and houses the University’s extensive scientific holdings in natural history, which are used for research, teaching, and public engagement with science. The Museum is ‘Designated’ by Arts Council England as having collections of national and international importance, and these comprise more than 7 million specimens that are second in importance only to the national collections. The Museum is one of the most popular science museums in the UK with over 800,000 visitors per year, including over 40,000 school visitors, and...

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  • Project Archivist – Phillips Archive

    Deadline: Monday, January 6, 2025 - 12:00
    Employer: Oxford University Museum of Natural History
    Contract Duration: 20 Months
    Contract Type: Full Time
    Salary: £34,982 - £40,855 per annum

    https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?...

    Oxford University Museum of Natural History is seeking to appoint a Project Archivist to work on the Phillips Archive, and assist with the running of the Archive for 20 months. Nephew of celebrated geologist William ‘Strata’ Smith, John Phillips (1800-1874) was Reader in Geology at Oxford University and the first keeper of OUMNH. The Phillips Archive consists of correspondence, geological papers, lecture notes, notebooks, watercolours, prints, sections, and more.

    Reporting to the Librarian and Archivist, the post-holder will be responsible for arranging, cataloguing and repackaging...

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  • Preserved Collections Manager

    Deadline: Sunday, January 19, 2025 - 00:00
    Employer: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
    Contract Duration: Permanent
    Contract Type: Full Time
    Salary: £45,200 - £48,756

    https://careers.kew.org/vacancy/preserved-collections-manager-575051.html

    This position offers an opportunity to play a key role in Kew’s large and globally important science collections. Reporting to the Head of Collections, the post holder provides leadership and oversight to the Preserved Collections (Herbarium Collections Management Unit, Spirit, Fungarium and DNA and Tissue Collections) to develop and maintain high standards in the management of Kew’s internationally important collections. This is a vital role in the management of collections that is necessary to meet statutory obligations, sector standards and to ensure compliance with national and...

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