Collection Support Officer


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Details

Reference number

324923

Salary

£30,200 – £34,536
Salary per annum, depending on skills and experience

Job grade

Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

RBGK – Horticulture, Learning and Operations

Type of role

Environment and Sustainability

Working pattern

Full-time

Number of jobs available

1

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Kew Gardens

Job summary

Maintaining complete and accurate collections data is an essential requirement for Kew to fulfil its conservation and scientific objectives, both key requirements of a leading botanic garden. Investment in software and hardware has allowed a greatly improved level of data collection, organisation and accessibility.

Extracting insight from data is vital in maintaining and developing Kew’s living collections into the future. The Living Collections Strategy (2019) targets better dissemination of information to a wide range of partners, including internal colleagues, external professionals and the public.

Job description

Reporting to the Head of Collection Support and utilising a team of skilled volunteers the post-holder will accurately survey, analyse and share collections diversity. They will support gardening teams to improve internal collections success indicators and collaborate with a range external stakeholders to deliver positive curation outcomes.

Person specification

Our ideal candidate will hold degree level or equivalent demonstrable and relevant experience in horticulture, botany or a similar field. Weighting towards professional hands-on experience working with plants in a botanical context will be given. Knowledge of identification, taxonomy and nomenclature is critical. Proven experience managing and developing volunteers to achieve positive outcomes will be highly valuable, as will be competence with a wide range of software and hardware tools to capture, analyse and share data insight. Experience working with tabular data in both relational and flat structures will be an advantage.

This role is collaborative by nature, requiring an individual who is comfortable working with a wide variety of stakeholders, and confident in their ability to understand, document and present insight particular to individual teams, areas or plant collections. The ideal candidate will enjoy problem-solving with others to ensure Kew extracts greater value and use from its spectacularly diverse plant collections.

Our fantastic benefits package includes opportunities for continuous learning, a generous annual leave entitlement, flexible working to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance, an Employee Assistance Programme and other wellbeing support such as cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership. We also offer a competitive pension, an employee discount scheme and free entry into a wide range of national museums and galleries, as well access to our own beautiful gardens at Kew and Wakehurst.

Selection process details

To apply for this role, please submit your application through the Kew Gardens website.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : jobs@kew.org
  • Email : jobs@kew.org

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  • Email : jobs@kew.org

Further information

https://careers.kew.org/internal/vacancy/collection-support-officer-542715.html
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