Royal Museums Greenwich is looking to recruit a Preventive Conservator and IPM Coordinator (Maternity Cover) to care for the collections and Buildings of Royal Museums Greenwich.
Royal Museums Greenwich is a collection of diverse historical sites. The sites are the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, and the Queen’s House. Each of these sites has a unique identity and a common purpose to serve our communities, through sharing our collections and expertise. We are a place to explore the sea, space, art and history, and our strategy ‘Charting Our Course’ puts people at the core of its success.
About the Role
The Preventive Conservator and IPM Coordinator will work within the Collections Services team and report to the Senior Manager, 2D Conservation. The purpose of their role will be to care for the collections and Buildings of Royal Museums Greenwich through preventive conservation methods including environmental monitoring and established IPM protocols. The role will work across sites, with a desk based at the Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre (PPMCC, Kidbrooke).
Key responsibilities include leading the Museum’s Integrated Pest Management programme and coordinating preventive conservation across galleries, stores, displays, and loans, including providing advice to colleagues, senior management, external partners, and the public, and supporting exhibitions, loans, storage, displays, and grant applications. The postholder will plan and deliver environmental monitoring of temperature, humidity, light, and pollutants, analyse and report results, and propose measures to improve preservation conditions. The role includes incorporating sustainable practices, carrying out materials testing, maintaining the database of results, contributing to research, providing training, and supervising volunteers, interns, students, and contractors while ensuring COSHH and health and safety compliance.
This is a fixed-term full-time role for 12 months, in Band 5 - Management and Proficient Specialists. Core hours of work will be 36 per week, 8am-4pm, Monday to Friday, with an additional hour to be worked as agreed upon with management.
About You
The successful candidate will have a recognised professional qualification in conservation, or equivalent professional experience, and practical experience in preventive conservation, demonstrating knowledge of environmental monitoring, Integrated Pest Management, and preventive care of a wide range of collection materials. They will have knowledge of sustainable practices, a proactive and flexible approach, strong organisational and communication skills, a demonstrable record of continuing professional development, be computer literate, and have experience supervising volunteers, interns, or students.
Benefits
We offer a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, a generous pension scheme, 22 days annual leave (rising to 25 days after 1 year) plus bank holidays, 30% discount in our cafés and shops, interest-free season ticket and bike loans, training opportunities and continuous performance management reviews to support personal and career development, NMDC Reciprocal Agreement for free admissions to other museums and galleries’ paid exhibitions, and an environment with flexible working options.
How to Apply
To find out more and apply for this role, please visit the Royal Museums Greenwich Vacancies Site before the deadline on Sunday 30 November at 11:59PM.