Collections Assistant – Digital Documentation – Beamish Museum

We are looking to recruit a Collections Assistant – Digital Documentation, this role is funded for two years by the Esmee Fairbairn Collections Fund to help facilitate greater public contribution in expanding the museum’s knowledge and understanding of its collection. It’s aim is to establish new working practices and adapt our documentation infrastructure to enable us to document our collections from multiple perspectives.

Working closely with Collections Team and Community Participation colleagues, the postholder will help to establish, test, implement, and embed new working practices as part of a project specifically aimed at  engaging with three communities identified as being underrepresented in our collections, collections documentation, and our site-wide engagement.  These are those who identify as LGBTQIA+, disabled, Gypsy, Roma, or Traveller.

The postholder will play a critical part in creating an exciting new chapter in our collection’s history, updating our methodologies and utilising new digital technology to capture, link, and share data in ways previously unavailable to us; laying the groundwork to extend this to an even broader spectrum of people and more of the museum’s collection.

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Closing date: 23 July.