Digital Collections Officer – The National Holocaust Centre & Museum

The NHCM recently secured funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for the first stage in a site-wide capital redevelopment programme that will see us refresh our award-winning exhibition The Journey with new digital content, artefacts and interpretation, create a new Digital Broadcast Hub to support our digital outreach, create new learning spaces with improved facilities and access, and develop new learning and volunteering programmes to build community relationships and grow our audiences. Underpinning all these aspirations is our ability to develop, maximise and make accessible our unique collection, particularly the digital assets that enable us to engage visitors on site and reach global audiences online. This investment will enable us to develop the potential of our unique grounds and outdoor spaces to support learning, participation and volunteering, working towards the NHCM’s mission to create a community of critical thinkers and building on the family atmosphere upon which the museum was founded.

We are looking to appoint a passionate and enthusiastic Project Curator to take the lead on managing, preserving and making accessible our significant digital collection of Holocaust survivor testimony.

This includes both digital and digitised collections, AV and time-based media. The postholder will be the professional lead for digital preservation and digital asset management at the museum, responsible for managing the museum’s digital collections, keeping abreast of and implementing best practice standards, and for making the collections accessible to a wide public. This will involve undertaking collections-based research and working with colleagues to provide content for our learning programmes, on-site interpretation, online events and website. You will develop and expand the collection, working with the development director to identify funding opportunities and developing and delivering your own projects to grow the museum’s assets and maximise their use in the service of our mission. The postholder will assist in raising the profile of the museum’s collections nationally and
internationally through advocacy, events, networking, and other onsite and online activities.

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How to apply

To apply, please complete:

(i) a CV of no more than 2 pages, including the details of 2 referees (one to be your current employer);

(ii) a cover letter of no more than 2 pages explaining your suitability for the role.

Please email these documents to [email protected] by the end of day on Tuesday 11 April 2023 (11:59pm).

Interviews are to take place Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 April.