Recruitment at River and Rowing Museum

We’re delighted to be able to offer a number of roles this autumn as part of the Museum’s exciting plans for growth. All these roles are permanent, some are full-time and some are part-time.

If you’re interested in more than one role, please send us one version of your CV with supporting statements for each of the roles you’re applying for. We’ll be running an assessment day which will include some group assessments and some individual assessments tailored to the role(s) you’ve applied for.

Download the Summary of RRM Autumn 2021 recruitment>>

Curator

This really is an exciting time to take on the role of Curator here. In the next eighteen months we’ll have the best knowledge of our whole collection to date, and urgent work to stabilise the environmental conditions in the galleries will have been completed.

Supported by a Collections Registrar with excellent knowledge and management of the collection, and a Curatorial Technician to help create striking temporary displays – you’ll be able to use your creativity and interpretation skills to huge advantage and impact.

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Curatorial Technician

This new role will work on several different curatorial tasks to make sure that the museum collection is cared for and shown to the highest standards. The Curatorial Technician will work with the Curator on monitoring and responding to the environmental conditions in the galleries and undertake some integrated pest management work too. They’ll work with volunteers to carry out conservation cleaning in the galleries, including management and development of the outdoor gallery areas. The skills they bring and develop within the role will ensure that collection items are transported, handled, and displayed to minimise irreversible damage.

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Collections Registrar

This new role will initially manage a project involving a team of trained volunteers to audit all the museum’s collection. We hope this will be finished towards the end of 2022. The audit will help the museum take a strategic approach to the ongoing acquisition and disposal of items, together with management of loans. The Collections Registrar will be key in reporting on the nature of the collection to help with decision making. On an ongoing basis, this role will manage the knowledge of the collection: its movements, recording and storage. This will enable the Curator to use the collection dynamically to create themed changing displays throughout the gallery. It’ll also enable both a museum-led and user-led curation of online collections.

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Community, Learning and Volunteering Manager

This new role is focused on bringing people close to the museum and its themes – and providing them with engaging and meaningful experiences. We want to amplify the voices of communities within the museum’s galleries, sharing their perspectives on the collection and stories we hold. We’d like to inspire people exploring the galleries – whether it’s for a formal education visit or as part of a leisurely day out in the area. We’ve begun reviewing the options we offer for school visits, taking into consideration current conversations in education as well as opportunities for environmental action, wildlife protection and increased wellbeing.

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Duty Manager

You will meet and welcome our visitors and help them get the most from their visit. The front of house team plays a vital role in our visitors’ experience, and your enthusiasm and knowledge is very important. Visitor safety is very important to us, and Duty Managers play a key role in the evacuation of the building should the need arise.

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Visitor Operations Manager

Managing the Front of House team department, you will oversee the meet and welcome our visitors and ensure your team help them get the most from their visit to us. The front of house team plays a vital role in our visitors’ experience, and your enthusiasm and knowledge in leading this is very important. Visitor safety is very important to us, and all Duty Managers play a key role in the evacuation of the building should the need arise. The onsite management of venue hire bookings you are the point of contact on these days to ensure events run smoothly. A major focus of the role is compliance, communication, consistency and collaboration.

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To apply

To apply for any of these positions, please send a copy of your CV together with a covering letter as to why you would be perfect for the role to recruitment@rrm.co.uk.

We’ll be accepting applications up to midnight on Sunday 3 October.

An assessment day is currently scheduled to be on Tuesday 12 October. Finally, please ensure that you have included your contact number and email address, as well as any dates when you will not be available or might have difficulty with the indicative timetable.

Click here for the full details on the River and Rowing Museum website>>

We’re delighted to be able to offer a number of roles this autumn as part of the Museum’s exciting plans for growth. All these roles are permanent, some are full-time and some are part-time. If you’re interested in more than one role, please send us one version of your CV with supporting statements for each of the roles you’re applying for. We’ll be running an assessment day which will include some group assessments and some individual assessments tailored to the role(s) you’ve applied for. Download the Summary of RRM Autumn 2021 recruitment. Curator This really is an exciting time to take on the role of Curator here. In the next eighteen months we’ll have the best knowledge of our whole collection to date, and urgent work to stabilise the environmental conditions in the galleries will have been completed. Supported by a Collections Registrar with excellent knowledge and management of the collection, and a Curatorial Technician to help create striking temporary displays – you’ll be able to use your creativity and interpretation skills to huge advantage and impact. Main purpose of the role: • Ensure the best care of the collection both on display and in storage. • Use the collection to engage audiences and share compelling stories. • Design and deliver regularly changing displays in the museum galleries Essential selection criteria • Experience of working in a curatorial team within a busy museum or gallery open to the public (50k+ annual visitors) • Broad experience of collections management and care, including awareness of Accreditation, SPECTRUM-compliance – and knowledge of the systems and resources to support these • Educated to degree level or equivalent in Museum or Heritage Studies, Art, History of Art or similar • Excellent skills in supporting, coaching, challenging and motivating others, including managing staff with specific skills • Track record of devising, planning, managing and delivering high quality interpretation and public engagement activity such as displays (both permanent and temporary), talks and tours – and adapting style and approach to suit various audiences • Knowledge and experience of Accreditation returns • Experience of planning and managing budgets • Skilled in collaboration and experience in working with multidisciplinary teams • Able to make clear decisions, develop options appraisals and constantly learn from mistakes as well as successes • Skilled in scaling ideas to suit constraints in time, budget and complexity Click here to download the Job pack RRM Curator September 2021 Click here to download the RRM Equal opportunities monitoring form. To apply for this position, please send a copy of your CV together with a covering letter as to why you would be perfect for this role to recruitment@rrm.co.uk by midnight on Sunday 3 October. An assessment day is currently scheduled to be on Tuesday 12 October. Finally, please ensure that you have included your contact number and email address, as well as any dates when you will not be available or might have difficulty with the indicative timetable. Curatorial Technician This new role will work on several different curatorial tasks to make sure that the museum collection is cared for and shown to the highest standards. The Curatorial Technician will work with the Curator on monitoring and responding to the environmental conditions in the galleries and undertake some integrated pest management work too. They’ll work with volunteers to carry out conservation cleaning in the galleries, including management and development of the outdoor gallery areas. The skills they bring and develop within the role will ensure that collection items are transported, handled, and displayed to minimise irreversible damage. Main purpose of the role: • Support the monitoring and care of all collection items. • Ensure collection items are stored, transported and handled to the highest standards. • Work with the Curator on assembling visually striking and impactful displays using collection items and others. Key Responsibilities • Work with the Curator to monitor environmental conditions in all collections display and storage areas, and undertake or supervise remedial action if undesirable conditions or pests are detected • Ensure the collection is stored and displayed to the highest standards to ensure its ongoing integrity • Follow agreed procedures for all aspects of receiving temporary loans for displays, including working with lenders technical staff • Set up work areas for collections audit, research and remedial conservation activity • Develop own skills in object handling through training and share best practice throughout the museum team • Manage the use of lighting, projection, audio and digital media in displays • Work with volunteers and contractors in delivery of the indoor and outdoor gallery conservation maintenance plans • Take responsibility for all collections display equipment, developing or procuring new equipment as required. Click here to download the Job pack RRM Curatorial Technician September 2021 Click here to download the RRM Equal opportunities monitoring form. To apply for this position, please send a copy of your CV together with a covering letter as to why you would be perfect for this role to recruitment@rrm.co.uk. We’ll be accepting applications up to midnight on Sunday 3 October. An assessment day is currently scheduled to be on Tuesday 12 October. Finally, please ensure that you have included your contact number and email address, as well as any dates when you will not be available or might have difficulty with the indicative timetable. Collections Registrar This new role will initially manage a project involving a team of trained volunteers to audit all the museum’s collection. We hope this will be finished towards the end of 2022. The audit will help the museum take a strategic approach to the ongoing acquisition and disposal of items, together with management of loans. The Collections Registrar will be key in reporting on the nature of the collection to help with decision making. On an ongoing basis, this role will manage the knowledge of the collection: its movements, recording and storage. This will enable the Curator to use the collection dynamically to create themed changing displays throughout the gallery. It’ll also enable both a museum-led and user-led curation of online collections. Main purpose of the role: • Ensure the museum has the best knowledge possible of its collection. • Manage the acquisition, disposal, and loan arrangements of the collection. • Share knowledge of the collection with museum colleagues, visitors and online communities. Key Responsibilities • Complete the full audit of the museum’s collection (begun in May 2021, due to end late 2022) and ensure the collection is accurately recorded on an ongoing basis • Ensure the museum’s documentation procedure manual is fit for purpose and applied • Manage and record all communications with ongoing and temporary lenders, liaising with the Curator and Director where necessary to ensure excellent stakeholder relations • Respond to offers of donations, using the museum collection development policy Support the Curator in searching and selecting items for temporary displays, based on various thematic, conservation and practical criteria • Facilitate the curation by the museum, and by various communities of online galleries using the museum’s accessible collections database • Recruit, select, train and develop a team of volunteers to help fulfil research enquiries and other collections knowledge work • Follow the museum’s volunteer journey and strategy in all volunteering activity • Follow the Collections Trust SPECTRUM procedures and train others to do likewise • Work with good object handling, packing and marking skills and develop own and others’ skills in information and data management • Ensure all collections data follows GDPR • Use the collections database to provide key decision makers with information. Click here to download the Job pack RRM Collections Registrar September 2021 Click here to download the RRM Equal opportunities monitoring form. To apply for this position, please send a copy of your CV together with a covering letter as to why you would be perfect for this role to recruitment@rrm.co.uk. We’ll be accepting applications up to midnight on Sunday 3 October. An assessment day is currently scheduled to be on Tuesday 12 October. Finally, please ensure that you have included your contact number and email address, as well as any dates when you will not be available or might have difficulty with the indicative timetable. Community, Learning and Volunteering Manager This new role is focussed on bringing people close to the museum and its themes – and providing them with engaging and meaningful experiences. We want to amplify the voices of communities within the museum’s galleries, sharing their perspectives on the collection and stories we hold. We’d like to inspire people exploring the galleries – whether it’s for a formal education visit or as part of a leisurely day out in the area. We’ve begun reviewing the options we offer for school visits, taking into consideration current conversations in education as well as opportunities for environmental action, wildlife protection and increased wellbeing. Main purpose of the role: • Identify and engage with communities to gain involvement and perspective. • Use a range of methods to animate the museum galleries. • Take on the strategic lead for volunteering across the museum. Key Responsibilities • Develop a network of community contacts to undertake ongoing conversation and involvement • Work with the Curator to share community perspectives on the museum collection and stories to diversify voices within the galleries and create inspiring and reflective experiences • Develop insight into the visitor audience and identify unrepresented communities • Work with the Head of Public Engagement to develop plans for outreach work to further the museum’s reach and impact • Apply a high level of openness, empathy and facilitation to begin and progress conversations with communities to achieve sustainable diversity and inclusion • Work with the Curator and Visitor Operations Manager to develop the capacity and capability of volunteer animators to bring the gallery to life using objects, stories and demonstrations • Facilitate the involvement of Museum Tutors in the design, development, delivery and review of formal and informal learning activities • Ensure that school visits are designed, delivered and reviewed to maintain safeguarding and to achieve maximum impact, liaising with the Bookings Coordinator as required • Develop and work within an evaluation framework to proportionately measure and continuously improve reach and impact • Champion best practice in volunteering across the museum, using the volunteering strategy to ensure all volunteer managers are upholding the highest standards • Review volunteering activity with volunteer managers and volunteer groups in order to measure success and shape future direction • Take responsibility for volunteering as part of the museum’s supporter journey, and work closely with other supporter development colleagues • Prepare and manage the community, learning and volunteering budget, seeking opportunities for external funding where possible • Represent the River and Rowing Museum in community engagement, learning and volunteering networks, drawing on best practice, training, innovation, partnership opportunities and sharing learning. • Provide the Executive team and Board of Trustees with community, learning and volunteering information to support strategic decision making. Click here to download the Job pack RRM CLV September 2021 Click here to download the RRM Equal opportunities monitoring form. To apply for this position, please send a copy of your CV together with a covering letter as to why you would be perfect for this role to recruitment@rrm.co.uk. We’ll be accepting applications up to midnight on Sunday 3 October. An assessment day is currently scheduled to be on Tuesday 12 October. Finally, please ensure that you have included your contact number and email address, as well as any dates when you will not be available or might have difficulty with the indicative timetable. Duty Manager You will meet and welcome our visitors and help them get the most from their visit. The front of house team plays a vital role in our visitors’ experience, and your enthusiasm and knowledge is very important. Visitor safety is very important to us, and Duty Managers play a key role in the evacuation of the building should the need arise. Main purpose of the role: • Oversee the smooth running of the public areas of the Museum, the admission desk, ticketing and the shop with particular focus on customer service • Act as the first point of contact and welcome for all visitors to the museum and shop. Key Responsibilities:  • Responsible for the day-to-day operation of the venue providing excellent customer service for all • Responsible for the safety and security of everybody on site, leading on the evacuation of the building in case of emergency • Supervise and brief the volunteers • Train, support, supervise and develop the front of house team • Ensure that cashing up and cash handling procedures are adhered to in line with the organisation’s financial regulations • Use the museums internal systems to process payments, ticket sales and venue hire • In liaison with the Retail co-ordinator be responsible for the administration and operation of the online shop including uploading product onto the ecommerce platform and driving sales both online and in person. Be part of the development of the e–commerce strategy. • Ensure that all sales of alcohol are undertaken in line with the terms of the venue’s licensing requirements. • Ensure that daily briefings are carried out so that all volunteers and staff, including Café are briefed and aware of their priorities and responsibilities for the day • Complete end of day report and email to distribution list ensuring all feedback and issues are reported – following up on any urgent areas of concern • Feedback any day to day operational issues to your manager and Head of Facilities. Click here to download the Job pack RRM Duty Manager September 2021 Click here to download the RRM Equal opportunities monitoring form. To apply for this position, please send a copy of your CV together with a covering letter as to why you would be perfect for this role to recruitment@rrm.co.uk. We’ll be accepting applications up to midnight on Sunday 3 October. An assessment day is currently scheduled to be on Tuesday 12 October. Finally, please ensure that you have included your contact number and email address, as well as any dates when you will not be available or might have difficulty with the indicative timetable. Visitor Operations Manager Managing the Front of House team department, you will oversee the meet and welcome our visitors and ensure your team help them get the most from their visit to us. The front of house team plays a vital role in our visitors’ experience, and your enthusiasm and knowledge in leading this is very important. Visitor safety is very important to us, and all Duty Managers play a key role in the evacuation of the building should the need arise. The onsite management of venue hire bookings you are the point of contact on these days to ensure events run smoothly. A major focus of the role is compliance, communication, consistency and collaboration. Main purpose of the role: • Manage the day-to-day front of house services and teams • Ensure the building remains open and complaint • Take responsibility for all visitor data bases and front desk systems including museum shop services and visitors overall experience. Key Responsibilities • Responsible for the day-to-day operation of the venue providing excellent customer service for all – working on the front desk you are the first point of contact to the museum • Responsible for the safety and security of everybody on site, leading on the evacuation of the building in case of emergency • Ensure that the front of house staffing levels are sufficient in terms of both number and experience to enable the Museum to operate properly including rotas and payroll (paid staff and volunteers) • Train, support, supervise and develop the front of house team and volunteers • Ensure that cashing up and cash handling procedures are adhered to in line with the organisation’s financial regulations • In liaison with the Retail co-ordinator be responsible for the administration and operation of all elements of the shop including uploading product onto the e-commerce platform and driving sales both online and in person. Be part of the development of the e–commerce strategy. • Ensure that daily briefings are carried out so that all volunteers and staff, including Café are briefed and aware of their priorities and responsibilities for the day • Complete end of day report and email to distribution list ensuring all feedback and issues are reported – following up on any urgent areas of concern • Disseminate the venue information to the rest of the DM team and ensure that they have sufficient information to brief volunteers. Click here to download the Job pack RRM Visitor Operations Manager September 2021. Click here to download the RRM Equal opportunities monitoring form. To apply for this position, please send a copy of your CV together with a covering letter as to why you would be perfect for this role to recruitment@rrm.co.uk. We’ll be accepting applications up to midnight on Sunday 3 October. An assessment day is currently scheduled to be on Tuesday 12 October. Finally, please ensure that you have included your contact number and email address, as well as any dates when you will not be available or might have difficulty with the indicative timetable.

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