UE05 (£24,285.00 - 27,929.00 per annum)

Heritage Collections (Library & University Collections, Information Services)

Full-time, 35 hours per week

Fixed term, 3.5 years

Heritage Collections is looking for a Collections Care Technician for its expanding Conservation & Collections Management team.

The Opportunity:

The post holder will work alongside a team of skilled and experienced conservation and collections management professionals within a dynamic and supportive environment, to preserve and make accessible the University’s globally significant collections.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Proven skills and experience in the safe handling and movement of collections within a library/archive/museum/gal lery environment .
• Knowledge of collections care and documentation, and an understanding of collections -related best practice.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, including strong team - working skil ls .
• Ability to organise and deliver work within agreed timescales to a high level of accuracy .
• Flexible approach to changing tasks, work environment and approaches to working practice

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews will be held in January 2023.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

For more information please contact Katharine Richardson (Katharine.Richardson@ed.ac.uk).

The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.