Contract: Permanent contract, 35 hours per week
Salary: Grade E, £27,997 – £34,257 per annum
Closing date: 26 October 2022 (by 5pm)
Appointment will normally be to the minimum of the salary scale for this grade.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post.
Collections and Research Division, Natural
Sciences Department
An exciting new job working with our botany collections at Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, in particular with lower plants. You will have the opportunity and time to develop new skills and expertise within the role.
What you’ll do…
You join a Botany Section of six staff, working with the Curator of Lower Plants to ensure that this collection is curated and cared for to maximise access and wider use, and through this deliver the Amgueddfa Cymru commitments.
You will use your taxonomic expertise to develop the lower plant collection though collaborative research projects. This will ensure that the collection remains relevant as an environmental reference resource. Training will be provided if your taxonomic experience has previously been with higher plants. You will develop new partnerships with relevant bodies to promote use of the collection.
You will play a role in delivering the Museum’s goal to safeguard and increase biodiversity across its eight sites though biodiversity surveys. These will also involve community and special interest group participation.
You will take part in public events, activities and engage with social media to promote the collection and the Natural Sciences department. Reporting currently to Co-Interim Head of Natural Sciences and to the Head of Botany when the post is appointed.
For complete details, and to apply
https://museum.wales/jobs/current-jobs/?id=1722