Position at King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry museum

Conservator
Doncaster Council

Doncaster Council are looking for a museum conservator to clean and
conserve objects for the re-display of the King's Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry museum and to oversee a programme of volunteers who
will assist you in this work.

The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry museum is a small museum
that has received a generous UKP204,000 grant from the Heritage
Lottery Fund for the re-display of the entire gallery. We are
looking for somebody to work on all the objects for re-display,
ranging from a uniform worn at the Battle of Waterloo to gas masks
worn in the trenches and a 19th century machine gun. The displays
will be brought up to date with objects from the Rifles (the KOYLI
successor body).

We will expect you to have a degree (or equivalent) in historic
object conservation and at least six months paid or volunteer
experience of working in a museum environment, or similar. It would
be an advantage to have worked with a wide variety of objects,
although this post would be ideal for anyone seeking such
experience. You will need to be organised and good at getting on
with people, as well as in explaining basic conservation cleaning
techniques to volunteers. You will be managed by the Museum's
Assistant Manager (Conservation and Collections Care), who will also
be available to assist with a discussion of conservation techniques
and requirements.

This is a five month full-time post.

For an informal discussion please phone either Carolyn Dalton,
Manager (Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery) or Graham Key, Assistant
Manager (Conservation and Collections Care) on +44 1302 734285.

Leigh Hemmings
Recruitment Officer
Floor 8
Council House
College Road
Doncaster DN1 3DA
+44 1302 737751
Fax: +44 1302 737001


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