Assistant Volunteer Coordinator - Digitisation
Assistant Volunteer Coordinator - Digitisation
We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Volunteer Coordinator to assist with delivering our Digitisation Volunteer Programme. Reporting to the Digitisation Volunteer Coordinator the postholder will be a member of the Digital Collections team in Kew’s Digital Revolution Department and part of a large project team. The postholder will support volunteers contributing to the digitisation effort. They will supervise onsite volunteers digitising Herbarium specimens and prepare online crowdsourcing projects for remote volunteers.
RBG Kew have commenced work on an exciting and unique project to digitise Kew’s 8.5 million plant and fungal specimens and create a complete catalogue of our internationally significant collections, making specimen records and images freely available online and accessible to researchers across the globe.
The outcome of this project will provide a unique, world-leading resource making accessible data from more than 260 years of scientific exploration, placing them at the centre of efforts to combat urgent global challenges such as habitat degradation, climate change and human health.
In addition, RBG Kew have recruited staff to support the implementation of a new collections management system to ensure efficient and effective integrated management of the Science and Living Collections and the data describing them.
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Essential skills and experience required for this role include: excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a strong people focus, high attention to detail especially on working with large datasets, experience of working with natural history, cultural heritage or archival collections (gained from employment or volunteering) and excellent time management and organisational skills.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) is a leading plant science institute, UNESCO World Heritage Site, and major visitor attraction. Our mission is to understand and protect plants and fungi for the well-being of people and the future of all life on Earth.
We are working to end the unprecedented extinction crisis and to help create a world where nature is protected, valued by all and managed sustainably. We will achieve these goals by drawing on our leading scientific research, unrivalled collections of plants and fungi, global network of partners, inspirational gardens at Kew and Wakehurst, and our 260 years of history.
Join us on our journey as protectors of the world’s plants and fungi.
The salary for this position is £28,550 per annum [Band B]
Our fantastic benefits package includes opportunities for continuous learning, a generous annual leave entitlement, flexible working to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance, an Employee Assistance Programme and other wellbeing support such as cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership. We also offer a competitive pension, an employee discount scheme and free entry into a wide range of national museums and galleries, as well as access to our own beautiful gardens at Kew and Wakehurst.
If you are interested in this position, please submit your application through the online portal, by clicking “Apply for this job”.
We are dedicated to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to interview disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post.
No agencies please.