Digital Collections Data and Workflow Manager
Digital Collections Data and Workflow Manager
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding individual as our new Data & Workflow Manager. The individual should be highly experienced in successfully designing and implementing digitisation workflows with excellent data handling and data curation skills.
This role will help support the Science Collection Digitisation Project, an exciting and unique project to digitise RBG 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 data accessible 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.
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This role will lead the team tackling the digitisation of the specimens that were highlighted during the mass digitisation process as the most complex and needing post digitisation attention.
This role will also support the design of new digital curation workflows as the digital collection records expand in number as digitisation progresses the effort needed for digital curation will increase and new processes need to be put in place and existing workflows streamlined.
The individual should also have excellent problem solving skills and have successfully designed, implemented and improved digitisation workflows. Essential skills and experience required for this role include significant experience in the administration, manipulation, analysis, and interpretation of datasets, including transfer of data between database systems.
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 £36,338 per annum (pro rata) [Band D].
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.