Assistant curator - recruitment

The RCP is currently recruiting an assistant curator. Details are below and on our website www.rcplondon.ac.uk/jobs  

Best wishes, Emma

Emma Shepley | Curator

Library, Archive & Museum Services | Royal College of Physicians

Direct line +44 (0)20 3075 1510

Assistant curator

Royal College of Physicians, London

c. £25,000 per annum depending on skills

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is looking for an energetic and creative museum professional to join our team as assistant curator. The post is an exciting opportunity to work with the RCP’s accredited museum collections with responsibility for preservation, documentation and development.

Based at the RCP’s Grade 1 listed headquarters in Regent’s Park, you will work with the curator to increase access to and awareness of the RCP’s outstanding collections and history, as well as developing and delivering our exhibitions and events programme. For further information on the RCP museum visit www.rcplondon.ac.uk/museum-and-garden

A team player, you combine museum cataloguing and collection management experience and have a recognised museum postgraduate qualification. You are an excellent communicator and public speaker with proven project management skills, good levels of IT literacy and experience working to museum accreditation standards.

In return we offer excellent benefits including 27 day of annual leave, a first class pension scheme, free lunches, season ticket loan (after probation) and much more.  In addition, you will be working in a friendly environment in an attractive location opposite Regent’s Park.

To informally discuss this position, please email Emma Shepley, curator: emma.shepley@rcplondon.ac.uk

For a full job description and application form, please visit www.rcplondon.ac.uk/jobs or email ps.recruitment@rcplondon.ac.uk quoting reference LAM107.  Please note that CVs sent in isolation will not be considered. Closing date for applications: 21 November 2012 (by 5pm). Interviews: 29 November 2012.