Position: Conservator F
AO Pay Rate: £16.45 per hour
Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week
Start Date: As soon as possible
Location: Belfast
Length of Contract: 31/12/2025
Benefits working with NICS:
1. On the job training provided
2. Long term opportunity
3. Gain valuable skills and progress your career
4. Diverse and inclusive employer with active social mobility policies
Hours of Work: 9 to 5 Monday to Friday
Job Duties:
– Interventive Conservator for project support.
– Research, document and complete interventive treatment on archival collections at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland under the supervision of the conservation manager.
– To support work carried out by a conservation manager to scope photographic/film collections and support engagement activities around USA250 celebrations.
– Support the digitisation team with the imaging of collections.
Essential Criteria:
– MA in a practical conservation course or equivalent workplace training.
– Experience of evaluating conservation damage and risks. Successful completion of treatments and documentation according to ICON Professional Standards or ICRI Code of Conduct on paper-based collections, books or film.
– Understanding of preventive conservation and passive measures to lower the rate of deterioration
Desirable Criteria:
– Experience of working with large archive collections.