Job Description
About Us
We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum's unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.
Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.
We employ 1100 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.
Diversity and inclusion matter to us.
Our vision is of a future where both people and the planet thrive. Diversity is one of our core values and we strive to build a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. All new staff who join us learn about the importance of diversity and inclusion to the Museum and how to contribute to creating an inclusive environment.
We know we have more to do, but we are committed to ensuring that everyone who works at the Museum feels they can thrive and feel valued and respected.
About The Role
The Natural History Museum (NHM) is seeking a Data Integration Specialist to lead the integration and analysis of data contributions from the UK’s Natural Science Collections community to the Heritage Science Data Service (HSDS) — an emerging national infrastructure for managing and sharing heritage science data across the Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) sector.
Hosted at the Natural History Museum, this post will act as the lead contact for HSDS within the Museum and will work closely with the DiSSCo UK initiative — a major national programme supporting the digitisation and data infrastructure for the UK’s natural science collections. The role will bridge the integration and analytical needs of both programmes, ensuring that heritage and natural science data are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR).
A particular focus of this post will be to work with the UK Earth Science community to design and test data publishing pipelines, trialled with leading geological collections. This work will contribute to developing a national publication workflow for geological and natural science data, aligned with DiSSCo UK and HSDS infrastructures.
About The Heritage Science Data Service (HSDS)
HSDS is part of the RICHeS (Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science) programme, funded by UKRI, to provide a central digital platform for managing and sharing heritage science data. It supports the UK’s GLAM sector by enabling open, interoperable, and reusable data that drives conservation, research, and innovation.
About DiSSCo UK
Led by the Natural History Museum and starting in 2026, DiSSCo UK is a 10-year, £155 million national infrastructure programme that will digitise and mobilise over 140 million natural science specimens from more than 90 UK institutions. It aims to unlock these collections as digital assets for science, policy, and education, contributing to a global network of FAIR data resources.
About You
The appointed person will need to bring proven experience in data or business analysis, especially within research or heritage environments, and are skilled at managing complex datasets and applying metadata standards. Highly organised and collaborative, the appointed person will excel at engaging diverse stakeholders and turning technical requirements into effective, FAIR-aligned workflows. Knowledge of natural science or Earth science collections and digital heritage platforms is an advantage.
Thriving at the Museum: the way we work
We are proud to work at the Museum and have identified the qualities we all need to embody to reach our shared ambition. This sits alongside the Museum’s values and forms the framework for the way we work.
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What We Offer
* 27.5 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (full time equivalent)
* Generous defined contribution Natural History Museum Pension Scheme (employer contribution 4 - 10%)
* Season ticket, bicycle and rental loan
* Life insurance
* Free admission to our exhibitions and many other paid exhibitions at museums, galleries and institutions across London and the UK.
* Staff discount at our Museum shops and cafes
* We offer a wide variety of training initiatives and opportunities to build skills. Investing in staff development is important to us, and we are ambitious about helping staff to grow and fulfil their potential.
* Affordable membership to the Civil Service Sports Council which offers a range of benefits including an extensive list of special offers and reduced entry fees at a selection of cinema chains, theme parks, theatres, retailers and supermarkets. It also provides entry to up to 300 English Heritage sites and other national treasures. For more details, visit https://www.cssc.co.uk
* Membership to our Sports and Social Association (for a small fee), which includes access to our in-house gym and clubs such as football, softball, table tennis and tennis and classes in Middle Eastern dance, yoga and Tai Chi
Hybrid working
We are working towards a vision where both people and planet thrive, and nothing gives a greater connection with this, than seeing first-hand, the visitors, scientific research and collections that all of our work is inspired by and working side by side with the teams delivering the visitor experience and events. We also recognise the benefits and flexibility that hybrid working brings. We operate a hybrid working model that requires regular, weekly attendance for this role, with the precise pattern of days on site and worked from home to be agreed with your manager.
How To Apply
If this sounds like you, please apply below by clicking on Apply for job.
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Closing date: 5 January 2026 at 23:59
Interviews expected: w/c 19 January 2026
Please note that this role does not qualify for Museum sponsorship so the successful postholder will need to have a valid right to work in the UK at the point of offer.