Collections Officer
Directorate: Environmental and Community Services
Department: Wellbeing and Culture Service
Salary: Grade E - £30,024 to £33,699 per year pro rata (pay award pending)
Hours: 28 hours per week* (Includes Saturday working on rotation. This is a minimum of one Saturday per month.)
Location: Erewash Museum, High St, Ilkeston, DE7 5JA
Overview
This role will play a central part in shaping how Erewash’s heritage is preserved, interpreted, and shared with our local communities. The role requires solid museum or heritage experience, strong collections care knowledge, and the ability to deliver exhibitions, maintain collections management standards and engage communities with local stories. It involves both public-facing and back-office duties, including supervising casual staff and volunteers, as well as regular travel to display and storage sites across the Borough.
What You Will Do:
* Champion best practice in collections care and documentation, ensuring long term preservation, accuracy, and accessibility of the Borough’s heritage collections.
* Lead the development of the exhibition and display programme, bringing stories to life through thoughtful curation and innovative interpretation.
* Oversee delivery of high quality public engagement programmes rooted in the borough’s history – ranging from talks and tours to school workshops, outreach sessions, and support for researchers.
* Cultivate productive relationships with community partners, Friends, donors, funders, local networks, and specialist groups.
* Provide supportive and effective leadership to casual staff and volunteer teams.
* Act as a keyholder when required, contributing to the smooth and safe daily operation of the museum.
* Deliver collections-focused projects from development to implementation.
* Play an active role in the wider Culture and Heritage Service, contributing professional expertise, insight, and providing operational support to Front of House and Events colleagues.
About You:
* A degree in a relevant discipline.
* Experience working with collections in a museum environment.
* Experience delivering exhibitions.
* Strong knowledge of SPECTRUM, CMS systems such as MODES, and preventative care and conservation methods.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work with a range of stakeholders and engage with the public.
* Willingness and ability to undertake evening and weekend work, including working Saturdays on a rotation.
Benefits of Working for Us
* Generous annual leave package – a pro rata entitlement to 29 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years’ continuous service) plus a pro rata entitlement to 8 bank holidays a year.
* Free workplace car parking within the Borough.
* Opportunities for training, learning and continuous professional development.
* Family friendly flexible and hybrid working policies.
* Option to join the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) plus access to a salary sacrifice scheme for added voluntary pension contributions.
* Discounted leisure membership with the Fit for Work scheme.
* Access to the VIVUP employee benefits discount and salary sacrifice scheme.
Equal Opportunities
This role is only open to applicants who already have the right to work in the UK. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.
The Council is positive about disabled people and those who meet the essential shortlisting requirements will be guaranteed an interview.
The Council supports the Armed Forces Covenant and those who have previously worked in the armed forces and meet the essential shortlisting criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
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