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 DiSSCo UK
The Distributed System of Scientific Collections UK (DiSSCo UK, https://www.dissco-uk.org/) is a consortium of UK natural science collections, led by the Natural History Museum in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), who are developing a national infrastructure to support the digitisation and use of the UK’s natural science collections to support critical research.
About the role
We’re looking for a detail-focused and forward-thinking Digitisation Quality Assurance Lead to shape how data quality is delivered across the DiSSCo UK programme.
This is a unique opportunity to design and embed a national approach to quality for digitised natural science collections. Working across the Natural History Museum and a network of UK-wide digitisation hubs, you will ensure that data and images meet consistent, high standards and are ready for long-term research and public use.
You will lead the development of end-to-end QA/QC processes, combining frontline digitiser checks, automated validation, sampling and post-capture assurance. Working closely with data, digitisation and innovation teams, you will also help develop and implement AI-enabled QA approaches, including human-in-the-loop workflows and continuous model improvement.
Alongside this, you’ll support teams across the programme to embed best practice, providing clear guidance, training and troubleshooting support. You’ll play a key role in identifying and resolving systemic data quality issues, improving workflows, and ensuring alignment with international standards such as Darwin Core and GBIF.
This role offers the opportunity to influence how quality is managed at scale, contributing to a major national research infrastructure programme.
About you
Are you a data quality specialist who enjoys building robust processes and improving systems at scale? If you’re motivated by ensuring data is accurate, consistent and fit for purpose, and enjoy working across teams to make that happen, this could be the role for you.
You bring experience designing and applying QA/QC processes for data, ideally within digitisation, collections or research environments. You’re comfortable combining manual and automated approaches, and have experience working with tools, scripts or workflows that support data validation and quality assurance.
You are a strong problem solver who can identify root causes, resolve complex data issues and drive continuous improvement. You’re equally comfortable working with technical teams and domain specialists, and can communicate complex concepts clearly to a range of audiences.
If you enjoy working in collaborative, multi-institution environments and influencing without direct authority, you will thrive here. You take a structured, detail-oriented approach, while maintaining a focus on practical delivery and impact, and you are motivated by improving data quality to support research, innovation and wider access to natural science collections.
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.
Please note that as part of our commitment to anonymised shortlisting, panels do not view CVs during the recruitment process. If you choose to upload your CV, our system will automatically pull information from your CV into our application form. We advise you to double-check your application form data before submitting as the tool may interpret CVs differently.
We’re delighted that many of our vacancies attract a high level of interest. To ensure that every application receives the time and careful consideration it deserves, we closely monitor the number of applications we receive. In some cases, where interest is particularly high, we may close a vacancy to new applications ahead of the advertised closing date. Taking this approach helps us manage the process efficiently while maintaining a fair and thorough shortlisting process for all candidates. We therefore encourage early applications where possible.
Closing date: 23:59 on 14th April 2026
Interviews expected: w/c 20th April 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.
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