Preventive Conservator (Projects)
Join IWM as a Preventive Conservator (Projects) and play a key role in preserving our world-class collections. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a wide range of projects, including loans, temporary exhibitions, gallery rotations, and master planning initiatives.
About the Role:As part of the Preservation Team within the department of Collections Care, you will:
- Deliver preservation programmes across IWM sites, supporting exhibitions, loans, and gallery projects.
- Implement Integrated Pest Management, environmental monitoring and control, hazard awareness, and emergency planning.
- Provide expert advice on collections care, including risk assessments, environmental analysis, and safe display practices.
- Support specialist projects such as light management and the care of light-sensitive, mixed media collections.
- Collaborate with colleagues across departments to ensure best practices in preventive conservation. What We're Looking For:
- A qualification in preventive conservation, museum studies, or equivalent experience
- Strong knowledge of agents of deterioration and preventive conservation principles
- Experience with environmental monitoring, light recording, and reporting
- Skilled in analysing environmental data to support decision-making
- Confident in assessing the condition of mixed media collections
- Willingness to travel across IWM sites as required If you're passionate about preventive conservation and want to make a lasting impact on the care of nationally significant collections, we'd love to hear from you. Please note this is a 1-year fixed term contract. For a full list of duties and the person specification (which your application will be marked against) please view the Job Description.
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