EMKP Project Curator: Digital - London

EMKP Project Curator: Digital - London

Hybrid at least 3 days per week on-site in Bloomsbury, London
Fixed term contract to 31 November 2029
£36,396 per annum
Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 7 April 2026

About the role

Join the British Museum’s largest digital programme - the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (EMKP) - and play a key role in preserving global craft, architectural, technological and cultural knowledge. As Project Curator: Digital, you’ll help drive EMKP’s digital strategy, manage and audit digital assets for its open‑access repository, and strengthen the programme’s digital platforms, workflows and accessibility. You’ll work with researchers and communities worldwide, supporting digital preservation, teaching digital skills, and contributing to public‑facing digital content and dissemination.

About you

We’re looking for someone with strong digital preservation and asset‑management skills, experience working with digital collections or archives, and a passion for safeguarding cultural knowledge. You’ll be a confident communicator who can collaborate across global networks, deliver training, and support a diverse community of grantees. You thrive in project‑driven environments, balancing deadlines with creative problem‑solving, and bring both technical expertise and cultural sensitivity to your work.

Key areas of responsibility

• Support, maintain and develop EMKP’s digital infrastructure, ensuring systems remain robust, usable and future‑focused.
• Deliver EMKP’s digital preservation strategy by managing the repository, overseeing digital asset ingest and publication, and ensuring best practice in rights, ethics and metadata.
• Audit digital assets submitted by grantees, ensuring accuracy, data quality and smooth publication to the open‑access repository.
• Contribute to EMKP’s digital dissemination by supporting web content, social media outputs and public‑facing digital storytelling.
• Provide digital support, training and capacity‑building for EMKP grantees, colleagues and wider stakeholder communities.

Benefits

We've designed a benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary. Our full list of benefits can be found but we’ve outlined some highlights below:

• Free exhibition entry for you and guests, exclusive private views, ICOM and reciprocal museum access.
• Discounts at onsite catering, Museum shops and local Bloomsbury partners.
• Peer support and allyship with five diversity networks for community.
• Learning and development through courses, mentoring and Athena as well as support for professional qualifications.
• Support for carers through Employers for Carers.
• Civil Service Pension Scheme with a secure, inflation‑linked defined benefit.
• Interest‑free loans including season ticket, rental deposit and bicycle loans.

Our Values

Our values drive everything we do, from how we handle our objects to how we work in our team to fostering a culture where everyone feels heard and empowered:

• Care Deeply
• Embrace the Unknown
• Spark Curiosity
• Value Many Voices

These are a core part of how we recruit. Throughout the application, interview and selection process, we look for examples of how candidates demonstrate these behaviours in their own work and experiences. We encourage you to familiarise yourself with our values and reflect them in your application.

Additional details

At the British Museum, we are committed to a fair and inclusive recruitment process where every applicant has the opportunity to present their genuine strengths and experience in their own voice.

While we recognise that AI tools can be helpful when preparing applications, we expect all submissions to accurately reflect everyone’s skills and background, and we may withdraw applications that appear to be generated entirely by AI.

During interviews, we want to hear directly from candidates and therefore do not permit the use of AI to generate or support answers, though assistive technologies used as reasonable adjustments are fully welcomed.

If you have any additional needs that we should be aware of to support you with your application, please provide details to [email protected] .

*Unfortunately, for this role we are unable to offer Sponsorship to applicants*

The Museum also adheres to the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) for pre-employment screening of Civil Servants.