About the role
The Natural History Museum has recently received funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Digital Accelerator for Arts and Culture, which supports arts organisations through strategic improvements to technology infrastructure. This funding will help us scale up our mass digitisation capabilities in preparation for DiSSCo UK, a £155 million, 10-year programme to digitise natural science collections held in the UK.
We are seeking a Digitiser to support our curatorial teams in preparing for mass digitisation, and to digitise specimens in our entomological and herbarium collections. As a Digitiser you will work directly with the rest of our Digitisation Team, curatorial teams, and Data Management Team to capture digital images of specimens and their associated data. You will represent the museum in tours and official events. You will get the opportunity to present your work through the creation of digitisation content for social media and articles including blogs, datasets, reports and publications.
This role sits within the Digital, Data and Informatics (DDI) group within our Science Directorate. DDI is responsible for the museum’s mass digitisation, collections data management, scientific AI applications, and the delivery of DiSSCo UK. You will report to the Digitisation Team Lead and work closely with the team’s Senior Digitisers.
About you
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 900 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.
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
About Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum in London is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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