Job Description
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.
About the role
The planetary emergency demands large-scale action, supported by new and ambitious science that can provide solutions from and for nature. We are looking for a passionate and proactive UK Nature Recovery and Community Science Coordinatorto join the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Nature team.
The Centre delivers a range of programmes that are collectively working to advance scientific understanding of the UK’s natural world and enable people to act in support of the UK’s nature. The Centre delivers applied nature recovery science, UK natural history training and an internationally respected community science programme. It provides access to UK natural history collections, self-study facilities, information and advice to nature enthusiasts of all ages and abilities.
The Centre also leads two exciting new thematic areas of Museum Science: UK Nature Recovery and Community Science. These themes are working together to accelerate nature recovery in the UK and beyond, by building the scientific evidence-base and developing people’s knowledge, skills and agency to take informed action in support of nature.
The role will jointly report to the Head and Deputy Head of Centre and will involve working closely with Centre staff, Museum colleagues and external stakeholders to promote and develop the content and impact of these science themes and the Centre more broadly. As well as coordinating and helping to deliver digital communications and scientific workshops, the postholder will support the hands-on delivery of the Centre’s UK nature recovery-focused science and community science projects.
This is a development role and we will provide training and mentoring to help fill any gaps in your knowledge and experience. There will be opportunity to specialise in one or more areas of our work as the role progresses.
About you
The successful candidate will have a passion and commitment for helping to shape a brighter future for the UK’s nature and people and an awareness of key opportunities and challenges for furthering nature recovery in the UK. Practical experience of biological recording or biodiversity monitoring, knowledge of community and citizen science, and the ability to build good working relationships with public and professional stakeholders will be essential to role delivery. The ideal candidate will have strong organisational and science communication skills and experience of developing collaborative activities and events.
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 sitesand 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
How to apply
If that sounds like you, please apply online on the Natural History Museum’s careers portal,
at https://careers.nhm.ac.uk/
Closing date: 09.00am on Tuesday 9th May
Interviews expected w/c 29th May
Salary: £32,112 per annum (Science Level 2)
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.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £32,112.00 per year
Benefits:
- Canteen
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- Gym membership
- On-site gym
- Sick pay
- Store discount
Schedule:
Work Location: One location
Application deadline: 09/05/2023
Reference ID: Natural History Museum
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