Registrar

1
B1
£37,510 per annum
Permanent
Full Time
Starting at 30 days per annum, pro-rata

27th May 2019 at 23:55

tbc

The Role 

The Registrar provides specialist professional advice for the Curator’s Office teams and takes the lead in delivering a range of work which underpins the security, safety and display of Parliament’s art collection (inc works on loan).  The Registrar has close working relationships with the Collections Care Managers and the Collections Information Managers and provides collections management leadership ensuring a high standard of practice, as well as having an active role in incident management and salvage policy and delivery.   

This is an exciting and important period for Parliament’s heritage collections as preparations are made for the decant of large areas of the Parliamentary Estate for the Northern Estates Project (NEP) and Restoration and Renewal (R&R) project (https://restorationandrenewal.parliament.uk/).  The Registrar will have a key role in advising on and influencing planning the work required to prepare the Collections, particularly the Parliamentary Art Collection for decant. 

 

The Person 

The successful candidate will have the following skills/experience: 

  • Museum professional with significant experience as a Registrar at a public sector museum or art gallery or in a historic house context 

  • Well developed organisational and project management skills and experience, including drafting contract documentation 

  • Good working professional knowledge of policy for collections management with significant experience of collections registrar functions 

 

This Vacancy is closed to applications.