Collections Management Assistant

October 14, 2024

The Royal Household

London

OTHER & FULL TIME

Household / Department

Royal Collection Trust

Location

Buckingham Palace

Contract/recruitment type

Permanent

Starting salary

£27,000 per annum

Hours of work

37.5 hours per week

About the role

It’s documenting a collection for future generations
It's feeling proud of the part you play. It's the joy of caring for one of the world's great collections. This is what makes working for Royal Collection Trust so different.
In quality and diversity, the collection of works of art in Royal Collection Trust's care is breath-taking.
Key responsibilities:

As part of our Collections Management team, you’ll help document varied items in the Collection, ensuring the Collections Management database has every item recorded accurately.
Collaborating with a range of teams within Royal Collection Trust and the Royal Household, you’ll assist with custodial control across Buckingham Palace.
You’ll help assist with inventory and condition checking, cross-referencing historic inventories and updating locations and conservation information on the Collections Management System.

Collaborating with colleagues who are experts in their fields, and working with such a variety of items, will both stretch and develop your experience. In all you do, you’ll help document items within our collection for years to come.

About you

Essential Criteria

Practical experience in a museum, collection environment or other organisations handling fragile goods coupled with a broad interest in the history of art, in particular Decorative Arts, British and Royal history, you're ready to make the next step in your career.
With great IT skills and have experience of using database systems.
Organised and self-managed, you're able to deliver projects either independently or with the team.
As an excellent communicator and a natural team player, you’ll enjoy working with colleagues across departments to achieve high standards, collaboratively solving problems.

Above all, you'll be keen to grow your understanding around the challenges of cataloguing an historic collection, and be eager to take advantage of the many learning opportunities that the Collection presents.

Benefits

We know that to deliver our best work; we need to feel at our best. That’s why at the Royal Household we offer a generous benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and life priorities.
Enjoy 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days (plus bank holidays) dependent on the length of time you have worked for us.
Our excellent non-contributory pension plan (we’ll contribute5% and you can contribute more if you wish) is highly valued by our employees, as is complimentary lunch on-site to keep you fuelled throughout the day.
We also offer a range of leave options to support your life priorities, such as parental pay and leave and volunteering days, as well as benefits to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
Other perks include 20% off at our Royal Collection Trust Shops and complimentary admission tickets across all our locations, along with many more exclusive employee discounts.
Find out more about the full range of benefits available to our employees here.