Salary £30,000
Location Cromwell Road, London
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This is a fixed term contract, full time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx: xx} BST.
The Role
The V&A is undertaking a two-year project to review our stored collections. This includes improving collections documentation, care, and accountability, reorganisation of offsite and onsite storage, and the review of long-term loans.
We are recruiting a fixed-term Collections Storage Officer role, until the 31 March 2028, to form part of a small project team who are undertaking this work, working alongside specialist teams from across the V&A.
The Role
You will carry out collections storage-related activities, across multiple V&A London sites and offsite stores. This will include supervising and working alongside external contractors to undertake object movement and transport as part of storage reorganisation work.
You will undertake object handling and packing, ensuring objects are packed and stored in accordance with collections care standards, and oversee object location control and accountability.
We are looking for someone with experience of practical work with a museum collection or archive, including object handling, and experience of using a collections management system or digital asset management systems. You will need the ability to lift and carry and be comfortable working at height and in a museum stores environment.
Significant interpersonal skills, flexibility to work across sites and travel to offsite stores, and the ability to manage and prioritise multiple tasks are very important for this role.
For more information, please read the attached job description.
The V&A
The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
Our mission is to be recognised as the world's leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people's lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience. We strive to make the V&A matter to more people and in that context we work to the following six strategic objectives:
To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.
Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.
Expand the V&A's international reach, reputation and impact.
To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.
Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.
Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.
The Benefits
Benefits
Generous pension scheme
29 days plus bank holidays
Flexible working
Tickets to V&A exhibitions
Subsidised staff canteen
25% discount in V&A shops
Give as you earn scheme
Bicycle loan
Interest-free season ticket
Interest-free rental deposit loan
Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike
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Wide range of training and professional development opportunities
Employee Assistance Programme
Staff diversity networks
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ED&I at The V&A
At the V&A, we are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for all and strive to go above and beyond public duty placed upon us by the Equality Act 2010. As such, we are delighted to share that we are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2. The V&A makes the following commitments to all applications:
The Disability Confident Employer scheme offers guaranteed interviews – Interviewing applicants with a disability who successfully evidence the essential criteria on a person specification and consider them on their abilities;
Providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
Making reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process so disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job.
Supporting employees and adjustments during employment.
In some circumstances, such as when we receive a high volume of applications that meet the minimum criteria, we may not be able to guarantee an interview under the scheme. In these cases, we will interview only the highest-scoring applicants, from both people with disabilities and people without a disability.
Job Descriptions are currently uploaded as PDF's, if for any reason you require the documents in Word Format, please email
[email protected] with your request.
