Fashion Museum Documentation Manager

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Service Area: Heritage Services

Department: Sustainable Communities

Bath & North East Somerset lies between the Cotswold and Mendip areas of outstanding natural beauty. The city of Bath is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, built around Britain’s only thermal springs.

Heritage Services runs the Roman Baths & Pump Room, the Fashion Museum, Victoria Art Gallery, and Bath Record Office. The collections at the Roman Baths, Fashion Museum and Bath Record Office are Designated by government as being nationally / internationally important.

It’s an exciting time in the history of the Fashion Museum, as the service undertakes a major project to relocate the word class collection within the city centre.

As Fashion Museum Documentation Manager, you will have the opportunity to influence the new museum, and the planned collection study centre at Locksbrook, helping to make both must-visit destinations. You will be part of a small team working to improve the data and accessibility of information about this world-class collection of fashionable dress, feeding in to both the pre and post opening programmes.

Are you a database and systems person with proven experience of working with collections management systems in a museum context? And a passion to order information so that we can share fashion stories with a wide and diverse audience? If so, we would love to hear from you.

Closing date: Thursday 15 June

Blended working, between Bath, Warminster, and home

Why B&NES Council?

We offer a wide range of benefits, to ensure that you are paid fairly for your work, have the flexibility to enjoy a great work/life balance, and have the support you need. These include:

• A competitive salary package
• A range of flexible working and hybrid working options, including flexi-time, four regional offices and home-working, dependent on service requirements
• A generous holiday allowance and special leave provisions
• The Local Government Pension Scheme
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme – whatever life throws at you; we are committed to supporting you and your well-being at work and home
• Professional and personal development including in-house training and accredited qualifications including Aspiring Manager and Leadership Development
• Discount scheme including the VECTIS card that offers numerous local discounts including cycle to work and free entry to numerous local attractions with B&NES

Interested to find out more?

If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact Rosemary Harden on 01225477817 or on Rosemary_Harden@BATHNES.GOV.UK

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Please use the online application facility.

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We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.

Interview Date: Interview in Warminster /on Teams: Thursday 6 July

Please note the Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at-risk register. This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role, they will be interviewed before any shortlisting or interviewing of external candidates.