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

You will be responsible for specimen digitisation to support the Museum\xe2\x80\x99s work within the Digital, Data and Informatics Theme. As a digitiser you will work directly with the rest of the Digitisation Team, museum collections, curatorial teams, Data Management Team to capture digital images of specimens and their associated data.

As a member of the Digitisation Team you will represent the museum in tours and official events. You will also get the opportunity to present your work, create digitisation content for social media and articles including blogs, datasets, and printed articles.

Role competencies:

Demonstrable experience in the field of natural sciences, or a strongly related discipline.

Demonstrable experience of collections digitisation, recuration or conservation projects (or relevant transferable experience).

Good working knowledge of collections metadata and collection management systems (or relevant transferable experience).

Good working knowledge of working in the cloud with either Office 365 or Google Docs suite.

Experience and/or knowledge of checking and verifying data either in documents, spreadsheets, databases, scientific literature or other sources.

Ability to work as part of a team.

Demonstrable manual dexterity for handling small and fragile collections objects.

Demonstrable attention to detail and ability to follow complex instructions/workflows.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

Handling and digitising specimens to support the work of the wider Digitisation Team. This includes photography, transcription, georeferencing and databasing.

Trialling new collection digitisation workflow methods and tools.

Recording accurate information about digitisation workflows for project/programme evaluation and monitoring.

Sharing digitisation best practices with internal stakeholders and project partners via reports, posters and presentations (e.g. at project board, internal seminars and potentially conferences).

Supporting curators, researchers and other team members in publishing specimen datasets, and research papers

Contribute to the team\xe2\x80\x99s wider communication and social media content.

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\xe2\x80\x99s 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 and other national treasures. For more details, visit

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\xe2\x80\x99s careers portal,

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Closing date: 9am, 25th September 2023

Interviews expected w/c 9th October 2023

Salary: \xc2\xa328,346 per annum

Please note that this role qualifies for Museum sponsorship. Whilst we would still expect the successful postholder to have valid right to work in the UK at the point of starting the role, the Museum can support in obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role to apply for future or continued right to work in the UK. Please contact our Recruitment Team at if you have any further queries regarding this.

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