Museum Volunteering Officer
| Posting date: | 27 May 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 June 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE16 7LT |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5313 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Harborough Museum, The Symington Building, Adam and Eve Street, Market Harborough, LE16 7LT (working across Melton Carnegie Museum and Charnwood Museum)
Worker Category: Fixed Location Worker
Salary: £27,717 - £30,066 (pro-rata for part time)
Working Hours: 18.5 hours per week (0.5 FTE); Monday, Wednesday required, half-day flexible
Contract Type: Fixed-term until 29 May 2026
Closing Date: Saturday 7th June 2025
Interview Date(s): Monday 16th June 2025
Are you interested in working with great people in our amazing museums across Leicestershire?
This is an excellent opportunity to build communities and develop exciting volunteer projects in unique and special places.
About the Role
As Volunteering Officer you will manage, supervise, support and develop volunteers across our Market Town Museums at Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough and Loughborough. Research Volunteers meet on Mondays at Harborough Museum and on Wednesdays Research and Garden Volunteers meet at Melton Carnegie Museum. We are looking to create new volunteering opportunities at Harborough Museum.
You will support our existing volunteers and recruit new volunteers, to deliver activities which enhance our visitor experience and public access to museum collections in its widest sense while ensuring the continued delivery of best practice in volunteer management. Support will include registering and processing volunteer expenses claims, celebrating volunteers’ achievements and developing their skills, knowledge and experience where applicable.
You will work with the service's Volunteer Development Team, Library colleagues and Charnwood Burrough Council staff to develop new opportunities for volunteering.
Some infrequent weekend or evening working may be required to support events that involve volunteers or celebrate projects which include volunteers’ contributions.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Have experience of guiding and supporting volunteers, preferably in museum galleries, displays and collections spaces
- Understanding of museum conservation, collections care and management processes and working with historic objects
- Knowledge of best practice for volunteer management with experience of successfully delivering volunteer projects
- Excellent communication skills, able to work across teams and service boundaries, with the ability to resolve conflict
- Supporting Health and Safety compliance and implementing Health and Safety audits and reviews
- Communicating with service users in a museum or other relevant public setting
- You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Tim Savage, Local Museums Officer
Telephone: 0116 305 2566
Email: timothy.savage@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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