Conservation Officer
| Posting date: | 30 October 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 November 2025 |
| Location: | leicestershire, LE18 2AH |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6404 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Long Street, Wigston, Leicestershire LE18 2AH
Worker Category: Fixed Location Worker
Salary: £35,451 – £39,165
Working Hours: 37 Hours per week, Monday – Friday with occasional evening and weekend work by prior arrangement.
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Sunday 16th November 2025
Interview Date(s): Week commencing 15th December
About the Role
Are you looking to use your existing archive conservation skills in a busy local authority record office?
Culture Leicestershire is Leicestershire County Council’s heritage, libraries, participation and learning service, our vision is to ‘Create space to spark imagination, celebrate communities and enhance wellbeing’ through access to our rich collections, staff expertise, buildings and engagement programmes.
We are looking for a new Conservation Officer, based at the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland and working within the Collections and Conservation team. You should be a qualified archive conservator with the skills, knowledge and experience to lead on the preventive and remedial conservation treatments of the Record Office’s important collections. You will support the preservation of the Record Office and wider heritage collections including having knowledge of the monitoring and control of environmental conditions, emergency planning and salvage, packaging and handling and the standards expected of Accredited collections.
Although the role has no direct staff management responsibilities you will be able to support and supervise the work of volunteers and other members of the team when they are engaged in basic conservation activities. We expect you to play a vital role in the operation of the Record Office and the wider Culture Leicestershire services in order for us to deliver our vision of a vital, engaging and responsive heritage offer to the public.
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About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Hold a recognised qualification in Archive/Paper Conservation which reflects the nature of the collections held in public record offices and demonstrate a high level of skill in archive conservation practices
- Have knowledge and experience of assessing, recommending, carrying out and documenting/recording a wide range of archive conservation treatments
- Have knowledge and experience of managing and operating environmental monitoring and control systems
- Have knowledge of preservation and conservation theory and practice, including issues and techniques, document and object handling and reprographics and digitisation techniques
- Have knowledge and understanding of emergency planning and salvage response for collections
- Knowledge of Local Authority Archive, Local Studies and Museum collections, and national accreditation standards for their preservation, care and conservation
- Have a high level of interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.
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:
Philip Warren, Collections & Learning Manager
Telephone: 0116 3053423
Email: philip.warren@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 'Apply Now'. 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.
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