Community Collections Inventory Officer
| Posting date: | 14 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,462 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 December 2025 |
| Location: | Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Peterborough Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
General purpose
To maximise collections, accessibility and accountability by completing collections wide inventories with community volunteers to spectrum 5.1 standards.
To use the process of collection inventories to promote the role of the museum in safeguarding collections via online engagement.
Key Deliverables
To programme and document collection inventories across all collection departments to Spectrum 5.1 standards.
To research and collate existing collections inventory documentation and ensure all inventories updated.
Prepare collections inventory data ready for uploading onto CMS system.
Assist Collections Information Officer with data cleaning of CMS system, meeting national terminology conventions.
To manage, develop, oversee and support a team of volunteers to work on collections inventories, encouraging community engagement with the collections.
To share collections stories through social media, collections online system and public engagement.
To promote museum collections work to museum audiences internally and externally.
Advise Heritage Collections and Museum Exhibition Manager of collections condition and conservation issues as part of inventory process.
To undertake tasks requiring object handling and to repackaging objects in appropriate museum conservation materials.
To operate within the museum’s collections management procedures and policies.
Contribute to the development of policies, procedures and strategies relating to the Museum collections and ensure effective and efficient implementation.
Support exhibitions and learning and event programmes giving public access to collections and related information as required.
Assist Collections team with enquiries and research visits as required.
To carry out all responsibilities with regard to the Peterborough Limited’s Customer Care and Equal Opportunities Policies and Procedures.
To comply with all Health and Safety at Work requirements as laid down by the employer and to be responsible for ensuring that all services, casual staff and volunteers comply in full with all of the procedures specified in the Normal Operating Procedures that address safety.
Other duties and responsibilities express and implied which arise from the nature and character of the post within the department (or section) mentioned above or in a comparable post in any of the Organisation’s other sections or departments.
To maximise collections, accessibility and accountability by completing collections wide inventories with community volunteers to spectrum 5.1 standards.
To use the process of collection inventories to promote the role of the museum in safeguarding collections via online engagement.
Key Deliverables
To programme and document collection inventories across all collection departments to Spectrum 5.1 standards.
To research and collate existing collections inventory documentation and ensure all inventories updated.
Prepare collections inventory data ready for uploading onto CMS system.
Assist Collections Information Officer with data cleaning of CMS system, meeting national terminology conventions.
To manage, develop, oversee and support a team of volunteers to work on collections inventories, encouraging community engagement with the collections.
To share collections stories through social media, collections online system and public engagement.
To promote museum collections work to museum audiences internally and externally.
Advise Heritage Collections and Museum Exhibition Manager of collections condition and conservation issues as part of inventory process.
To undertake tasks requiring object handling and to repackaging objects in appropriate museum conservation materials.
To operate within the museum’s collections management procedures and policies.
Contribute to the development of policies, procedures and strategies relating to the Museum collections and ensure effective and efficient implementation.
Support exhibitions and learning and event programmes giving public access to collections and related information as required.
Assist Collections team with enquiries and research visits as required.
To carry out all responsibilities with regard to the Peterborough Limited’s Customer Care and Equal Opportunities Policies and Procedures.
To comply with all Health and Safety at Work requirements as laid down by the employer and to be responsible for ensuring that all services, casual staff and volunteers comply in full with all of the procedures specified in the Normal Operating Procedures that address safety.
Other duties and responsibilities express and implied which arise from the nature and character of the post within the department (or section) mentioned above or in a comparable post in any of the Organisation’s other sections or departments.