Registrar

Registrar, Museum, Temporary, 4 to 8 weeks, London, £18.00-£20.00 per hour plus holiday pay

We are seeking a collaborative and highly organised temporary Registrar to join a busy team in this high profile and much loved Museum. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a strong background in dealing with the admin processes relating to loans and ensuring the extent of exposure through indemnities is known, within the Museum sector.

Responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Head of Collections Registration by reporting the status of loans, ensuring the extent of exposure through indemnities is known and all liabilities and risk to the Museum in connection to loans are managed effectively
• Ensuring that timely loan renewal and enhancing the Museum’s National and International profile
• Working with colleagues across the Museum and peer organisations to develop, schedule, and deliver loans in and out (working with exhibition and productions managers and technicians, curators, conservation, preservation, transport agents, movement & storage, and visual resources staff
• Recommending appropriate models (for example the use of Government Indemnity Scheme/ commercial insurance) and advocate for the needs of the loan items
• Ensuring that the conditions for loans are accurately captured and understood through written facilities data
• Analysing the returns by peer organisations, resolving emergent issues in partnership with your co-workers
• Managing accurate loan administration within the collections management system, Axiell Collections (eg contracts/agreements, condition reports and images, insurance/indemnity, and management data)

Skills and experience needed:

• Experience of working in the museum sector
• Progressing loans in National Museums adhering to sector specific standards
• Degree, equivalent professional or postgraduate museum studies qualification or extensive experience working as a Registrar within the museum and galleries sector
• The ability to apply Spectrum and collections management governance processes, particularly to loans in and out, entry, acquisition, disposal, and exit
• Experience of using data sources and databases to provide management reporting on the status of projects
• The ability to identify issues that require referral
• Experience to provide advice on cultural property risk to senior staff and colleagues across the Museum
• Experience of working accountably to manage and complete loan contracts, agreements
• Experience of collections management and exhibitions processes
• Familiarity with movement of collections, condition, indemnity and insurance schemes and considerations at key stages of exhibition design and fit out
• Word, Excel, databases, e-mail and the internet
• Excellent organisational and planning skills, attention to detail, a methodical and clear writing and communication style
• Experience of using UK & International procedures and best practice to develop policies, procedures and systems in partnership with specialists

Due to the large number of applications that we receive, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

Val Wade Recruitment are actively looking for applicants from underrepresented communities, and pride ourselves as an equal opportunities’ employer and agency.