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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I am delighted to share the advert for a new position at the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, UK:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Senior Collections Lead<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Full-time, fixed term for four years (in the first instance). Salary: £35,116-£45,413<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Senior Collections Lead's primary responsibility is to manage the team responsible for Collections Management, Care, and Conservation; whilst also playing a significant
role in the delivery of this work, particularly in areas of collections management.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">You will be an ambitious and creative individual with proven successful experience of leading and motivating teams with a diverse and active workload. You will have a deep
knowledge of contemporary natural history museums practice, particularly in collections management, and a practical understanding of the processes of conservation. You enjoy people-management, work-planning and negotiation, and have the ability to develop
schedules to balance the needs of a wide range of stakeholders. You are excited by the creative possibilities of making collections accessible for research, teaching and public engagement. You will have the people skills to be a superb ambassador for the Museum
when engaging with external users of our collections and capable of working effectively with our academic Curators.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For more information and details on how to apply, please see:
<a href="https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51272/">https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51272/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please do share with your networks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">All the best<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Jack<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Assistant Director</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University Museum of Zoology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Downing Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Cambridge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">CB2 3EJ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="tel:+441223761344"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">+44 (0)1223 761344</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Bluesky:
</span><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jackdashby.bsky.social"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">@JackDAshby</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">President,
</span><a href="http://www.shnh.org.uk/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Society for the History of Natural History</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F3864;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/458203/natures-memory-by-ashby-jack/9780241656884"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Nature’s Memory:
Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#156082;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">by Jack Ashby was published in April 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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