[NHCOLL-L:3960] 2 positions - National Museum of Ireland, Natural History

Julia Sigwart julia.sigwart at ucd.ie
Wed Sep 3 11:32:20 EDT 2008


Dear all,

Please circulate widely to potential applicants and note the very 
early application deadline.
See below for two jobs currently advertised in the National Museum of 
Ireland, Natural History Divison. Both are fixed-term 5-year 
contracts. The positions are for
1, Education Assistant/Tour Guide - Natural History
2, Technical Assistant - Natural History

Deadline: 5pm on Friday 12 September 2008

The National Museum of Ireland's (NMI) Museum of Natural History is a 
Victorian cabinet-style museum with extensive exhibitions of 10,000 
animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate, from all over the world, 
built up through more than two centuries of collecting. The total 
collections cover zoology, entomology and geology and number 
approximately 2 million specimens.
The exhibition building is closed for renovations that will take 
several years. A new temporary gallery will be developed in early 
2009 at the NMI Collins Barracks site.

For more information and application instructions for both positions see
http://www.museum.ie/en/list/current-opportunities.aspx

To apply, please forward a letter of application, together with an 
up-to-date Curriculum Vitae (including a contact phone number and 
contact details for a minimum of three referees) to Ms Mary Dowling, 
citing the position of interest: <recruitment at museum.ie>



1, Education Assistant/Tour Guide - Natural History

The Education Assistant will be based in the National Museum Ireland, 
Museum of Natural History, Merrion Street, Dublin 2. and will work as 
a member of the Education and Outreach Department at the National 
Museum of Ireland- Archaeology, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. 

The Education Assistant will:
- Research, prepare and give guided tours of the exhibitions
- Carry out general administrative work in relation to education 
programming and activities within a busy Education and Outreach 
Department i.e. undertaking filing, correspondence, compiling reports 
etc.
- Undertake outreach visits using Museum handling material
- Undertake other programmes as directed by the Education Officer who 
will be their Line Manager.


2, Technical Assistant - Natural History Division

The Technical Assistant will be based in the Natural History Division 
at the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History, Merrion Street, 
Dublin 2 and also work in the collections research facility at 
Beggars Bush, Dublin 4. The line manager is the Keeper - Natural 
History Division.

The principal duties of the Technical Assistant in the Natural 
History Division include but are not limited to the following:
- Preparation of specimens for inclusion in the collections of the Division
- Marking, labelling and boxing specimens
- Maintenance of the alcohol-preserved collections
- Preventive conservation of specimens to standards set by the Head 
of Conservation
- Compilation of lists and inventories of specimens in the collections
- Environmental monitoring of areas where specimens are exhibited or stored
- Control and monitoring of potential pests in areas where specimens 
are exhibited or stored
- Collection of specimens through fieldwork
- Facilitating visitors to the collections
- Arranging laboratory and technical supplies


--
Julia Sigwart, PhD
Collections-based Biology in Dublin (CoBiD)
National Museum of Ireland &
University College Dublin
http://www.ucd.ie/cobid
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