Lab-based Collections Curator

at  Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

JOB SUMMARY

There is a vacancy in the Collections Department for a Lab-based Collections Curator. You will be a member of the Laboratory-based Collections team, reporting to the Laboratory-based Collections Manager; and will be responsible for helping to maintain the highest standards in the management of Kew’s internationally important collections. Specifically, the post will contribute to maintaining and improving Kew’s world class plant DNA and Tissue Bank.

JOB DESCRIPTION

You will be responsible for curating the plant DNA and Tissue collections to international standards, including contributing to identifying priority areas for curation and curation and collection development. This includes data management, further developing best practice of plant DNA and tissue curation, limited extraction of plant DNA from tissue, and some small-scale project management; with the possibility of collaborative projects with colleagues in other Kew Science Departments, assisting with the preparation of reports and journal articles, as required.
You will also carry out some teaching or training activities, together with public engagement activities in the Gardens, to promote Kew’s science.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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