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We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum’s unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.
Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.
We employ 900 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.

Embedded within Insects, the Senior Curator in Charge of Lepidoptera will lead and manage a curatorial team ensuring best practice in collections care and providing access to a world-class collection of natural history specimens in their taxonomic area. Specimens are to be acquired, well-managed and made available to facilitate research, teaching, training, reference and exhibitions. An established or emerging expert in their field of collections-based science, the Senior Curator in Charge demonstrates a high level of scholarship science (e.g., taxonomy, systematics, organismal biology). The Senior Curator in Charge works with other Senior Curators in Charge and line manages other Curators within the curatorial team. This post is in turn line managed by the Principal Curator in Charge. The Senior Curators in Charge are expected to support the Principal Curator in Charge.