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Full Time

Marketing Assistant

You will support Dundee Science Centre raise its profile, engage audiences and deliver our mission of making science accessible for all.

Working with senior colleagues and teams across the organisation, you will create and schedule engaging, brand-focused content for social media and digital channels. You will support marketing campaigns for visitor experiences, events, programmes and partnerships, helping to prepare promotional materials and identify new ways of connecting with audiences.

You will monitor customer feedback across multiple platforms, support timely responses and identify themes to share with colleagues. You will also assist with market research, gather campaign results and contribute to reports that help us understand our audiences and improve future activity.

This role offers practical experience across content creation, social media, digital marketing, events and public relations. You will receive guidance and development while contributing creative ideas, supporting colleagues and building your professional marketing skills.

This is an excellent opportunity for a recent graduate or someone beginning their marketing career who is creative, organised and keen to learn. The successful candidate will be enthusiastic about Dundee Science Centre’s work and motivated to help more people and communities explore and connect with science.

Main Responsibilities
• Content Creation and Social Media
• Marketing Campaigns and Communications
• Website and Digital Marketing
• Audience Engagement and Customer Care
• Research, Evaluation and Reporting
• Administration and Organisational Support

Person Specification

Essential:
• HND-level qualification in Marketing, Social Media Marketing or a related subject, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience of scheduling social media content and reviewing channel performance.
• Experience of graphic design, content writing, campaign delivery or presenting creative ideas. This may have been gained through education, employment, volunteering, placements or personal projects.
• Good knowledge of social media platforms and digital content creation and editing.
• Experience of creating and editing graphic or video content using tools such as Canva or Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Understanding of website content-management systems, Google Analytics, Google Search Console or digital advertising platforms.
• Experience using digital tools and platforms, or a willingness to undertake continuing professional development to strengthen digital skills.
• Experience of gathering and using audience feedback, evaluation or research to support decision-making.
• Ability to coordinate several tasks or projects simultaneously and manage workloads, priorities and deadlines effectively.
• Ability to identify challenges, use initiative and suggest practical solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and communicate effectively with a range of audiences.
• Proven ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Commitment to inclusion and access for diverse audiences.

Desirable:
• Experience of working in a community, education, charity or visitor-attraction setting with diverse audiences.
• Experience of working in an office environment and completing administrative tasks.
• Experience of maintaining digital filing systems, contact databases or customer relationship-management systems.
• Experience of using booking, ticketing or finance systems.
• Knowledge of data-protection and GDPR requirements in a marketing context.
• A friendly, confident and positive attitude with strong interpersonal skills.
• A flexible and proactive approach to working hours, including weekends and evenings.
• Willingness to appear in appropriate Dundee Science Centre engagement and marketing content, subject to prior agreement.
• Full, clean UK driving licence.

What Success Looks Like…
• Engaging, accessible and brand-consistent content is delivered regularly across Dundee Science Centre’s digital channels.
• Marketing campaigns effectively support visitor experiences, events, programmes, partnerships, bookings and participation.
• Dundee Science Centre increases its digital reach and strengthens engagement with new and existing audiences.
• Customer comments, messages, reviews and feedback are monitored and addressed promptly and professionally.
• Website, social media and campaign data are gathered accurately and used to improve future marketing activity.
• The marketing content calendar remains current, coordinated and responsive to organisational priorities and audience needs.
• Colleagues receive reliable, creative and well-organised marketing support.
• The Marketing Assistant continues to develop their professional skills while contributing positively to Dundee Science Centre’s mission, values and team culture.

Gardens & Estate Worker

JOB PURPOSE
Under the direction of the Head Gardener and as part of the property team, assist with the conservation and development of the gardens to ensure that Culzean Castle Gardens are presented at the highest standards to its visitors and guests. The post exists to in order to ensure that the garden and policies across the Property are managed and maintained as an internationally recognised garden of outstanding horticultural importance.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
The Key Purposes of the job will be met by:
1. Undertaking practical maintenance of the garden and wider estate (e.g. managing trees and shrubs, herbaceous plants, and turf care; pest/disease/weed control; composting and soil improvement; hard-landscaping; path care; waste management) to the required standards expected by the Trust and for the maximum safety of, and enjoyment by visitors;
2. Fostering positive relationships promote the work of the Trust.
3. On occasion, working with volunteers and/or staff members to ensure they deliver required outputs at the appropriate standard, and gain benefit/satisfaction from their activities.
4. Demonstrating self motivation, organizing, planning, and the ability to prioritise along with good time management;
5. Undertaking such other reasonable duties as may from time to time be required to ensure the smooth running of the property as required by the Head Gardener.
6. Ensuring compliance with the Trust’s health, safety, and environment policies and procedures.

Operations Supervisor

Glasgow Science Centre (GSC) is an educational charity and leading science centre and visitor attraction with a 5-star status. Our mission is to inspire everyone to explore and understand the world around them and to discover and enjoy science.
We are a place of learning, creativity, curiosity, and fun, inspiring and empowering around half a million people every year, both inside and outside our amazing centre in Pacific Quay, on the banks of the Clyde.
Our state-of-the-art centre contains more than 450 interactive exhibits, a digital planetarium, a science show theatre, a teaching laboratory, an IMAX cinema, and a maker space. We also take science out of our centre and across Scotland with our On Tour programme and our Community Engagement Programme works closely with people in our local communities.
Our staff are vitally important to us and play a key role in achieving our mission. We value diversity in our workforce and want our workforce to reflect the diverse communities we serve bringing a range of skills, experiences, knowledge, and ideas to help towards our mission.
Our company values are important to us as they underpin who we are and how we work, what we believe in and stand for:
We strive for excellence
We are inclusive
We innovate
We collaborate
ABOUT THE ROLE
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Operations Team.
This varied role is instrumental in line management and supervision of staff across all customer-facing areas, including front-of-house, food and beverage outlets, gallery floors (including Newton Flight Academy, Planetarium and SST), Corporate Events, Gift Shop, Car Park Operations, IMAX and Tower. While experience in visitor attractions or cultural venues are valuable, we are also keen to hear from applicants with a background in hospitality, catering, events, or retail operations who can bring fresh perspectives and operational expertise to our team.
This role requires you to assist the Operations Mangers with the day-to-day management of all areas, and to act as appointed person (Duty Manager) for specific events where required.
As well as to implement the GSC Customer Service promise. Offer a fun, safe and welcoming environment to all customers and to provide an integrated, co-ordinated and professional level of service to our customers at point of contact.
If this sounds like you then we would love you to get in touch!

Benefits:
• Company events
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Free and on-site parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• Sick pay

Work Location: In person

Night Duty Manager

About Lost Shore Surf Resort
Lost Shore is about bringing a world-first and world-beating surf resort to the outskirts of the capital. The largest inland wave pool in Europe, has arrived next to Europe’s largest indoor climbing arena, and is putting Scotland on the map for all the right reasons!
But it’s the range of other activities and leisure offerings that make us so special, offering something for everyone.
Picture a surfing paradise where surfers, tourists, and locals converge—a place where adventure meets relaxation.

About the role

The Night Duty Manager plays a critical part in determining our Visitor’s out of hours onsite experience, including responding to queries, dealing with incidents and resolving issues in an appropriate, safe and timely manner.
The Day Duty Managers ensure smooth day to day running of the resort operation, during the hours of 7am until 11pm. The Night Duty Managers look after the resort and guests during the quieter hours, allowing many tasks which could not be completed during the day, to be kept up to date.

What you’ll do
– Responding to issues and queries about the Resort from both Visitors and 3rd parties, either in person or on the phone.
– Processing late check-ins and buggy runs as required.
– Maintaining well presented and clean public areas, ensuring spaces are tidy and well presented over night.
– Collaborate with our security contractor, ensuring that the Resort and those staying with us are safe and comfortable at all times.
– Manage opening and closing procedure for the Resort, including effective communication of handovers with Day Duty Manager Team.

Skills required
– Previous experience in a front-of-house, hsopitality or leisure facility is essential.
– Demonstrated ability to handle issues independently and escalate when necessary, ensuring smooth operations.
– Strong commitment to customer satisfaction, maintaining high standards and building lasting relationships with stakeholders.
– Exceptional organisational, report writing and time-management skills, ensuring attention to detail and effective task prioritisation.
– Ethically minded with a dedication to equality, diversity, and inclusion, coupled with a calm demeanour in challenging situations.
– Experience with Microsoft Office is essential and familiarity with POS or bookings systems would be advantageous, although full training will be provided.
– Available for overnight shifts, including periods of lone work.

E-Commerce & Digital Retail Manager

About Lost Shore Surf Resort

Lost Shore is one of the UK’s most exciting new destinations — a surf resort just outside Edinburgh built around Europe’s largest inland surfing lagoon.

Alongside surfing, accommodation, food, wellness and events, we’re building a distinctive brand around surfing, adventure and outdoor lifestyle.

Now we want to take our retail business online.

Why Lost Shore?

This is a chance to join Lost Shore at an exciting stage of its development and have a genuine influence on how the brand and retail business evolve.

We have a strong physical retail operation, a growing customer base and a huge amount of content, experiences and events to build around.

The ambition is to develop online retail into a £600k+ annual revenue channel, with plenty of scope to grow beyond that.

You’ll have the freedom to test ideas, launch products, work with exciting brands and creators, and help shape what Lost Shore looks like online.

If you’re excited by e-commerce, brands, surfing and building something from the ground up, we’d love to hear from you.

About the role

We’re looking for an ambitious, commercially minded E-Commerce & Digital Retail Manager to take ownership of our online retail operation and help build it into a significant part of the Lost Shore business.

This is a hands-on role with genuine responsibility. You’ll manage and develop our Shopify store, improve the customer journey, grow online sales and help shape the product range and digital retail strategy.

You’ll have the opportunity to build something rather than simply maintain an established e-commerce operation.

What you’ll do
– Managing and growing the Lost Shore Shopify store
– Developing and improving our online product range
– Managing product listings, collections, merchandising and promotions
– Planning and delivering online product launches and seasonal campaigns
– Working with our marketing team across Meta, Google, email, SEO and content
– Developing CRM and email activity to drive repeat purchases
– Using sales and customer data to improve conversion, average order value and margin
– Developing Lost Shore branded products, collaborations and limited-edition collections
– Creating opportunities around our events, athletes and wider Lost Shore community
– Working closely with our Retail manager to connect online and in-resort retail
– Helping ensure stock, fulfilment, delivery and customer service work smoothly as the online business grows

Qualifications
You don’t need to have spent 10 years running e-commerce teams. We’re looking for someone who is commercial, curious, energetic and keen to build.

You’ll ideally have some experience in:
– Shopify or another e-commerce platform
– Online retail or digital marketing
– Product merchandising
– Email/CRM
– Social media and digital campaigns
– Using data to understand and improve performance
– You might already be working in e-commerce, digital marketing, retail or a related role and be ready to take the next step.
– Experience or a genuine interest in surf, outdoor, fashion, sport or lifestyle brands would be a big plus.
– Most importantly, you’re someone who sees an opportunity and gets stuck in.

Commercial Manager

Are you an ambitious and commercially minded creative professional with a passion for art and culture?

We are seeking a dynamic Commercial Manager to shape a new retail strategy that will drive our future growth for Dovecot Studios. This is a fixed term post designed for you to bring fresh perspectives and have a positive impact on one of Scotland’s most distinctive cultural institutions.

This is a fixed term post (to 31 March 2027) with the potential for extension, designed for you to bring fresh perspectives and have a positive commercial impact on one of Scotland’s most distinctive cultural institutions.

This is an opportunity to shape our retail offer, influence the visitor experience and contribute directly to Dovecot’s commercial sustainability, while working alongside artists, designers, makers and colleagues across our exhibitions and creative programmes. You will manage the Visitor Services team to deliver ambitious sales targets across retail, exhibition and event tickets.

A key focus of the role will be helping to develop and implement a new retail strategy, ensuring that our shop is commercially successful while remaining true to Dovecot’s distinctive artistic identity. You will combine commercial awareness, excellent customer service and practical management skills to improve performance and create an engaging experience for every visitor.

Key Responsibilities:
Retail & Merchandising: Oversee retail buying, stock management and visual merchandising
Visitor Experience & Sales: Implement revenue-driving initiatives to hit our ambitious financial targets across all key commercial channels of retail and exhibition ticketing
Team Leadership: Provide inspiring line management for a target-focused visitor services team, ensuring a culture of exceptional customer care and sales conversion.
Operations: Maintain high standards of health and safety across the site

Chief Executive Officer

Dundee Heritage Trust (DHT) is a highly regarded heritage charity responsible for some of Dundee’s most significant and internationally recognised attractions, including RRS Discovery, Discovery Point and Verdant Works. Through its heritage, collections, learning and visitor experiences, the Trust connects people with Dundee’s rich industrial and maritime history and creates opportunities for learning, inspiration and engagement.

The Trust is now seeking a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to lead the organisation into an exciting new phase of transformation, growth and development. This is a pivotal leadership role, responsible for shaping and delivering the Trust’s strategic direction, strengthening financial sustainability, growing audiences and income, and maximising the impact of its world-class heritage assets.

Reporting directly to the Board of Trustees, the CEO will provide strong, visible and collaborative leadership across DHT, working closely with the Chair, Trustees, Executive Management Team and wider staff team. They will ensure the organisation remains financially sustainable, operationally effective and focused on delivering its charitable objectives, while creating a positive and high-performing culture where people are valued, empowered and accountable.

A major priority for the incoming CEO will be leading the Trust through a significant period of transformation, including the Discovery Point Transformed project, representing an investment of approximately £11 million. This ambitious project provides an opportunity to transform the visitor experience at Discovery Point, strengthen the Trust’s commercial and learning offer, attract new audiences and help secure the long-term future of RRS Discovery. The CEO will play a key role in ensuring this investment delivers lasting heritage, visitor, community and financial benefits for the organisation.

Financial sustainability and growth will also be central to the role. The CEO will work closely with the Finance, Commercial and Development teams to strengthen and diversify income streams across admissions, commercial activity, grants, donations and high-net-worth fundraising. They will provide strategic oversight of financial performance, cash, reserves and investment, while identifying new opportunities for sustainable growth and ensuring that commercial activity remains aligned with the Trust’s charitable purpose.

To succeed in this role, you will be an experienced senior leader with a strong track record of strategic and organisational leadership, financial management, income generation and people development. You will bring the ability to balance commercial opportunities with charitable purpose and will be comfortable operating at Board level and working across a diverse range of stakeholders.

You will be a strategic and creative thinker who can translate ambition into practical delivery, combined with strong communication, influencing and decision-making skills. Experience within the arts, culture, heritage, museum, visitor attraction, charity or wider not-for-profit sector will be highly relevant, alongside experience of leading change, major projects, fundraising and developing sustainable income.

This is an exceptional opportunity for an ambitious and values-led leader to shape the future of one of Scotland’s most distinctive heritage organisations. With significant heritage assets, a committed team and a major capital investment programme underway, the incoming CEO will have a unique opportunity to protect the past, transform the present and build a sustainable future for Dundee Heritage Trust.

How to Apply:

Please email us at recruitment@brucetaitassociates.com to request an information pack and job description. You are advised to get in touch well in advance of the closing date to give us time to consider your application and pre-interview the strongest applicants.

Closing Date: Midday, Tuesday 6th October

Interview Date: W/C 12th October

Infrastructure Engineer

At RBGE, we’re passionate about plants, people, and the planet. As part of our commitment to sustainability, innovation, and excellence, we’re investing in a secure, resilient, and future-ready digital environment. We’re looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to join our team and play a key role in supporting our ambitious digital transformation projects and strengthening our cyber resilience

This is more than just a technical role. It’s an opportunity to collaborate across departments, influence strategic decisions, and contribute to a mission-driven organisation that values diversity, inclusion, and continuous learning. Based at our Edinburgh Garden, you’ll work alongside senior leaders, external partners, and a supportive internal team to design and maintain secure infrastructure that supports everything from day-to-day operations to cutting-edge scientific research.

You’ll bring expertise in infrastructure design, cyber security, and systems administration and your calm, solutions-focused approach will enable you to resolve issues effectively and build strong relationships across the organisation.

Please visit the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh website to submit your application.

Fundraiser

Grants and Partnerships Officer
Full-time and Permanent
Salary £37,614 – £41,138 per annum
Plus generous benefits package
Hybrid / flexible working

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a confident and collaborative fundraiser who knows how to build strong relationships and turn good ideas into compelling funding and partnership opportunities.

As our Grants and Partnerships Officer, you’ll help secure philanthropic income from trusts and foundations, corporate partners and sponsors. You’ll manage a defined portfolio of opportunities, developing high-quality funding applications and sponsorship proposals that support our strategic priorities.

We are looking for someone who brings experience of securing 5- and 6-figure funding, building relationships with funders or corporate partners, and working across a large and complex organisation. With this experience and excellent writing skills, you will be able to turn complex ideas, projects and financial information into clear and persuasive proposals.

You’ll be organised, collaborative and comfortable managing multiple opportunities, deadlines and funding cycles. Confident in managing structured processes and governance requirements, you’ll work across departments to develop fundable projects and partnership propositions, ensuring submissions are well planned, insight-led and aligned with funder or partner objectives.

Most importantly, you’ll enjoy building relationships, spotting opportunities and collaborating with colleagues to make great things happen, directly contributing to the sustainability and ambitions of the National Galleries of Scotland as part of a busy Development team.

Who we are looking for
To succeed in this role, you’ll need the following range of knowledge, skills, and experience:
-Experience of securing 5- and 6- figure funding from grant-giving organisations and/or corporate partners, funders or sponsors, ideally within a large or complex organisation.
-Proven experience of developing high-quality grant applications and/or corporate sponsorship proposals that require coordinated input from multiple internal stakeholders.
-You’ll understand relationship-based fundraising and be confident working with external funders, corporate partners and senior internal colleagues.
-Good knowledge of project design and co-creation principles, including setting outcomes and articulating impact and theory of change within funding proposals.
-Understanding of sponsorship principles, including how corporate partners assess value, brand alignment and audience reach, and how sponsorship outcomes and benefits can be defined and measured.
-Awareness of the importance of due diligence, ethical assessment and reputational risk considerations in relation to funding or sponsorship opportunities.
-Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to work on multiple funding, partnership or sponsorship opportunities concurrently.
-Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to translate complex organisational activity into clear, persuasive funding and partnership proposals and reports.
-Confidence working within established processes and systems to manage pipelines, reporting and performance.
-Proven ability to collaborate effectively across teams and departments in a matrixed or institution-wide setting.
-High attention to detail, professionalism and discretion when handling sensitive information and relationships.
-Solid understanding of budgets, with the ability to analyse financial information and incorporate it into proposals and funding strategies.

It would also be great if you have:
-Experience fundraising in the arts, culture, heritage or education sectors.
-Familiarity with capital, programme or multi-year project funding.
-Experience using Spektrix or a comparable CRM system.
-Enthusiasm for the mission and work of the National Galleries of Scotland.

Please apply directly via our careers portal. Applications via email will not be accepted.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Thursday, 01 October 2026.

Communication and Membership Officer

Almond Valley Heritage Trust is looking for a creative, thoughtful and engaging Communications & Membership Officer to help share our story, purpose and campaigns.

This varied role will support and deliver communications across social media, digital content, our website, e-newsletters, membership, community engagement and marketing. You will work across the organisation to identify stories and opportunities, create engaging content and help grow and engage our audiences.

We’re looking for someone with at least two years’ communications experience, strong writing and digital skills, and experience using platforms such as Canva, WordPress, Meta and Mailchimp.

How to apply:

Please send your CV, a cover letter of no more than 500 words, and examples of your work to date; such as press releases, social media posts or website content to jobs@almondvalley.co.uk.

Regional Membership Manager – Edinburgh & East

JOB PURPOSE
This role has two purposes:
1. To support the fulfilment of the Membership Strategy, drive and lead a membership engagement and recruitment re-focus across the region as a whole, providing support at an individual property level.
2. In support of the Membership Strategy, feed a from-the-ground perspective into current and future campaigns, initiatives and offers to optimise their success.

CONTEXT
Audiences & Support (A&S) oversees a contribution of more than 50% of the Trust’s income through membership and fundraising. It plays a vital role in managing reputation and building profile which underpins every single aspect of our activity. We have ambition for it to generate more.

Membership represents a third of our income and it is a strategic and budget priority. With around 346,000 members we are the largest membership organisation in Scotland. It is a stable base of engaged advocates who understand our purpose and mission.

In 2024, we committed to undertake a comprehensive review of membership, the first of its type for at least 12 years. The key recommendations from that review were developed into the Membership Strategy, which was approved by our Board in April 2026.

Our Strategy is to grow and sustain an engaged and loyal supporter base of members who feel connected to the Trust and a deepen their relationship to us by visiting, donating and speaking up for heritage. This will be achieved through three core pillars, aligned with the Trust’s ten-year strategy, growing our membership base to 415,000, contributing over £32m per annum to our organisation by 2031.

Below the pillars sits an implementation plan which lays out the activity required to unlock growth potential. These strategic activities require resource to plan, coordinate, implement and evaluate to ensure that the aims of the strategy can be met.

This role is to support our membership growth out at our properties in our Edinburgh & East region. This role is to pilot adding additional support and focus to drive membership recruitment and engagement, with particular focus to investigate and implement strategic changes that enable our growth plan. Its success may lead to similar roles being adopted in other regions across the Trust.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

At a property/regional level:
1. In fulfilment of the Membership Strategy, drive and lead a membership re-focus across the region as a whole. Supporting individual properties with specific action plans.
2. Understand the challenges and opportunities for membership engagement and recruitment for the region and at each property, and use this knowledge to give context to driving the pragmatic operationalisation of Membership Strategy campaigns and initiatives through bespoke property membership recruitment plans – including:
• implementation activities supporting campaigns and initiatives
• development and delivery of staff training (employee and volunteer)
• agreeing milestones for achieving agreed targets
3. Actively seek opportunities to challenge current property thinking and delivery of membership engagement and recruitment, and help the property “do things differently” if this will have a positive impact.
4. Support the Membership Marketing Manager with the roll-out of campaigns – including developing collateral to support properties achieve membership recruitment targets, local media messaging etc.
5. At a regional-level, contribute a membership perspective to cross-regional/cross-functional projects – for example in collections & conservation-in-action, events & formal learning, functions, food & beverage, gardens, holidays, nature conservation, retail, new systems and processes
6. Across the region, drive income generation in year and drive conversation of visitors to members from 2.5% towards 9%, through developing tools and practice to support and sustain income growth beyond the fixed-term period.

At a central Membership function level
7. Using insight and performance data, review target achievement, test new approaches, monitor results, evaluate effectiveness, and identify opportunities for continuous improvements – and, as appropriate, feed these back into central the Membership team to influence future approaches, campaigns, and initiatives for roll-out to other regions/properties.
8. Contribute to projects that improve the member journey at our places, including: online and in-person sign-up processes, data collection, membership administration, digital cards, and EPOS till related service improvements.
9. Build a network of peer membership organisations as a forum for exchanging initiatives, information, best practice etc.

The current duties of this job do not require a criminal records (Disclosure Scotland) check to be carried out.

Curator – North East

JOB PURPOSE

The National Trust for Scotland’s curators are storytellers. The team co-ordinates research, helps to disseminate stories and supports property and central teams with the knowledge, tools and training that they need to share the histories of our places with our visitors and supporters in engaging ways.

The Curator North East provides curatorial support for the National Trust for Scotland’s North East region, excluding Fyvie Castle which is the responsibility of the Project Curator – Reimagining Fyvie Castle. They ensure that the cultural heritage of the properties in the region is well researched, understood and interpreted for the public. They have particular curatorial responsibility for the object collections and interiors at the region’s properties, but will also work with landscapes, gardens and intangible cultural heritage (ICH), facilitating cross-disciplinary research and ensuing integrated interpretation across all aspects of properties.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Undertake curatorial duties for a defined region or sub-regional cluster of properties, supporting regional and property teams to ensure collections, interiors, gardens and landscape elements are well researched, understood, and interpreted for the public. This will include:
o Training and development of colleagues
o Researching collections, interiors, people and places
o Interpreting our properties and their stories in creative and relevant ways, informed by audience feedback and evaluation
o Ensuring collections information is accurate and recorded in a manner consistent with policy and best practice.

• Support the development of and ensure work is consistent with policy and guidance on curatorial work, especially research, interpretation, and management of collections, with particular reference to the Curatorial Vison and Strategy.

• Support the development of Masterplan Projects at properties within the region, ensuring strategic direction is informed by strong understanding of cultural heritage and assets.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE

Qualifications and Experience

Essential
• Undergraduate degree in a relevant subject (e.g. art/architectural history, Scottish history, social history) or suitable equivalent experience.
• Experience of working with historic collections and period interiors and/or cultural landscapes
• Demonstrable experience of a wide range of curatorial and collections management responsibilities in a museum/gallery or heritage environment.
• Experience of building effective working relationships in complex, changing work environment and matrix-management structures.
• Competent object recognition and analytical skills, with proven ability and willingness to curate a wide range of object types.
• Sound understanding of SPECTRUM documentation standards and the requirements for Museum Accreditation.
• Experience of research from primary sources, producing and sharing research outputs.
• Experience of object cataloguing and use of collections management databases.
• Demonstrable experience of planning audience-focused exhibitions and displays.
• Demonstrable experience of creating and enabling audience-focused interpretive and visitor experience solutions.

Desirable
• A post graduate qualification in relevant subject (e.g. history, heritage interpretation, museum studies)
• Specialist knowledge expertise and a track record of publications in a relevant subject
• Experience of effective leadership in a dynamic environment
• Experience of developing and managing collaborative research projects
• A strong understanding of how to use evaluation and visitor research to inform exhibitions and interpretive developments.

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