Full Time

Based at Camera Obscura & World of Illusions, Edinburgh, the Assistant Technical Manager role is an exciting new role providing support both to the Technical Manager and the rest of the team.

Key Responsibilities include:
– Exhibit operation maintenance and upkeep
– Daily reactive maintenance of all areas of the attraction, premises and PPE
– Planned preventative maintenance of all areas of the attraction
– Liaising with colleagues, suppliers and contractors
– Team leading and project management
– Improving current exhibits and developing new ones
– Setting an example of great customer care and visitor interaction
– Occasional large-scale renovation projects
– Improvement of our systems
– Deputising for the Technical Manager as required

Essential skills:
– Team leading and/or management experience
– Excellent written and verbal communication skills
– IT/computing proficiency above basic levels: Microsoft suite, project management software
– Administration and Organisational skills
– Broad basic skills in: electrical, joinery, painting and decorating, plumbing

Desirable Skills:
– Experience in exhibition design, creation and/or manufacturing
– Knowledge of technical drawing software and basic programming skills

Person Specification:
– Enthusiastic and confident with the ability to motivate a team, communicate with other departments and develop working relationships with colleagues and contractors
– A keen eye for detail
– Pro-active and able to use own initiative
– A creative problem-solver able to develop solutions to deadlines, with a thorough understanding of business requirements
– Passionate about the visitor experience
– An interest in and understanding of exhibition design
– Professional in approach and able to confidently articulate ideas
– Reasonably fit, and physically able to carry out the duties as specified

JOB PURPOSE
To combine responsibilities on nature conservation, visitor services, learning and community engagement to help deliver the strategic objectives of the property and wider National Trust for Scotland.
Protect the landscapes in our care and associated marine habitats as part of ecologically healthy habitat networks where natural processes predominate and help combat climate change. Enable more people to experience more heritage more often, get more out of it & put more back into it. Use evidence and practice from our natural heritage properties to support our voice in national debates advocating for natural heritage. Work with communities living on or close to our land or with an interest in our land so that they collaborate with us to help achieve our natural heritage outcomes. Protect the built and archaeological heritage in our care and use them to help us explain the “habitats” outcome and achieve the “visitor’s” outcome.
This post has a pivotal role in the delivery of our ambitious long-term project to restore the landscape at Kelton Mains Farm on the Threave Estate. The ‘Threave Landscape Restoration Project’ will return the land of Kelton Mains Farm (81 ha) to a fully restored woodland-wetland ecosystem, self-sustaining and self-adapting to Scotland’s changing climate over the next one hundred years.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
Combine responsibilities across the following areas of work with direct implementation yourself and by overseeing the work of others such as contractors, volunteers, and colleagues:
Nature conservation
• Survey wildlife and habitats and feed this knowledge into management decisions, marketing of natural heritage, and further development of our voice.
• Maintain and manage habitats, wildlife with the aim of protecting species and increasing biodiversity.
• Contribute to the planning and lead the delivery of practical conservation to deliver the outputs agreed in the Annual Operating Plan
Visitor Services
• Provide information to visitors to encourage more visitors and help people get more out of their engagement with natural heritage and give more back to it including “upselling” (e.g.: of membership) using face to face and by other means of interaction such as social media.
• Maintain countryside estate infrastructure at small, day to day scale (e.g. paths, gates, signs, vegetation management) to achieve ecological, visitor services and safety outcomes.
• Occasional Visitor Services duties as cover, when required.
• Assist with events such as public gatherings, NTS events and weddings.
Community engagement
• Communicate with local stakeholders, neighbouring landowners, local businesses, local / regional agencies and others to increase understanding of their and our aims and develop collaborative working to help deliver our priorities.
Learning
• Provide educational and other outreach activities on site or to the community local to the natural heritage and to communities of interest, including for volunteers.
• Delivery of formal and informal learning activities including events, workshops, walks and talks.
Other responsibilities
• Management of practical conservation and wildlife recording.
• Ensure that all activities undertaken are compliant with the Trust’s health and safety policies and procedures including the safe system of work (SSOW), and environmental policy and practices.
• Manage contractors and supervise volunteers

JOB PURPOSE

Crarae is one of the finest examples of an exotic Himalayan style woodland garden. Set beside the banks of Loch Fyne, this unique 40-hectare garden is planted around the glen of the steep sided Crarae burn. The garden was started by Grace, Lady Campbell in 1912 and includes a National Collection of southern beech as well as excellent examples of rhododendron, maples, mountain ash and eucalyptus.

Under the direction of the Head Gardener, with supervision from the First Gardener, and as part of the property team, you will assist with the conservation, maintenance, and development of the garden and designed landscape to ensure that Crarae Garden is presented to the highest standards to its visitors and guests.

As such, we are looking for a knowledgeable and passionate Person to work with our enthusiastic team of staff and volunteers and to assist with the continued development of a wide range of horticultural aspects of the garden as well as increasing the overall importance of Crarae Garden as a visitor attraction.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Assist with the conservation and practical maintenance of the garden and policies in terms of:
o Practical horticulture Grass cutting on ride on gang mower. Regular use of pedestrian rotary mowers, regular use of edging shears, strimmers/brushcutters, blowers and other basic machinery. Other gardening /landscaping work when required.
o Participating in horticultural machinery operations including grass cutting, tractor driving, blowing, strimming, hedge cutting, and other general horticultural or landscaping machinery operations.
o Ensure that machinery/tools are used in accordance with the Safe Systems of Work procedures at the property and where appropriate, effect minor repairs or maintenance as instructed.

JOB PURPOSE

This exciting new role will play a key part in the PLANTS Project – Plant Listing at National Trust for Scotland, a three-year programme to survey, and update the plant inventories at the 39 major gardens owned and managed by NTS across Scotland. Accurate plant records are essential, to ensure legal compliance, safe management of the collections, and for supporting visitor engagement and research. Working with the newly implemented IrisBG database, this project represents a major investment in our plant collections and will result in up-to-date plant records across the Trust. The completed inventory will help us safeguard the collections and will provide our property and gardens staff with a reliable, accessible source of collections information for interpretation and visitor enjoyment.

The purpose of this role is to deliver plant collection inventories as part of a regional PLANTS project inventory team on site at properties and to update and process existing accession data within the IrisBG database. The post will involve extensive travel within the region and occasional visits to other parts of Scotland for project meetings and the post holder will be expected to undertake extended periods of time away from home to facilitate this where daily travel distances are impractical.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Undertake plant inventories at properties during the spring and summer seasons using plant identification and research skills to create accurate lists of plants held within the plant collections.
• Process the data collected during the inventories matching established plants found with existing records, creating new records for unregistered plants, and checking the accession records in the database to ensure all data held is accurate and consistent.
• Undertake research into locally held property files and plant records to bring together background and supplementary data surrounding the plant specimens and process this in accordance with records held in IrisBG.
• Produce content for social media and contribute to a program of public and stakeholder communication promoting the project.
• Work with and induct project volunteers and property-based volunteers with a particular focus on facilitating the volunteer led plant photography aspect to the project.
• Work with gardens and property staff to schedule and carry out the inventories and to foster a new culture of record keeping with property teams.
• Engage with the visiting public on location at properties during inventories to promote the project and answer questions whilst working.
• Support gardens staff to follow Trust policies and procedures for the long-term maintenance of the plant inventory information in IrisBG.

ASSISTANT REGISTRAR (BAND 7)
FULL-TIME, FIXED TERM (9 Months)

The functions of the Collections Management Department are to assist the Senior Management Team in the management of and accountability for the NGS collections; the administration of all loans both to and from the galleries; the maintenance and development of the automated documentation system and advising the Director General and Trustees on matters of policy and practice in the management of the collections.

The purpose of the Assistant Registrar is to provide general support to the teams of Registrars in the Collections Management Dept, including Exhibitions, Acquisitions, and Collections Information. The teams work, to critical deadlines for exhibition opening dates, art transport, acquisition and audit programme schedules and have a heavy administrative workload. The Department is also committed to increasing the NGS programme of Touring Exhibitions and expanding our Partnership initiatives, and will continue to develop loans administration, transport and installation schedules.

The postholder should be willing to undertake a variety of tasks, including mundane and repetitive work. A methodical and accurate approach is required, and the ability to communicate easily with staff at all levels in the Department.

The Assistant Registrar (Exhibitions) will report to the Lead Registrar (Exhibitions & Display). The countersigning officer will be the Head of Collections management.