Preventive Conservator (Projects)

Join IWM as a Preventive Conservator (Projects) and play a key role in preserving our world-class collections. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a wide range of projects, including loans, temporary exhibitions, gallery rotations, and master planning initiatives.

About The Role

As part of the Preservation Team within the Department of Collections Care, you will:

• Deliver preservation programmes across IWM sites, supporting exhibitions, loans, and gallery projects.
• Implement Integrated Pest Management, environmental monitoring and control, hazard awareness, and emergency planning.
• Provide expert advice on collections care, including risk assessments, environmental analysis, and safe display practices.
• Support specialist projects such as light management and the care of light-sensitive, mixed media collections.
• Collaborate with colleagues across departments to ensure best practices in preventive conservation.
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• A qualification in preventive conservation, museum studies, or equivalent experience
• Strong knowledge of agents of deterioration and preventive conservation principles
• Experience with environmental monitoring, light recording, and reporting
• Skilled in analysing environmental data to support decision-making
• Confident in assessing the condition of mixed media collections
• Willingness to travel across IWM sites as required
  
  

If you're passionate about preventive conservation and want to make a lasting impact on the care of nationally significant collections, we’d love to hear from you.

Please note this is a 1-year fixed term contract.

For a full list of duties and the person specification (which your application will be marked against) please view the Job Description.