Project Assistant – 7 posts

Experience Oxfordshire; Kidlington; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension

38 days annual leave

Childcare services

Family leave schemes

Job summary

The University of Oxford's Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) Move Project is recruiting seven Project Assistants to support the final relocation phase of our museum collections. Posts are full-time on a fixed-term basis, across various sites and a central base in Oxford.

You will handle a wide range of museum objects, ensuring packing, transport and storage to professional standards, update databases, maintain location records and perform condition checks.

Qualifications

• Experience in a museum or heritage environment.
• Practical handling, packing and moving museum objects.
• Sound understanding of collections documentation and health & safety procedures.
• Strong attention to detail and accurate record-keeping.

Responsibilities

• Pack and move museum objects to agreed professional standards.
• Update collections databases and maintain location records.
• Perform condition checks on artefacts and respond to any preservation needs.
• Work across multiple sites and coordinate with teams; use handling equipment.

Skills

Museum experience

Object handling

Record keeping

Health & safety

Database experience

Manual handling

Tools

Museum databases

Job description

Job Title: Project Assistant – 7 posts

Location: Various sites across Gardens, Libraries and Museums, team base is the Collections Teaching & Research Centre, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QP)

Hours: Full-time (36.5 hours per week)

Contract type: Fixed-term (until 30th June 2027)

Grade: Grade 4: £28,971 – £32,716 per annum

THIS POST COULD BE CONSIDERED AS A SECONDMENT OPPORTUNITY

About The Role

You will join the University of Oxford’s Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) Move Project, helping to deliver the final stage of an ambitious programme to relocate important museum collections into a new purpose-built storage facility.

You will handle a wide variety of museum objects and delicate artefacts, ensuring that collections are packed, transported and stored according to agreed professional standards. You will also update collections databases, maintain accurate location records, and undertake condition checks.

This role involves manual handling, standing, using stairs and ladders, and operating specialist handling equipment, for which training will be provided. The role involves working across multiple sites, some of which are not easily accessible by public transport, so access to your own vehicle is required.

There are seven full-time roles available on a fixed-term basis, working 36.5 hours per week until 30th June 2027.

About You

You will have experience of working in a museum or heritage environment, ideally within a collections or conservation department, together with practical experience of handling, packing and moving museum objects and delicate artefacts. You will have a sound understanding of collections documentation, museum databases and relevant health and safety procedures, alongside excellent attention to detail and accurate record-keeping skills. You will also be physically able to undertake the manual handling activities associated with the role, with appropriate equipment and reasonable adjustments where required.

What We Offer

Benefits

As an employer, we genuinely care about our employees’ wellbeing and this is reflected in the range of benefits that we offer including:

• An excellent contributory pension scheme
• 38 days of annual leave
• A comprehensive range of childcare services
• Family leave schemes

More information is available at https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs/life-in-oxford

Diversity

Our staff and students come from all over the world, and we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture. Diversity is positively encouraged, through diverse groups and champions, as well as a number of family-friendly policies, such as the right to apply for flexible working and support for staff returning from periods of extended absence, for example, shared parental leave.

We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible. If you require the job description or any other materials in an alternative format, or if you would like to request any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process, please contact the recruitment team at [e-mail].