Documentation and Collections Assistant
The Amelia Scott Closing date: Wed, 25 Nov 2026
- Full time
- £25k-£30k
- Apply now
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Job Summary
Job Description
Are you passionate about heritage collections and the stories they tell?
This is an exciting opportunity to join the collections team at The Amelia Scott and play an important role in caring for, documenting and improving access to its collections.
As our Documentation and Collections Assistant, you'll help ensure that collection records are accurate, objects are carefully tracked and information is preserved for the future. You'll work across a varied range of activities, from processing acquisitions, loans and object movements to digitisation, environmental monitoring and exhibition changeovers.
This is a practical and varied role where no two days are quite the same. You could be updating collection records, photographing objects, supporting volunteers, answering a research enquiry or helping with a display changeover. You'll also have opportunities to contribute to projects involving colleagues, external partners and the wider community.
Job Requirements
You'll have experience of working or volunteering in the heritage sector, such as within a museum or archive, together with a heritage-related degree or qualification.
You'll bring a good working knowledge of collections documentation and record-management standards, including SPECTRUM and ISAD(G), and an understanding of collections management systems and digitisation. Experience of using a collections management system, particularly MODES, would be an advantage but is not essential.
Accuracy and attention to detail will be central to your work, but you'll also need to be organised, approachable and confident communicating with different people. You'll enjoy being part of a team, be willing to learn and have a genuine interest in culture, collections and heritage.
Job Responsibilities
- Maintain accurate collections documentation, records and object locations.
- Process acquisitions, disposals, loans and object movements in line with SPECTRUM 5.1 and museum procedures.
- Support collections care, including environmental monitoring and recording data.
- Contribute to digitisation through data entry, photography, image management and metadata.
- Provide practical support for exhibitions and display changeovers
respond to enquiries from visitors, researchers and other collections users.
- Guide and support volunteers and student placements
work with colleagues and external partners on collections projects and engagement activities.
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Job Overview
- Job Title: Documentation and Collections Assistant
- Salary: £25k-£30k
- Hours: Full time
- Artform: Museums
- Role: Curation
- Contract: Permanent
- Closing date: Wed, 25 Nov 2026
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Location:
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Job: Documentation and Collections Assistant
Job: Documentation and Collections Assistant
Organisation: The Amelia Scott
Postcode: TN11LS
How to Apply
Closing date midnight on Wednesday 25 November, 2026.
Apply online here: https://tunbridgewellsjobs.tribepad-gro.com/members/modules/job/detail.php?record=176
- Contact name: Heather Stracey
- Contact email: [email protected]
About The Amelia Scott
The Amelia Scott is a unique centre that brings people and culture together. It is a place for meeting, getting help, learning, and socialising, with a museum, art gallery, libraries, study spaces, cafe, and council services all under one roof. Books, museum objects, documents, photographs, and visual arts bring alive people’s stories and unexpected tales from Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding area.