7 Heritage / Culture / Library jobs in Market Harborough, Leicestershire

As Volunteering Officer you will manage, supervise, support and develop volunteers across our Market Town Museums at Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough and Loughborough. Research Volunteers meet on Mondays at Harborough Museum and on Wednesdays Research and Garden Volunteers meet at Melton Carnegie Museum. We are looking to create new volunteering opportunities at Harborough Museum. You will support our existing volunteers and recruit new volunteers, to deliver activities which enhance our visitor experience and public access to museum collections in its widest sense while ensuring the continued delivery of best practice in volunteer management. Support will include registering and processing volunteer expenses claims, celebrating volunteers' achievements and developing their skills, knowledge and experience where applicable. You will work with the service's Volunteer Development Team, Library colleagues and Charnwood Burrough Council staff to develop new opportunities for volunteering. Some infrequent weekend or evening working may be required to support events that involve volunteers or celebrate projects which include volunteers' contributions. An enhanced DBS check is required for this post. For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement., We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

• Have experience of guiding and supporting volunteers, preferably in museum galleries, displays and collections spaces
• Understanding of museum conservation, collections care and management processes and working with historic objects
• Knowledge of best practice for volunteer management with experience of successfully delivering volunteer projects
• Excellent communication skills, able to work across teams and service boundaries, with the ability to resolve conflict
• Supporting Health and Safety compliance and implementing Health and Safety audits and reviews
• Communicating with service users in a museum or other relevant public setting
• You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to .