The National Trust have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant National Curator to join the National Trust on a 12-month fixed-term basis. In this role, you’ll work closely with our photography collections, helping to develop them while expanding knowledge, access, and engagement. You’ll support colleagues at several significant places and contribute to our partnership work, ensuring these remarkable collections are shared and appreciated by all.
What it's like to work here
We care for over half a million photographs from the 1840s to today, including negatives, prints, and albums across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. In this role, you'll travel to select National Trust places, working with staff to develop plans for their photography collections.
As this is a national role, there is flexibility on your contractual place of work. Our hybrid working policy means you can balance office and home working with site visits and meetings at other National Trust places. We’ll talk about this in more detail at interview, but you should expect to be at a National Trust site for 40–60% of your working week.
What you'll be doing
As part of the national curatorial team, you’ll collaborate with colleagues across the Trust to enhance knowledge and access to our diverse photography collections, with a focus on photograph albums. Your expertise will help champion best practice through cataloguing, inclusive research, and deeper interpretation.
Working to support a key partnership, you’ll share stories and emerging themes to shape engaging interpretation and reach wider audiences. You’ll also support conservation colleagues in ensuring the long-term care of these collections. With your passion for photography, you’ll help increase its visibility, both digitally and at our places.
You can view the full role profile for this role in the document attached. You don't need to have all the knowledge, skills and experience listed in the role profile; this is just to provide a full picture of what’s possible in this role.
Who we're looking for
- a relevant degree or equivalent experience
- a curatorial and research photography specialism, or ability and desire to develop this
- experience with collections databases, museum documentation standards and practice
- research and curatorial experience in the museum, heritage or culture sector
- ability to communicate knowledge and enthusiasm in engaging ways
- confidence with working collaboratively and creatively, building effective relations with a wide range of people internally and externally
- competent working independently to plan, undertake and deliver objectives
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