Issue details

The post of Assistant Museums Officer (Military History) (AMO(MH)) superseded the post of Curatorial Support Assistant in October 2017. Since coming into post in January 2018, the Assistant Museums Officer has identified additional opportunities to increase collections engagement and potential income generation opportunities through digitisation which require better cataloguing of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (K.O.Y.L.I.) Regimental collection.
The Assistant Museums Officer (Military History) is currently working on the new build museum and library project. The addition of the Curatorial Assistant role will be key in preparing the K.O.Y.L.I. museum for future digitisation and income generation opportunities, better managing the collection for the benefit of the public who access it, and assist with the new build project through an increase in service capacity.
The key responsibilities of this post will be:
• Reorganisation, sorting and cataloguing the Regimental Museum’s photographic collection, including identification of material for digitisation.
• Inventorying our store against current CMS records and making changes, as well as identification of material for digitisation
• Assist with object level cataloguing of previously bulk accessioned ephemera collections, to include identification of material for digitisation
• Assist with creation of catalogues of material for use with family history researchers and to promote material in the collection
• Other duties, where necessary, to include assistance with new build museum project
External funding of £60,479.92 over two years has been committed from the Army Museums Ogilby Trust to fund both the Curatorial Assistant post for 2 years, and the uplift in salary of the Assistant Museums Officer (Military History) to become their line manager for the length of the contract.