EMKP Project Curator: Digital

Join the British Museum’s largest digital programme - the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (EMKP) - and play a key role in preserving global craft, architectural, technological and cultural knowledge. As Project Curator: Digital, you’ll help drive EMKP’s digital strategy, manage and audit digital assets for its open-access repository, and strengthen the programme’s digital platforms, workflows and accessibility. You’ll work with researchers and communities worldwide, supporting digital preservation, teaching digital skills, and contributing to public-facing digital content and dissemination.

About you: We’re looking for someone with strong digital preservation and asset-management skills, experience working with digital collections or archives, and a passion for safeguarding cultural knowledge. You’ll be a confident communicator who can collaborate across global networks, deliver training, and support a diverse community of grantees. You thrive in project-driven environments, balancing deadlines with creative problem-solving, and bring both technical expertise and cultural sensitivity to your work.

Key areas of responsibility: Support, maintain and develop EMKP’s digital infrastructure, ensuring systems remain robust, usable and future-focused. Deliver EMKP’s digital preservation strategy by managing the repository, overseeing digital asset ingest and publication, and ensuring best practice in rights, ethics and metadata. Audit digital assets submitted by grantees, ensuring accuracy, data quality and smooth publication to the open-access repository. Contribute to EMKP’s digital dissemination by supporting web content, social media outputs and public-facing digital storytelling. Provide digital support, training and capacity-building for EMKP grantees, colleagues and wider stakeholder communities.

Benefits: We've designed a benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary. Our full list of benefits can be found here, but we’ve outlined some highlights below: Free exhibition entry for you and guests, exclusive private views, ICOM and reciprocal museum access. Discounts at onsite catering, Museum shops and local Bloomsbury partners. Peer support and allyship with five diversity networks for community. Learning and development through courses, mentoring and Athena as well as support for professional qualifications. Support for carers through Employers for Carers. Civil Service Pension Scheme with a secure, inflation-linked defined benefit. Interest-free loans including season ticket, rental deposit and bicycle loans.