Cataloguer - Beyond Wedgwood Project, V&A Wedgwood Collection

This is a Fixed Term Contract, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The Role We are recruiting two exciting new early career roles to join a major cataloguing project at the V&A Wedgwood Collection. This role is perfect for you if you’re interested in museum collections and archives, and bringing material behind the scenes to the widest public through high-quality online records and engaging digital content. These two new cataloguer roles will work on our ‘Beyond Wedgwood’ project, exploring the wider ceramics stories within the V&A Wedgwood Collection. In 2014, the Wedgwood Collection, on of the most historically significant ceramics collections in the world comprising over 175,000 items, was saved for the nation and taken into the V&A’s care after a fundraising campaign led by Art Fund and supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Within the Collection are approximately 60,000 items from the archives of the subsidiary company acquired by the Wedgwood Company which now urgently need cataloguing and digitising. These iconic Staffordshire brands, including Susie Cooper, Johnson’s, Mason’s and Coalport, form a core part of the V&A Wedgwood Collection and tell a story ‘Beyond Wedgwood’. We are looking for: • Cataloguer (Collections) – a fixed-term role supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund focused on the V&A Wedgwood Collection’s object collections. • Cataloguer (Archives) – a fixed-term role supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund focused on the V&A Wedgwood Collection archive collections. You’ll be part of our small V&A Wedgwood Collection team based in Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, on the site of the working Wedgwood factory, and you’ll also work closely with colleagues across the V&A’s family of sites. You’ll receive training on documentation, object handing, and other skills needed to help make the V&A Wedgwood Collection open to all. We appreciate that either of the cataloguer roles we are advertising might be a good fit, so if you have a particular preference please let us know in your application. The V&A The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance. Our mission is to be recognised as the world's leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people's lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience. We strive to make the V&A matter to more people and in that context we work to the following six strategic objectives:

To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.

Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.

Expand the V&A's international reach, reputation and impact.

To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.

Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.

Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources. The Benefits

Generous pension scheme 29 days plus bank holidays Flexible working​ Tickets to V&A exhibitions Subsidised staff canteen 25% discount in V&A shops Give as you earn scheme Bicycle loan

Interest-free season ticket Interest-free rental deposit loan Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike

Wide range of training and professional development opportunities Employee Assistance Programme Staff diversity networks

ED&I at The V&A At the V&A, we are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for all and strive to go above and beyond public duty placed upon us by the Equality Act 2010. As such, we are delighted to share that we are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2. The V&A makes the following commitments to all applications:

The Disability Confident Employer scheme offers guaranteed interviews – Interviewing applicants with a disability who successfully evidence the essential criteria on a person specification and consider them on their abilities;

Providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

Making reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process so disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job.

Supporting employees and adjustments during employment.

In some circumstances, such as when we receive a high volume of applications that meet the minimum criteria, we may not be able to guarantee an interview under the scheme. In these cases, we will interview only the highest-scoring applicants, from both people with disabilities and people without a disability.