Project Assistant & Cataloguer (African Photography Collections) at The British Museum.

Part-time role on Image Makers: exploring photographs from Africa, a British Museum project focused on historic photographic collections from Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Working with the Project Curator and Project Lead, you will catalogue the collections to Museum standards, upload digitised images to the Museum's database, organise several thousand photographs so project partners in Africa can access them, support biographical and provenance research, and maintain project documentation.

You will also support African artists visiting the collections in London and help academics, artists and the public consult the photographs.

Requires a degree or equivalent experience in a relevant subject (e.g.

African history, art history, anthropology), plus essential experience of cataloguing collections with a collections management database and of working with image databases, museum objects or photographic collections.

Social media writing skills a bonus.