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General and Conservation Cleaner (Part Time)

Salary: £20,400 pro rata.

The Scott Polar Research Institute has a vacancy for a part-time (15 hours per week Mon-Fri) General & Conservation Cleaner. We are looking for someone who is flexible, content working both alone and as part of a team and friendly attitude to work. You should have a good level of oral communication and understanding of English enabling you to understand and follow written and verbal instructions including safety instructions regarding the use of cleaning chemicals. You will need a reasonable level of physical fitness as the role can be quite active.

Duties include undertaking day to day conservation cleaning and checks of our museum objects on display in the galleries and around the site and maintaining the general upkeep of the museum and facilities. You will also conduct routine H&S checks for the building, including water temperature checks for the preventions of Legionnaires' disease and ensuring H&S records are kept up to date.

You will also be expected to undertake cleaning duties when providing cover for colleagues in the cleaning team when needed, help prepare our event spaces and support any larger scale conservation projects with the Library and Museum team.

We are a welcoming and friendly Department, located on Lensfield Road in Central Cambridge with We hold regular staff events, offer free passes for friends and family to the University Botanical Gardens.

The role is permanent, and we are happy to discuss flexibility on working times and days to suit the right applicant. Full training will be provided but an interest in conservation and museum would be advantageous.

The pro rata salary is approx. £8,500 per annum. Start and finish times can be agreed upon appointment but the start time will need to begin before 10am on Museum weekday openings (Tues -Fri).

Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a health assessment and a security check.

Click the 'Apply' button below to register an account with our recruitment system (if you have not already) and apply online.

Full details of the role and requirements are available in the further particulars.

Informal enquiries about the post are also welcome via email to Chloe Weston, cw756@cam.ac.uk

Please quote reference LD36014 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

PA to the Institute Director & Events Coordinator (Part Time)

Salary: £24,285-£27,929 pro rata.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Scott Polar Research Institute and Museum (SPRI) as a permanent part-time Personal Assistant (PA) & Events Coordinator.

The hours for this role are split between acting as PA to our Institute Director (0.5) and as Events Coordinator (0.3) for the Institute. As PA you will support the Institute Director in their work and help to keep SPRI running smoothly. This varied role will include diary management, drafting correspondence, making travel arrangements, preparing meeting documents and taking minutes for institute committee meetings chaired by the Director. In addition, you will support general Institute operations and organise annual tasks such as collating and editing information for the annual SPRI Review. As Events Coordinator you will support the delivery of a variety of small scale private and public events hosted by SPRI during the course of the Academic Year. These could including conferences, seminars, exhibition launches, academic workshops and fundraising events which take place during working hours and on very rare occasions, evenings and weekends. You be the first point of contact for event queries and will also help publicise them on the Institute's webpages and social media. Then, with the Institute Administrator, you will coordinate the planning, marketing and delivery of these events, liaising with our Library and Museum teams where necessary.

The ideal candidate will have experience in office administration and organising a variety of event styles and will be confident in IT skills and willing to learn new software. If you are organised, self-motivated, skilled in communicating across platforms and audiences and like to have a diverse range of work, then this could be the role for you. Knowledge about the Polar Regions is not necessary, however an interest in the work of the Scott Polar Research Institute is desirable.

The role is based at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road, Cambridge. The post-holder can apply for on-site parking (renewed annually) and we are located close to the train station and bus station in central Cambridge. The hours for the role are 29 p/wk Monday - Friday but we are flexible on work patterns so long as key duties are covered. Depending on event requirements, there may be some evening working (up to 7pm) or on rare occasions weekends, with time off in lieu.

Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a health assessment.

Click the 'Apply' button below to register an account with our recruitment system (if you have not already) and apply online.

Full details of the role and requirements are available in the further particulars.

Informal enquiries about the post are also welcome via email to Naomi Chapman, nc408@cam.ac.uk

Please quote reference LD35769 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

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