Registration Clerk

Teylers Museum is looking for a Registration Clerk     

Teylers Museum is the oldest museum in the Netherlands. It is a unique 18th-century institution of learning, housed in its original building. The museum is the place to marvel at art and science and boasts a fascinating collection of fossils, minerals, books, coins, medals, scientific instruments, paintings, and drawings of international significance. Recently, the beautifully restored home of founder Pieter Teyler has also opened to the public. We organize diverse and successful exhibitions, ranging from Leonardo da Vinci to Dinomakers, from Vogelpracht to Hockney’s Eye.

Job Description

Fossils are an important source of information for studying the relationship between biodiversity and climate. To facilitate this, Teylers Museum aims to make its fossil collection accessible through the international research database GBIF. A six-month pilot project marks the first step: existing datasets of approximately 5,000 fossils will be converted and their content improved. In this initial selection, the focus is on the museum’s internationally renowned Cretaceous fossil collection, the highlight of which is the first-ever discovered mosasaur skull from 1766.

Teylers is looking for a Registration Assistant to temporarily join the team in the Science Department. Are you someone who can accurately enter a specific dataset into an existing collection registration system? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

Work

• Enter the data from a set of approximately 5,000 collection items (fossils from the Maastricht Cretaceous Collection and 130 type specimens) into AdLib.
  
• Update records from AdLib as needed to comply with DarwinCore (DwC) and Dataset metadata standards.
  
• Update records with new data, including photos of the objects, taxonomic information, and geographic coordinates.  
  
• Prepare the records for export to international databases such as GBIF.
  

What we offer

A dynamic workplace in the heart of Haarlem, working alongside a talented team · A 20-hour-per-week position with competitive benefits in accordance with the Museum Collective Bargaining Agreement. The position is classified in pay grade 7 (a salary between €2,674 and €3,348 gross per month based on a full-time 36-hour workweek).

The position is funded by a project grant and is offered for a period of six months.

Profile

• You have a bachelor's degree, with a specialization in Collection Management
  
• Knowledge and some experience with collection management systems, preferably ADLIB
  
• An interest in museum collections is a plus;
  
• You work meticulously and enjoy collaborating with others.
  

Comment

We aim to make Teylers Museum’s heritage accessible for scholarly research by digitizing it. We hope you will help us achieve this. Please send your resume and a cover letter by March 28, 2023, to vacatures@teylersmuseum.nl, with the subject line “Job Opening: Registration Assistant.” The first round of interviews will take place on April 5, 2023. For more information about the position, please contact the Curator of Science, Eulàlia Gassó Miracle (egasso@teylersmuseum.nl).

Teylers Museum is committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone and to being an open organization where people feel comfortable and safe. We strongly encourage anyone who can contribute to this mission to get in touch.