Learn: Paid Maritime Museum Assistant Placement

Are you looking for an opportunity to gain some work experience? Would you like to see what it’s like to try out different jobs? We know it can sometimes be hard to find a job and volunteering isn’t always practical or affordable, so Brave Island is really excited to have teamed up with a range of different organisations to offer a number of paid placements. The Maritime Museum Assistant Placement is a six month opportunity hosted by The Maritime Archaeology Trust at The Shipwreck Centre & Maritime Museum. We’re looking for a young person interested in learning more about working within a museum.

The placement holder will learn about the different roles involved in running a small museum with a focus on marketing and collections. Here’s a little bit more about what the role involves:

• Producing content for social media, with the opportunity to be innovative
• Devising a social media and marketing strategy
• Assisting with exhibitions and collections
• Archiving/databasing/researching objects, collections, and themes

By getting involved, you could:

• Learn more about the various jobs within a small museum
• Try out different roles to find out which type of career interests you
• Gain valuable skills which you can take forward into future roles across areas such as marketing, education and outreach, and working with exhibitions and collections
• Have the opportunity to expand areas of this role depending on your interests

This role will suit you if you:

• Have a keen interest in heritage and local history
• Are interested in learning more about working within a museum
• Have an interest in creating content to share stories
• Are able to take initiative and contribute ideas
• Enjoy meeting new and different people and working as part of a team

This placement is open to those aged 18-25 for the duration of the placement. It is one day per week for 6 months, and you will be paid a stipend of £100/day. You will have the opportunity to work across, or choose between, the established Shipwreck Centre & Maritime Museum in Arreton and the new unopened future museum site in Yarmouth.

Please read the information pack below for all the practical info, and email megan@ventnorexchange.co.uk if you have any questions. Please answer all questions below to apply; if you have a CV you would like to upload feel free using the choose file button, but you don’t have to.

This placement starts at the beginning of April, and finishes in September. The day of the week and exact time will be confirmed with you if you are selected for this role, as we will try and be accommodating of your schedule where possible.

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