Curatorial Assistant

1 month ago


Johannesburg, South Africa University of the Witwatersrand Full time

**Minimum Requirements**:

- BSc degree or diploma
- Existing curatorial experience will be advantageous but not essential

**Key Competencies**:

- Excellent attention to detail.
- Good interpersonal skills
- Must work as part of a team
- Integrity, reliability and dependability

**Key Performance Areas**:

- To sort and organise the existing fossil plant collection in the herbarium, catalogue new material.
- Update the digital fossil plant catalogue
- Take digital photographs of type specimens and upload them onto the database.
- Maintenance of field and preparation equipment.
- To be willing to learn other techniques such as the preparation of fossil plants, moulds and casts for the casting of original specimens for research and exhibition, fieldwork, palynology and thin sectioning.
- Any other technical task required by the Director to be undertaken at the ESI.

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- **Closing date**:08 September 2024

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