Job Description

North Lincolnshire Council is recruiting a Curator Social History to join our innovative Museums team to drive forward our ambitions to make North Lincolnshire a leading area for arts and culture.



This post is responsible for the day-to-day operational management and development of the North Lincolnshire Museums Social History collection. This includes creating exhibitions and interpretation at North Lincolnshire Museum and Normanby Hall Country Park.



You must have a background of working in museums and with a collection, and experience of delivering projects and partnership working. You will have a professional specialism in a museum-related subject area and a professional qualification in a relevant subject.



You will have excellent communication skills and good knowledge and experience of working with museum collections. You will be IT literate with experience of working with collections databases. You will be able to respond to collections enquiries and research requests. You will have experience of creating engagaing exhibitions in a museum environment. With the ability to undertake dynamic collecting to selectively increase and rationalise the collections in line with collections policies and strategies.



Please see attached job description and employee specification which you should refer to when completing your application to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.



If you are interested in joining us to achieve better outcomes for residents and communities in North Lincolnshire and would like an informal discussion about this role, please call Eveline van Breemen on 01724 297594 during office hours, Monday - Friday.



Interviews will take place at North Lincolnshire Museum on Thursday 4 September 2025.



We are collectively organised around the people and place of North Lincolnshire. Together we ensure that our communities are safe, well, prosperous and connected. We are ambitious for North Lincolnshire, we want our area to be the #BestPlace for our residents by being the #BestCouncil we can be. We achieve this through living our values - equality of opportunity, excellence, integrity and self-responsibility - in all that we do.