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Curator (Equipment and Uniform)
- Salary: £30,740pa (plus benefits)
- Contract type: Full-time, fixed-term appointment
- Location: Stevenage
- Closing date: Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 12.00pm (noon)
- Interview date: Tuesday, 2 December 2025
- Downloads: Job description (155KB) | Person specification (127KB)
We’re recruiting for a new member of our curatorial team to work with our unrivalled collections of uniform and equipment at our collections centre in Stevenage. You will help us develop and understand our collections including acquisitions, cataloguing, collections review and disposal work.
The successful post-holder will help us transform access, as we publish our collections more widely, helping us to deliver against our Documentation Plan and Research Strategy. Your work will also provide support to our exhibitions programme, digital activity and other public-facing work.
Experience of projects involving a wide range of military material culture is essential, as is a good working knowledge of the history of the Army and current developments in defence.
Application process
Send your completed application form to hr@nam.ac.uk
Application guidance notes | Rewards and benefits
Reimbursement of reasonable travel expenses is available for all candidates attending an interview.
Please note we reserve the right to close a vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.
Due to the high volume of applications that we receive, we are unable to acknowledge receipt (unless specifically requested) or provide information on why an applicant has not been shortlisted.
Therefore, if you have not heard back from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful. However, we are grateful for the interest you have shown.
About our staff
The National Army Museum employs staff in all of the specialist areas relating to our collections, including Archives and Library, Curatorial and Research, Collections Care, Exhibitions, Learning and Public Programmes.
In addition, we have staff providing other services, including Commercial and Visitor Experience, Technical Services, Development Fundraising, Facilities, Finance and Administration, Human Resources, and Audiences and Communications.
The Museum employs around 100 members of staff in both full- and part-time positions, who are located either at the museum building in Chelsea or at our purpose-built storage and conservation facility in Stevenage. A team of volunteers supports our work.
