Digital Curator of Roman Coins - 2 posts

Reporting to the Project Manager, you and the other digital curator of Roman coins will work on the digitisation of c. 110,000 Roman Republican and Imperial coins for three years. You will photograph coins and their tickets, process images, provide core data and identify the coins in printed and online standard reference works.

You have excellent general IT skills and know how to use coin databases and image processing software. You can identify Roman Republican and Roman Imperial coins in the relevant printed or online reference works quickly and accurately. You know how to record Roman Republican and Roman Imperial coins in a numismatic database quickly, accurately, consistently and in line with the relevant standards.

The Heberden Coin Room is a department of the Ashmolean Museum, in the University of Oxford. With c. 300,000 coins of all periods and all countries and collections of medals, tokens, and paper money, it represents one of the leading international coin cabinets (see: https://www.ashmolean.org/heberden-coin-room).

This is a full-time, permanent position, working 37.5 hours per week for three years. This position could provide the opportunity for remote working for up to two days per week., As an employer, we genuinely care about our employees' wellbeing and this is reflected in the range of benefits that we offer including:

• An excellent contributory pension scheme
• 38 days of annual leave
• A comprehensive range of childcare services
• Family leave schemes
• Cycle loan scheme
• Discounted bus travel and Season Ticket travel loans, An automatic annual increment each year will be paid up to (and not including) the discretionary range within the University of Oxford's grade 7 salary scale.