Association of Anaesthetists
Collections Officer (FTC)
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Vacancy: Collections Officer FTC – Museum of Anaesthesia
The Association of Anaesthetists is the professional membership organisation for anaesthetists in the UK, Ireland, and across the globe. With over 10,000 members, our mission is to safeguard patients by educating, supporting, and inspiring every anaesthetist throughout their career, enabling them to provide the best care in every healthcare setting. Our four strategic priorities are Patient Care and Safety, Education and Research, Advocacy and Support, and Innovation and Growth. Our values are embedded in everything we do. We are:
- Committed: We are a respected and independent organisation, committed to speaking up and speaking out on behalf of our members and the anaesthesia community
- Trusted: For over 90 years, we have helped to set standards, share knowledge, and support thousands of people in a vital profession. Our expertise matters to our members and globally
- Innovative: We look forward, not back. We care about the future of anaesthesia and actively help shape its future on behalf of our members by listening, responding, and innovating
- Connected: We are a dynamic, diverse, and inclusive community. We exist because of, and on behalf of, our members
We're looking for a Collections Officer to join the Association of Anaesthetists and help care for the Museum of Anaesthesia's remarkable collection of nearly 5,000 objects, 1,000 archive documents, and 7,000 library items, tracing the history of the specialty from the 1840s to today.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a museum professional to lead on a set of exciting, time-limited projects, including the Museum's re-accreditation, a collections move to new storage, a digitisation project with Axiell, and coordinating our next temporary exhibition, all while based at our historic headquarters at 21 Portland Place, London.
This is a part-time (3 days/week), 12-month fixed-term contract with hybrid working. Read the full job description and please submit a CV and a covering letter explaining why you are applying for this role to recruitment@anaesthetists.org.
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Job Purpose
To link the past with the present and keep alive the history of the specialty through education and information and preserving our heritage. – Museum Vision
The Museum of Anaesthesia
The Museum of Anaesthesia grew out of A. Charles King’s private collection of historic anaesthetic apparatus, which he donated to the Association of Anaesthetists in 1953. The collection has since grown to include nearly 5,000 objects, 1,000 archive documents, and 7,000 library items. Objects span the entire history of the profession and tell the story of modern anaesthesia from its earliest beginnings in the 1840s, to technological advancements, and its use in war and childbirth. The Museum of Anaesthesia is housed in the Association of Anaesthetist’s headquarters at 21 Portland Place, where it has a purpose-built exhibition gallery that tells the story of the history of anaesthesia.
Role Description
The Collections Officer will lead on the collections management, documentation, and care of the Museum of Anaesthesia's object, library, and archive collections. This is a fixed-term role created to deliver a defined set of time-limited projects, such as completing the Museum's re-accreditation application, overseeing the collections move to new off-site storage, implementing the recommendations of a grant-funded collections care audit, progressing a digitisation exercise with Axiell, and coordinating the Museum's next temporary exhibition. By delivering these projects, the post holder will help preserve the history of anaesthesia and make it accessible for all. Once these deliverables are complete, the fixed-term need for this post will end.
This is a part-time, 3 days per week role based at our head office in 21 Portland Place, London, on a 12-month contract. We offer a hybrid working arrangement with a minimum of one day in the office per week for this role.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead completion of the Museum's re-accreditation application, targeted for submission in January 2027.
- Oversee the collections move, commencing January 2027, including planning, logistics, and post-move storage arrangements.
- Take forward the recommendations of the grant-funded collections care audit, a piece of work expected to take 6+ months, run alongside and following the collections move.
- Liaise with Axiell, the Museum's database provider, to complete a digitisation exercise.
- Coordinate and arrange the Museum's next temporary exhibition and associated engagement events, with the exhibition launching in April/May 2027.
- Design and deliver the Museum’s contribution to the Association’s new event, GasFest, in September 2027.
- All aspects of collections' management and documentation, in line with agreed policies and procedures, including acquisition, registration, cataloguing, deaccessioning, digitisation, environmental control, loan processing, insurance, records digitisation, storage maintenance (on and off site), and information retrieval in response to research requests.
- All aspects of collections' care, in line with agreed policies and procedures, including emergency preparedness strategy, security, integrated pest management, environmental monitoring and control, housekeeping procedures, building management systems, and routine checks of properties.
- Recruit and train collections volunteers and develop the current museum team in collections management.
- Write or contribute to funding applications, proposals, and strategic plans.
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Operational Management
- Maintain and improve your own competencies through continuous professional development
- Abide by organisational policies, codes of conduct, and practice as described in the Staff Handbook
- Support and promote the Association’s commitment to diversity and equity of opportunity in the workplace
This job description is intended to reflect the main duties and responsibilities of the post and is not an exhaustive list of duties. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties which are commensurate with the role.
Further information can be found on the Association's website. Please submit a CV and cover letter to recruitment@anaesthetists.org.
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