Gallery or Museum Curator (224212)

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Evaluating and preserving records for administrative, historical, legal, evidential and other purposes
• Preparing record-keeping systems, indexes, guides and procedures for archival research and for the retention and destruction of records
• Identifying and classifying specimens and objects, and arranging restoration work
• Examining items and arranging examinations to determine condition and authenticity
• Designing and revising medical record forms
• Managing organisations' central records systems
• Analysing the record-keeping needs of organisations, and translating these needs into record management systems
• Maintaining computerised and other record management systems and record forms, and advising on their usage
• Controlling access to confidential information, and recommending codes of practice and procedures for accessing records
• Developing record cataloguing, coding and classification systems, and monitoring their use