Curator - extend

Closing date for applications: 29 August 2025

Salary: £28,000 - £37,800 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Location: Glasgow, Pacific Quay, BBC Scotland, hybrid

Contract type: Permanent, Full-time

Department: Archive and Library Services

Job band: C

Want to help preserve the history of the BBC? Curate, conserve and promote its diverse archives for future generations.

Curators work across the BBC’s archive collections applying their knowledge and expertise to promote re-use and exploration of the archive by content makers. Join our team and help preserve the rich history of the BBC archive. In this role, you’ll acquire, curate, conserve, and research valuable collections, ensuring they remain accessible for generations to come. You’ll also actively promote and market the archive, bringing its treasures to wider audiences.


Responsibilities

• Support the active development, management, promotion, and curation of the BBC archive
• Conduct activities such as research, cataloguing, acquisition, and collection building
• Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders to grow use of the archive collections
• Align archive activities with broader BBC objectives to maximise engagement
• Maintain archive policies and standards while managing collections effectively
• Act as an ambassador for BBC archives, developing deep expertise in the collections

Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential

• Understanding of BBC content and how the archive might further contribute
• Demonstrable subject matter knowledge in archives or broadcast and media content management
• Ability to use IT proficiently, including a range of software packages and collaboration tools
• Experience of influencing, negotiating and communicating effectively both internally and with external agencies/partners with the ability to problem solve and suggest effective solutions
• Effective planning and organising skills. Ability to concentrate on several areas of work at one time, prioritising, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities

Desirable

• Experience of working as a curator, archivist or librarian
• Experience of working in a broadcast or content production environment
• Knowledge of BBC output, editorial guidelines and other compliance policies
• Gaelic language skills
• Knowledge of broadcasting technology practices, relevant regulations

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.


Eligibility

This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis. If you’d like more information on BBC Extend, please visit the BBC Extend webpage.

We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact extend@bbc.co.uk.

The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.