Kiplin Hall and Gardens – Winter Conservation Intern
Job Description and Person Specification
Post: Winter Conservation Intern
Dates: w/c 9th November 2026 until 26th Feb 2027
Location: Kiplin Hall, near Scorton, Richmond, North Yorkshire, DL10 6AT
Salary: £12.71 per hour
Hours of work: Part time (between 15 and 20 hours per week to be agreed with the successful applicant), can be divided over 3 or 4 days per week
Responsible to: Programming Curator
Applications by CV (no more than two sides of A4) and covering letter (one side of A4), emailed to director@kiplinhall.co.uk. Application deadline Monday 21st September, 9am.
Job Description – Job purpose, duties and responsibilities
This is an opportunity for anyone interested in the conservation of a historic house and an Accredited Museum collection to get some practical paid experience. The intern will receive training in all aspects of the role, and support and guidance from our Collections Officer and Programming Curator. They will have the chance to undertake the wide variety of collections care, conservation and cataloguing tasks that are needed in a historic house/Accredited Museum setting. There will also be the opportunity to work alongside our team of passionate and dedicated volunteers.
With the support of other staff in the organisation, the post-holder will be required to:
- Undertake general preventative conservation cleaning (e.g. dusting and vacuum cleaning)
- Deep conservation cleaning (e.g. cleaning curtains, walls, floors and ceilings as well as furniture and other objects)
- High level work (including safe working from a scaffold). Years of experience has shown the high-level cleaning work is a critical path task that dictates the pace of our winter conservation. We use two scaffold towers to speed the process and so it is critical that the post-holder is physically able to use one to include high-level work.
- Support the Collections Officer in completing object condition checks
- Object audit
- Object marking and labelling
- Update the collections database (using Modes Complete computer software)
- Assisting with moving items for displays and storage. Checking and updating condition reports. Creating new condition reports when required.
Note: Notwithstanding the Job Purpose and Duties & Responsibilities included in this job description, the post-holder must be prepared to undertake additional tasks, duties and responsibilities at the discretion of the Programming Curator and that fall within the general remit of collections and conservation.
Specific training you will receive (in-house unless otherwise specified)
- Use of 2-way radios
- Use of Modes (collections database software)
- Object marking
- Condition reports
- Use of scaffold – building, dismantling, and use.
- Conservation cleaning and general cleaning of various materials
- Other suitable opportunities may arise through third party suppliers (such as Museum Development North)
For details of the full person specification visit here.
Kiplin Hall CIO is an equal opportunity employer. Kiplin Hall welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
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