National Finds Adviser (PAS) for Iron Age & Roman Coins

The British Museum is excited to announce recruitment for a Finds Adviser for Iron Age and Roman Coins. The postholder will work as part of the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) – a project to record archaeological finds made by the public to advance knowledge – but will be based in the British Museum’s department of Money & Medals.

The PAS has recorded over 1.8 million finds, many of which are Iron Age and Roman coins (see finds.org.uk). The main roles of the postholder will be to provide training for the Scheme’s network of locally based Finds Liaison Officers (FLOs) and others on identifying and recording Iron Age and Roman coins, to help FLOs and other PAS staff in that work, ensure the robustness of the data recorded on the PAS database, and contribute to academic and popular publications to highlight the value of PAS data.

Applicants should have an excellent knowledge of Iron Age and (particularly) Roman coins and have a publication record to suit. Key areas of responsibility include developing and delivering training for Finds Liaison Officers (FLOs), providing advice on identifying and recording Iron Age and Roman coins to FLOs and others, ensuring records added to the PAS database are accurate and consistent, assisting with developing resources for the PAS website/database, contributing to popular and academic publications on Iron Age and Roman coins, and participating in lectures, conferences and other public events, to relay information about PAS data.

The British Museum offers a competitive benefits package including generous annual leave allowance of 25 days (rising to 30 days after 10 years’ service) plus 2.5 privilege days and plus bank holidays, membership of the civil service defined benefit pension scheme, free entry to a wide range of museums and exhibitions, participation in private and public Museum activities, interest-free travel, bicycle, and rental deposit loans, professional and personal development opportunities, employee assistance programme, and discounts on food and gift shop purchases.

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