Job Description
Horticultural Curator
London (with regular travel to all our client's sites)
The Organisation
Our client manages green spaces across London.
They are now looking for a Horticultural Curator to join them on a full-time, permanent basis, working 36 hours per week.
The Benefits
- Salary of £48,000 - £51,000 per annum depending on experience
- 26 days' annual leave plus public holidays, increasing to 29 days after 3 years' service
- Pension scheme (3% employee contribution; up to 10% employer contribution)
- Hybrid/agile working options
- Private medical insurance and healthcare cash plan
- Employee assistance programme and access to mental health first aiders
- Learning and development opportunities
- Cycle to work scheme
- Offices in a beautiful location
This is an unmissable opportunity for a high-calibre horticultural professional who has managed curated public landscapes and possesses broad plant knowledge to join our client's iconic charity organisation.
You'll have the rare chance to influence horticulture on a remarkable scale, leaving a visible and lasting mark on more than countless acres of historic landscapes and public spaces.
What's more, you'll join an organisation that values both professional growth and personal wellbeing, with learning and development opportunities, a supportive team, and offices in a beautiful location.
So, if you're ready to help guide the future of horticulture across these cherished sites, read on and apply today!
The Role
As a Horticultural Curator, you will support the development of beautiful, resilient and biodiverse landscapes across our client's sites.
Specifically, you will deliver one of their key strategic objectives to 'Conserve and Enhance'.
Working closely with eleven Head Gardeners, you will support horticultural projects across the sites through both practical and planning input, ensuring planting schemes respond to heritage, climate change and biodiversity challenges.
You will help source plants from a diverse range of nurseries, support procurement planning for larger projects and ensure new plantings deliver the best outcomes for people, nature and long-term landscape sustainability.
Additionally, you will:
- Manage and issue horticultural guidance documents and support quality standards
- Oversee and administer a volunteer group
- Support the Head Gardener team with plant sourcing and horticultural diversity across the sites, ensuring each site has its own style and identity without duplication
About You
To be considered as a Horticultural Curator, you will need:
- Experience working at management level in a curated landscape garden setting that has a wide breadth of plant groups
- Demonstrable experience working in spaces open to the public
- Experience curating a broad range of plant groups
- Experience writing copy to explain and communicate changes and evolution of horticulture for media, press and PR interpretation and fundraising material
- Broad knowledge and understanding of horticultural plant diversity, its display and curation, and how to interpret it to visitors
- Knowledge of the UK and, in some cases, European nurseries
- An understanding of the sensitivities involved with evolving planting styles
- Wide reaching networks through plant committees and industry bodies to enable collaboration and best value for the charity
Other organisations may call this role Botanical Curator, Garden Curator, Horticulture Manager, or Head of Living Collections.
Our client wants to put everyone in the best possible position to succeed and uses Recite-me accessibility software. At the top of the application page, there is an "Accessibility Tools" button which you can use to complete the application form in a way that works for you.
Our client is strongly committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunities employer. They value diversity and encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds. They believe that the more inclusive they are, the better their work will be.
So, if you are interested in this unique opportunity as a Horticultural Curator, please apply via the button shown. Successful candidates will be appointed on merit.
