Paintings Conservator Touring Exhibitions

Paintings Conservator Touring Exhibitions

Location: Edinburgh

Salary: £37,614 - £41,138 per annum plus generous benefits

Application Deadline: Monday, April 6, 2026

Job Summary

Full time and fixed term to 31 March 2030. On site with flexible working.

About the role

We are delighted to announce a new opportunity for an experienced Paintings Conservator to join our Conservation Department at the National Galleries of Scotland.

We are seeking a skilled and collaborative Conservator to help us share our collection with audiences around the world. To succeed in this post, you'll bring resourcefulness, enthusiasm, and excellent interpersonal skills along with a strong professional network. You will have evidence based skills as a Painting Conservator, and you will be confident in assessing and treating a wide range of materials and formats.

Our extensive painting collection is often on the move. You'll be at the heart of sharing this collection with the widest possible audience ensuring that works from our rich and varied painting collection travel safely, sustainably and look their very best when on display. Your work will play a vital role in delivering our wider strategy, supporting our Public Offer, equalities and environmental priorities.

You'll help preserve the collection while enabling us to deliver a generous lending programme from our diverse collections, also an ambitious number of exhibitions across our galleries. Through research and outreach, you will deepen knowledge of the collection and help attract new audiences to engage with it.

This is more than just a conservation role. It is an opportunity to make a lasting difference to the way we care for, understand and share our collection.

About the Touring Programme

National Galleries of Scotland is launching an ambitious international touring programme contributing to our aim to make art work for everyone. This new initiative builds on past touring success and increases opportunities for the collection to be shared with audiences across the world. The touring programme is also part of our strategy to grow our income to ensure our future financial sustainability.

Work has already begun and we are now recruiting a number of posts from May 2026 to support taking the touring programme forward. The programme will run initially to 31 March 2030. The success of the initiative will determine next steps for both the programme and the team supporting it.

You will help to deliver this ambitious new initiative. This is an excellent opportunity for a results driven individual to demonstrate their impact and contribute to shaping the success of the programme.

The closing date for completed applications is 12 noon on Monday, 6 April 2026.

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Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

At the National Galleries of Scotland we're committed to embedding Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in the way we work. We want everyone to feel a sense of belonging and freedom to be themselves at work or at play with us. Take a look at our Equality, Inclusion and Diversity priorities and commitments for more information.