22nd May 2011, 12:50 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:Presumably anyone prepared and able to invest that amount of time isn't very successful in their main job? :face-stir:
Or it could be someone who has been made redundant through no fault of their own due to cuts to historic environment services? Or has retired after a successful career spent in this sector, who feels that this lifetime of experience could usefully be employed in improving things in the future? Or someone so successful in their main job that they don't need to work full time (though I appreciate that this is unlikely in archaeology)?
I think this job will probably go to someone that could be classed as belonging to the archaeological establishment (ex local government curator, pensioned-off academic, former EH Inspector-or-equivalent, retired unit director), but everyone's free to express an interest in it. Why I think it will probably go to someone from one of the groups noted above is that these are the type of people with both the free time to give to a 6-month post and the experience of working within the system to know what changes need to be made, but there's nothing to stop anyone else applying for it (I have no inside knowledge of what the IFA is looking for, so I'm only guessing at the type of person that may be suited to this role)
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum