Plant Labelling Officer

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Plant Labelling Officer to support the accurate identification, documentation, labelling, mapping, and interpretation of living plant collections within a Botanic Garden environment. The role will be responsible for maintaining accurate plant labels, collection records, databases, mapping systems, and visitor-facing botanical information. The successful candidate will work closely with botanists, horticulturists, curators, and other technical specialists to ensure plant identities and collection information remain accurate, consistent, and up to date. Key Responsibilities • Create, install, inspect, update, and maintain plant labels across indoor and outdoor collections. • Ensure labels include accurate scientific names, common names, family information, geographic origin, accession details, and other relevant information. • Verify botanical nomenclature and taxonomy using recognised botanical references. • Conduct regular audits to identify missing, damaged, outdated, duplicated, or inaccurate labels. • Coordinate the correction and replacement of plant labels. • Work with botanists, horticulturists, curators, and other specialists to verify plant identification. • Maintain consistency between physical labels, accession records, databases, maps, and collection-management systems. • Manage and update plant-record databases and maintain accurate records of plant accessions, locations, provenance, movements, replacements, and losses. • Support plant accessioning and deaccessioning activities. • Maintain plant collection mapping systems and conduct field verification of plant locations. • Support the integration of plant records with GIS, digital mapping, and collection-management systems. • Develop and maintain botanical interpretation and visitor-facing information materials. • Translate technical botanical and horticultural information into clear and accessible content. • Support digital plant-identification tools, QR-code systems, mobile applications, interactive maps, and digital collection platforms. • Conduct quality-control reviews of physical and digital plant information. • Support plant inventories and collection audits. • Maintain appropriate data-quality, backup, and version-control practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Horticulture, Botany, Plant Sciences, Plant Taxonomy, or a related discipline
• postgraduate qualification is advantageous.
• Minimum 5+ years of relevant professional experience in horticulture, botanical collections, plant identification, education, or technical capacity-building.
• Strong knowledge of plant identification, taxonomy, nomenclature, and classification, with the ability to identify plants using morphological characteristics, botanical references, and taxonomic keys.
• Proven experience in plant labelling, living-collection documentation, accessioning, provenance, and collection management.
• Experience managing plant databases, electronic records, GIS, mapping systems, and digital collection-management platforms.
• Strong research, information-verification, data-quality, and quality-control skills, with excellent attention to detail.
• Experience developing and delivering horticulture training programmes, including practical, hands-on training.
• Experience developing training materials, technical guides, manuals, presentations, and educational resources related to horticulture.
• Experience assessing training needs, evaluating competency, and supporting internships, apprenticeships, vocational training, or work-based learning programmes.
• Experience conducting horticulture workshops, demonstrations, or community-engagement programmes.
• Ability to translate technical botanical and horticultural information into clear, engaging, visitor-facing content.
• Experience working collaboratively with botanists, horticulturists, curators, researchers, educational institutions, and other technical specialists.
• Familiarity with digital plant-identification tools, QR-code systems, mobile applications, and interactive mapping is advantageous.
• Previous experience in a botanic garden, public garden, horticulture institution, nursery, educational institution, or comparable environment is preferred.
• Strong written communication, technical documentation, organisational, and problem-solving skills.
• Professional training or educational delivery experience in English and Arabic is preferred.

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