Plant Labelling Officer

About the Role

Eram Talent is seeking an experienced Plant Labelling Officer to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role focuses on the accurate identification, documentation, labelling, mapping, and interpretation of living plant collections within a Botanic Garden environment. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining precise plant labels, collection records, databases, mapping systems, and visitor-facing botanical information.

Role Context

The Plant Labelling Officer will work collaboratively with botanists, horticulturists, curators, and other technical specialists. The primary objective is to ensure that plant identities and collection information remain accurate, consistent, and current across all platforms and physical labels.

Key Responsibilities

• Create, install, inspect, update, and maintain plant labels for both indoor and outdoor collections.
• Ensure labels accurately display scientific names, common names, family information, geographic origin, and accession details.
• Verify botanical nomenclature and taxonomy using recognized botanical references.
• Conduct regular audits to identify and address missing, damaged, outdated, duplicated, or inaccurate labels.
• Coordinate the correction and replacement of plant labels as needed.
• Collaborate with specialists to verify plant identification.
• Maintain consistency across physical labels, accession records, databases, maps, and collection-management systems.
• Manage and update plant-record databases, including 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.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 5-10 years of experience in a related field.
• Demonstrated experience in plant labelling, collection management, or botanical record-keeping.
• Proficiency in botanical nomenclature, taxonomy, and plant identification.
• Experience with plant-record databases, mapping systems, and collection-management software.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves working within a Botanic Garden setting, requiring both indoor and outdoor activities.

Application Process

Candidates who meet the qualifications are encouraged to apply.