Plant Labelling Officer

About the Role

Eram Talent is seeking a Plant Labelling Officer to join their team. This full-time role involves supporting 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 and Collaboration

The Plant Labelling Officer will work closely with botanists, horticulturists, curators, and other technical specialists. This collaboration is essential to ensure that plant identities and collection information remain accurate, consistent, and up to date across all systems and physical labels.

Key Responsibilities

• Create, install, inspect, update, and maintain plant labels for both indoor and outdoor collections.
• Ensure labels contain accurate 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• Conduct regular audits to identify and coordinate the correction or replacement of missing, damaged, outdated, duplicated, or inaccurate labels.
• 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.

Experience and Qualifications

• Candidates should possess 0-1 years of relevant experience.

Work Type

This is a full-time position.

Application Process

Salary details for this position will be discussed during the interview process.