£11.44 per hour + £1.38 holiday pay
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Role & Department Overview

Please note: these internships are only available to current students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Lancaster University. 

If you apply for this role the information within your application will be shared with the recruiting organisation.

Interviews will take place in the week commencing Monday 13 January 2025.

The Friends of Lancaster City Museum (FOLCM) is a voluntary organisation that has been supporting Lancaster City Museum for more than 20 years.  The FOLCM work hard to advocate for the City Museum, raising awareness of its work within the local community. Since its foundation the Friends have supported conservation work, promoted the Museum and have assisted in the purchase of acquisitions. The FOLCM supported the Museum’s ‘100 Objects’ podcast series in 2023.

This Trading Card Game Internship offers the opportunity to be involved in a pioneering project for the UK museum sector. The Trading Card Game will make direct use of the collections of Lancaster City and Maritime Museums to bring them to life through competitive collecting, trading and battling. 

Inspired by the ‘100 Years, 100 Objects’ exhibition launched to celebrate the centenary of the City Museum in 2023, there will be 100 collectible cards, illustrated creatively to depict the Object they display, with information on the history of the Object and its battling abilities. These cards are intended to be collected for their original design quality and used to battle other players for pleasure or competition. The Trading Card Game highlights the unique abilities or powers which each Object possesses and uses those powers in a situation of friendly combat, to build up a winning deck of Objects during the game and become a Master Curator. This combination of combative gameplay with deck-building strategies is intended to educate visitors about the Objects themselves, their relationship to other Objects and within the context of the museum in which they are housed, by employing their powers within a convivial and vibrant spirit of competition.

Please submit a CV (maximum of two sides) and a Cover Letter (maximum one side) both tailored to the role. 
 
Preferred start date: 20th January 2025
 
Expected end date: 31st July 2025
 
Weekly hours: 6-8 hours per week, up to 70 hours in total
 
Location: Remotely (in the UK) and at the premises of an external employer

Job Description

  • To support development of the gameplay mechanics by working with local gaming societies to test and evaluate a range of options and contribute any other ideas.
  • To assist in testing the Lancaster Museums Trading Card Game among the 10-16 years old target demographic, by working alongside Escape 2 Make, a youth charity collaborating with FOLCM, during their regular workshop sessions at Lancaster City Museum.
  • To work alongside the Project Design Manager and Artistic Director to refine the design layout of the cards.
  • To familiarise themselves with the gameplay mechanics and artistic design of similar card game franchises that could inform the development of the Lancaster Museums Trading Card Game project.
  • To liaise with Lancaster City Museum staff to familiarise themselves with the ‘100 Objects’ and their inventories.
  • To assist in administration duties relating to the development of the Lancaster Museums Trading Card Game project.
This internship will take place remotely and on site at Lancaster City Museum.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

  • A passion for competitive card games and a desire to gain experience supporting gameplay development.
  • Enthusiasm for working with museum collections.
  • Flexible and adaptable approach to working.
  • Relative ease of physical access to Lancaster City Museum.
  • Enthusiasm to contribute towards development of the project and a desire to acquire transferable skills through engagement with the project.

Desirable Criteria

  • Knowledge of competitive card games and their different gameplay mechanics.
Working in this role will help develop the following skills and experience:
 
  • Research
  • Teamwork
  • Verbal communication
  • Creativity
  • Flexibility
  • Collaboration
  • Curiosity
For any further information please contact Anne-Marie Mumford, Faculty Employability Officer at [email protected]
 
You are required to submit a cover letter to support your application. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.
 

Please note: Unless specified otherwise in the advert wording, this role is only open to individuals living in the UK.

Under the terms of this work, we endeavor to provide the advertised number of hours however, hours are not guaranteed and that work may cease if there is a fall in demand. 

Adverts that display a closing date should be treated as a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

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