Please circulate details of the following job opportunity to anyone who might be interested. It
will also appear in the next edition of the Society of Archivists job circular.
Salary: £19,770 to £21,078 per annum
37 hours per week - Two year Fixed Term Contract to 31 October 2003
East Sussex Record Office has a vacancy for an archivist to manage our Unlocking the Past project,
financed by the New Opportunities Fund. The project is to use CALM2000 software to convert over
12,000 pages of finding-aids covering the records of official bodies; to improve those lists which
are of insufficient quality to be digitised; and to incorporate the digitised data on the Access to
Archives (A2A) website based at at our headquarters in Lewes, you will be responsible for the
project, and for the supervision of a part-time archivist and full-time word processor operator.
You will have several years' experience in an archive repository, and in particular a knowledge of
retro-conversion projects and CALM2000 software. You will be familiar with the Public Record Office
Access to Archives project, and will have used its website (www.a2a.pro.gov.uk/). You will probably
be a registered member of the Society of Archivists.
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Christopher Whittick, Senior Archivist, on
(01273) 482348.
For further information and an application pack, please contact Legal and Community Services
Personnel at 44 St Anne's Crescent, Lewes, BN7 1SQ, (01273) 481179 (24 hour ansaphone/fax).
Closing date: 17 September 2001
Elizabeth Hughes
County Archivist
01273 482356
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