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Project Officer, Sutherland Papers Project

Summary:

This post is a key part of the Sutherland Papers Project Team. The team is 
working to make this archive collection, recently saved for Staffordshire 
and the Nation, more accessible to the public. You will play a dual role 
to supervise and co-ordinate volunteer activity within the project and to 
provide transcriptions of documents which support the online 
interpretation of one of the most outstanding archive collections in the 
UK.

Volunteers will be providing indexes to documents to help family 
historians to find information about the Sutherland Papers more easily. 
They will also be providing some transcripts of documents to help to 
interpret the collection for a wide range of audiences. Your role will be 
to supervise this volunteer activity, check the accuracy of transcription 
work and ensure that all output is consistently presented to the web 
content team. You will also be required to support the project through the 
production of accurate transcriptions of selected documents yourself.

We are looking for an excellent team worker with good organisational, 
communication and IT skills and preferably some experience in the 
voluntary sector.  You will also need to be able to demonstrate to us a 
familiarity with 16th and 17th century handwriting.

We believe the post to be suitable for someone looking for experience of 
archive work prior to undertaking the archive qualification.

The Sutherland Papers Project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Check under the 
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, 1974.

Salary: £14,854 - £15,825 (job evaluation pending)

Scale: 2/ 3

Closing date: 28 September 2007

Location: Staffordshire Record Office, Eastgate Street, Stafford ST16 2LZ

Vacancy type: Fixed term contract to 31 August 2008

Job Category:  Archive Services