Dear all
Please find below details of a vacancy at West Sussex Record Office in Chichester. The deadline for applications is Monday 20th June 2016.
Project Digitisation and Preservation Assistant
Salary £17,372 - £18,376 per annum
Temporary Contract for 12 months, full time
37 hours per week
Interview date: 5 July 2016
Based within the West Sussex Record Office in Chichester you will play a key role in the delivery of an exciting new partnership project funded by a Wellcome Trust Research Resources Award.
You will be responsible for preserving and packaging the archive of the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, including the working papers of the renowned surgeon, Archibald McIndoe, and the patient case-files of the pioneering plastic and reconstructive surgery carried out there, including those of the World War II airmen known as the Guinea Pig Club.
You will also be responsible for digitising the Guinea Pig Club case-files together with the Mollie Lentaigne medical drawings, currently held at East Grinstead Museum, which are being digitised as part of this project. You will work with the Project Archivist, who will be cataloguing the archive, and may be asked to assist with the dissemination of the project.
You will be self-motivated and well-organised, with a good standard of education. You will be computer literate with a good working knowledge of digitisation processes and an ability to pay close attention to detail. Some experience of preserving and packaging archives would be an advantage.
The post is full-time for 12 months for the duration of the project.
For further details and to apply online, please visit https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/jobs/job-search/ (to search for the post, enter the reference RES00140).
The post will also be advertised in ARC Recruitment.
Many thanks
Jenny Mason
Senior Archivist (Collections Management)
West Sussex Record Office
3 Orchard Street
Chichester
PO19 1DD
Tel: 01243 753602
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Correspondence address: West Sussex Record Office, County Hall, Chichester PO19 1RN
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