Job Title: Archivist - Taking Actions for Animals: The History of the RSPCA Project
Duration: 18 month FTC - funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund
Employment status: Contractor
Closing date: Friday 29th March 2019
Interview date: W/c 8 April 2019 - HQ, Southwater
We're the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) and we've been here, looking out for animals, since 1824.
It's our vision to live in a world where all animals are respected and treated with compassion.
We’re recruiting an Archivist to support the delivery of the RSPCA’s Taking Actions for Animals: The History of the RSPCA project.
This project is an exciting and vital historical project to regenerate the Society’s extensive archives and develop new resources to support our strategic aims going forward.
With Heritage Lottery Fund support we will catalogue, digitise and utilise our collection enabling us to fully recognise and share our heritage.
Here’s some of the activities you’ll be doing:
Undertaking an archive assessment to help the RSPCA to understand the condition, gaps and significance of the collection, and identify and prioritise any items needing preservation works
Completing the cataloguing process, ensuring that all items in the collection are included
Scoping a digitisation programme in order to best utilise the archive collection
Providing strategic options / recommendations to the Senior Management at the RSPCA on the long-term development and care of the archive collection
Providing information governance support when required in areas such as records management, data protection and transparency
Developing robust policies (records management, disaster management, accessions, disposal, visitor access, reprographic services, copyright etc) using Archive Service Accreditation Standards as a framework, and also developing an understanding of Branch records and their relevance to the archive
Undertaking a scoping exercise with key RSPCA branches, across England with a focus on the North, to determine wider archive content
Identifying identify and maintaining data protection, confidentiality, copyright and intellectual property requirements when handling, using and reproducing archive items
Providing advice to the Senior Management at the RSPCA concerning the management of current records and the transfer of material to the RSPCA’s Archive
Training and upskilling archive volunteers, both new and existing, in best practice in archive management and use of cataloguing software
Delivering one external facing archive event, demonstrating the value and interest in the archive and developing reusable resources to replicate the activity
Working with the Project Volunteers to facilitate effective documentation, appropriate transcription and storage of oral history memories for the RSPCA’s Archive
Working with the Education Team, Fundraising Team, Communications Team and others as appropriate to develop materials, including resources for key stage 2-5, for use as part of remit of the RSPCA
Marketing and promoting the RSPCA Archive, managing internal and external enquiries in conjunction with the Head of Education and Communications Team to increase use and awareness
Liaising with external parties concerning the RSPCA’s deposited collections and the periodic transfer of materials
The closing date for applications is Friday 29th March 2019. Full details on the role and how to apply, along with a job description, are available here: https://www.rspca.org.uk/utilities/jobs/jobvacancies/details/-/articleName/HR_Archivist_23
If you would like more details or information, please contact:
Sam Francis
Resourcing Manager
0300 123 2059
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