Applications are invited for the following job opportunity:

Rights Officer (Unlocking Our Sound Heritage) (fixed term for 2 years) Salary £34,230 - £38,730 pro rata including London Weighting (Depending on performance and experience)

London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) is seeking a knowledgeable Rights Officer to support its work as a regional hub for HLF project 'Unlocking Our Sound Heritage', led by the British Library.

This fixed-term (until May 2021), part-time role is based at LMA where you will lead on securing permissions for the public use of historic recordings from different London-based sound archives.

Unlocking Our Sound Heritage will digitally preserve almost half a million endangered sound recordings from across the UK and make 100,000 available online, transforming the visibility of sound archive collections in the process. LMA is the hub for London. Over three years, it will digitise 5,000 physical sound items, from its own collections, and from other collections in the London region. The digitised material will then be used as part of innovative learning and outreach activities. LMA is one of 10 hubs recruiting project staff in Aberystwyth, Belfast, Brighton, Bristol, Glasgow, London, Leicester, Manchester, Newcastle and Norwich during 2019.

The post holder will conduct rights clearance activities for the project including researching rights ownership of selected material, locating and sending permissions requests to selected rights holders, and coordinating with curators, the IP & Licensing Department, and the project team to ensure that the rights clearance process is recorded to a high standard to ensure proper due diligence and that audit trails are in place.  The aim of this post is to enable as many sound recordings as possible to be included for online publication.

Applicants will have a relevant degree-level qualification or equivalent. Demonstrable experience in rights clearance and a good understanding of copyright law as it relates to sound and audio recordings, a thorough knowledge of IPR issues and legislation and a good understanding of Data Protection and privacy issues. Informal enquiries to David Baldwin, Project Manager (Unlocking our Sound Heritage, London Hub) on 0207 332 3252 or [log in to unmask]

The post holder will work to the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage Project Manager at London Metropolitan Archives.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 12 April 2019. Interviews will be held on Wednesday 24 April 2019. 

To apply online visit www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/jobs. Alternatively, to request an application pack please contact the Corporate Recruitment Unit on 020 7332 3978 (24hr answerphone) or email: [log in to unmask] quoting the reference number (TC698). A minicom service for the hearing impaired is available on 020 7332 3179.

London Metropolitan Archives is provided by the City of London Corporation.

The City of London Corporation is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

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