Digital Imaging Assistant (Voices Through Time, The Story of Care)
Part-time (3 days per week), 18-month fixed term contract. Salary: £24,610 - £33,830 pa, pro rata (incl. all allowances)
Applications are invited from individuals to join the Digital Services team at London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) to contribute towards the work of the Voices Through Time, The Story of Care project by digitising original archives. LMA is the largest local government archive repository in the United Kingdom. Based in Clerkenwell and administered by the City of London, its holdings run to around 100km of documents from 1067 to the present. LMA holds local government and other records for the Greater London area and the City of London. These collections have been awarded designated status by the Museums Libraries and Archives Council. LMA is an Accredited Archive Service.
LMA is pleased to be working with Coram, the UK’s oldest children’s charity, which has received a grant of £1.26 million from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to enable the digitisation of a major portion of its Foundling Hospital archive dating back to its foundation in 1739 and detailing the lives of 25,000 children in its care.
Coram’s four-year project, Voices Through Time: The Story of Care, will secure access to fragile and vulnerable items in the archive held by London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) including Petition Letters from mothers seeking entry for their children and the Billet Books containing fabric tokens they left with their children. Many of these are currently unfit for consultation.
The project aims to digitise over 110,000 pages of documents which will be transcribed with the support of a global community of volunteers and made accessible on the Coram Story website along with stories and content from the projects created by care-experienced young people, and an online interactive timeline of care.
The post holder should have demonstrable experience of digitisation, working with digital cameras, scanners and other image capture devices and experience of working with archives or fragile materials.
Informal enquiries: Laurence Ward, Head of Digital Services 020 7332 3820
For more information on the London Metropolitan Archives, please visit: https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma
Closing Date: 12 noon on Monday 31 August 2020
Interviews: w/c 14 September 2020
To apply, please visit - https://jobs.cityoflondon.gov.uk/ | Alternatively, please contact 020 7332 3978 (24hr answerphone) quoting the reference number TC805. A minicom service for the hearing impaired is available on 020 7332 3732.
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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