Westminster School is seeking to employ an Archive and Records Management Assistant (Graduate Trainee) from September 2013 on a full-time one year fixed term contract. Salary for the post will be £20,000 p.a.

 

Westminster School is a modern boarding and day School with origins tracing back to the medieval Benedictine Abbey at Westminster. The School survived the dissolution of the monasteries due to the intervention of Henry VIII and to the Royal patronage conferred by his daughter Elizabeth I when she granted the College its Royal Charter in 1560.  The School has throughout its history provided education for boys, and to this day remains predominantly a boys' School.  However girls were first admitted to the School in 1973 and today up to 60 girls join the 6th Form at 16+ for A Levels.  Westminster School comprises the Great School and the Under School, the latter being a Boys' Preparatory School from which most pupils enter the Great School after Common Entrance. The Great School presently numbers about 740 with half in the three years from 13+ Entry through to GCSE and half in the 6th Form and Remove studying for A-levels.

 

Westminster School is committed to developing its heritage collections which include records, rare books, works of art and artefacts and improving records management throughout the organisation. 

Throughout the period of the contract the post holder will receive training from their line manager, a qualified Archivist and Records Manager, to help equip them to apply for one of the recognised postgraduate archival courses or similar heritage sector qualification. 

 

For further information about the post or to apply please visit our website www.westminster.org.uk or e-mail [log in to unmask].  Closing date for applications 5pm Wednesday 24 July 2013.

 

Westminster School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

 

 

Elizabeth Wells

Archivist and Records Manager

 

Westminster School

Little Dean's Yard

London

SW1P 3PF

Tel: 020 7963 1110

 

Check out the Archive’s latest project: Edward Lear’s Grecian Travels http://edwardlear.westminster.org.uk/

 

Journal of a Westminster School Boy, Lawrence Tanner’s diary from 1908-1909, is now available online: http://tanner.westminster.org.uk/