Three new exciting Transforming Archives Traineeship opportunities based at Hull History Centre, Rambert Archive and the UCL Institute of Education are now open for applications.
We’re looking for trainees with the potential to develop a new career in the archive sector – whether you’re looking for a change in direction or are just starting out in your career. If you can answer yes to one of the questions below then a Transforming Archives traineeship could be for you:
We want to build on your practical skills and experience in technology, languages or education and outreach work and show you the great opportunities that archives and their collections can offer.
Each year-long traineeship is unique, each host is looking for a different skill-set and is able to offer specialist training and work opportunities in one or more of our specialisms – digital preservation, digitisation, outreach and engagement, collection development or traditional skills (languages and palaeography). Our first three traineeships are being advertised today and a further ten traineeships will be available over the next few weeks.
You can find out more about the traineeships and hear first-hand from the first cohort of trainees through a series of blog posts. Hannah Rice, Transforming Archives trainee at Hull History Centre, has shared her thoughts about what she’s learned working and training within the sector in the first blog post of the series.
Transforming Archives is a collaborative project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund through its Skills for the Future programme, The National Archives, the Archives and Records Association, the Centre for Archive and Information Services at the University of Dundee and 13 host archive services across the country. We are currently recruiting for the second cohort of trainees and through the programme we are hoping to:
If you would like to find out more about the traineeship programme please get in touch.
Emma Stagg
Project Manager for Transforming Archives
+44 (0) 20 8876 3444 Ext. 2095 / 07900 608 313
The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU
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