Archives Manager

The Royal Household

Location: Windsor Castle

Salary band: £45,000 - £50,000 per annum, pro rata, plus benefits and a 15% employer-contribution pension scheme

Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week

About the role   

It's making the Victorian age accessible to the digital age

It’s finding new ways to push things forward, and it’s the satisfaction of caring for a truly unique collection. This is what makes working for the Royal Household exceptional.

The Royal Archives has a uniquely rich and engrossing history, containing manuscripts of the official and personal archives of the Sovereign and Members of the Royal Family spanning 250 years.

Your challenge will be to drive through change, leading and motivating your team to bring centuries of archives into the digital age.

Working to The Librarian & Assistant Keeper of The Queen's Archives, you'll deliver a range of transformational projects for the Royal Library and Royal Archives. Establishing an effective digital archive system, you'll ensure there's a consistent approach to both digital and analogue metadata.

You'll also implement long-term plans for the conservation and storage of the archives, overseeing the physical preservation, stewardship, access, service and security of all items.

The accessibility of the Royal Archives for both internal and external audiences will be a key part of your role. You’ll act as the main point of curatorial expertise, developing the cataloguing system and establishing a reference system that will enhance access for current and future researchers. Looking to expand educational opportunities for the Royal Archives, you'll develop external academic and commercial partnerships.

You’ll also drive broader online access and website development, as well as change projects relating to electronic working for the wider organisation.

And working to preserve these unique historical archives for future generations, will be your biggest reward.

About you   

With a degree in a related field and substantial experience in a library, archives or a similar environment, you’re the expert we need.

Your knowledge of historic archives and library management will make you a real asset to our team. You're also able to meet the challenges of digital preservation, archiving and security that come with working with historic and current archives.

With a strategic outlook, you'll be practiced at delivering and implementing digital archives strategies, including developing cataloguing, presentation and discovery tools, and will have experience of international archive and library cataloguing standards.

Your extensive project management experience, preferably based on PRINCE2 or APMP, and your experience of delivering change, has given you the ability to deliver major programmes of work, within strict timescales and to budget.

Your excellent people management skills mean you'll be confident leading the Archives team, developing and inspiring them to utilise new technologies whilst also delivering to the highest standards.

As a natural communicator and with a user-centric approach, you’re able to develop and manage excellent working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, and can bring about change through collaboration.

A working knowledge of one or more foreign languages, and a track record in publishing and speaking on archives policy and practice would be desirable, but is not essential.

In return you will be rewarded with a comprehensive benefits package, including 25 days holiday (exclusive of Bank Holidays), a 15% employer contribution pension scheme (with the option for flexibility - to increase contributions or draw down as salary), lunch provided, with on the job training and development, as well as a range of out of hours recreational facilities.

Closing Date: Wednesday 27th April 2016

For more information and to apply online, please visit: https://theroyalhousehold.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/appcentre-1/brand-2/xf-89683af45527/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/4/opp/1144-Archives-Manager/en-GB