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Dear all Please find below details of a vacancy at West Sussex Record Office in Chichester. The deadline for applications is midnight on Friday 12 August 2016. Searchroom Assistant Salary £16,481 - £17,169 per annum Permanent, full time (Tuesday to Saturday) Based in Chichester Interview date: 21 September 2016 You will join our busy Searchroom team at West Sussex Record Office in Chichester, helping members of the public to access historical records dating back over 1,200 years. The duties include supervising the public and volunteers in the Searchroom, providing occasional help in Reception, carrying out administrative tasks, and dealing with face-to-face, telephone, postal and e-mail enquiries. You will also be responsible for retrieving documents from the strongrooms and cataloguing archives under the direction of archivists. With a good standard of education, you will be computer literate with excellent communication skills. An interest in family history and in the county's history and archives would be an advantage. The post is full time (Tuesday to Saturday) with occasional evening work in order to help out at special events. This is an active role and some lifting will be required. For further details and to apply online, please visit https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/jobs/job-search/ (to search for the post, enter the reference SO00295). The post will not be advertised in ARC Recruitment. Many thanks Matthew Jones Assistant County Archivist West Sussex Record Office 3 Orchard Street Chichester PO19 1DD Tel: 01243 753602 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Correspondence address: West Sussex Record Office, County Hall, Chichester PO19 1RN Website: www.westsussex.gov.uk/ro Blog: www.westsussexrecordoffice.wordpress.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/WestSussexRO Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WestSussexRO Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra