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Dear All The Thames Festival Trust is looking for a Project Manager to join their team to work on an exciting new heritage project called The Barking Stink. The Project Manager for The Barking Stink will work with Director, Adrian Evans, and will be responsible for all elements of the project’s administration and delivery, ensuring that the project meets its objectives and that it comes in on time and within budget. Historically, it has been common planning practice to locate the most foul–smelling industries downwind of the capital city and, for a hundred years or so, from the mid-nineteenth century, they gathered in ever greater numbers around Barking Creek. The Barking Stink focuses on Barking’s industrial heritage from 1850 to 2000. We will create a ‘scented history’ through archive research, recording oral history testaments, generating short animated films and exhibitions in the public realm, which will be promoted as part of Totally Thames 2019, our annual season of events bringing the River Thames in London to life throughout September. Barking and Dagenham Archives will act as the Heritage Partner Archive on the project hosting volunteer groups led by the Project Manager and providing guidance on archival research for the project. The Thames Festival Trust is an arts organisation which delivers festivals, stand-alone commissions, river-based events, heritage projects and education programmes. See their website for more details of how to apply: https://thamesfestivaltrust.org/news/2019/we-are-looking-for-a-project-manager-to-lead-a-new-heritage-project Closing date: Friday 15th February Please direct all enquiries to the Thames Festival Trust. Kind regards Karen Karen Rushton | Borough Archivist | Heritage Services Archives & Local Studies | Valence House Museum | Becontree Avenue | Dagenham | RM8 3HT Phone: 020 8227 5221 | [log in to unmask] www.facebook.com/valencehouse | Twitter: @valencehouse | www.valencehousecollections.co.uk 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