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ARCHIVIST (PRESERVATION & ACCESS), PARLIAMENTARY ARCHIVES
House of Lords Pay Band B1 (REF ROB103)
£33,366-£41,347
The Parliamentary Archives provides a records management and archives
service for both Houses of Parliament, and assists the compliance of the House
of Lords administration with Freedom of Information and Data Protection
legislation. It supports the corporate aims of Parliament in the areas of
effective information management, maintenance of heritage collections,
promoting public understanding of Parliament’s work, and sound corporate
governance and risk management. The three million records of Parliament,
dating from 1497 to the present day, occupy 6.5 miles of shelving in the
Victoria Tower repository in the Palace of Westminster.
This new post will manage the Archives’ cataloguing and accessioning
activities; help to devise, and be responsible for implementing, a digitisation
programme; and support our analogue collection care work, particularly in the
area of disaster planning and management of our outsourced conservation
contract.
You will have a relevant postgraduate qualification; substantial experience of
archival cataloguing, standards and methodologies; expertise in CALM v8;
excellent all-round IT skills; the ability to contribute to a digitisation strategy
and project-manage digitisation activities; hands-on experience of counter-
disaster planning and salvage; an understanding of preventive preservation
activities; staff management experience; and excellent communication and
presentation skills.
Benefits include membership of a generous pension scheme, six weeks annual
holiday entitlement and assistance for childcare.
For a full job specification and application pack, please email
[log in to unmask] quoting the reference above. Application
forms must be returned by 20 March 2009. Interviews are expected to be held
in the week beginning 30 March 2009.
The House of Lords is committed to equal opportunities.
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