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DIGITAL PRESERVATION PROJECT MANAGER
House of Lords Pay Band B1: £33,366-£41,347
Fixed Term Appointment to 31 March 2012, with the possibility of extension or
permanency
There is a vacancy for the position of Digital Preservation Project Manager in
the Parliamentary Archives, on a fixed term appointment to 31 March 2012,
with the possibility of extension or permanency.
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. In 2008 the Archives launched a Digital
Preservation Strategy and Roadmap which encompasses all of Parliament’s
digital assets requiring long-term preservation. We are now undertaking a
project to implement the Strategy and Roadmap.
The postholder will act as project manager, provide technical support to the
Assistant Clerk of the Records (Preservation & Access) who is leading this
work, and will be a major contributor to the successful implementation of the
Strategy and Roadmap. There is no staff management responsibility included
in this post, but the postholder will be expected to work closely with external
contractors and consultants as required.
We are looking for someone with strong project management skills, e.g.
PRINCE2; experience of gathering, analysing and specifying business
requirements for complex systems and/or services; understanding of digital
preservation principles and techniques, including up-to-date knowledge of
relevant standards; excellent planning, problem solving and time management
skills; excellent communication, presentation, influencing and team working
skills; a degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience. Hands-on
experience of digital preservation, digital repository management or a related
area, and experience of applying formal system and process modelling
techniques such as UML would be desirable.
Parliament’s Digital Preservation Strategy and Roadmap and other work so far
can be found at
www.parliament.uk/publications/archives/digitalpreservation.cfm. For an
informal discussion of the post or its requirements, contact Adrian Brown at
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Benefits include membership of a generous pension scheme, six weeks annual
holiday entitlement, an interest-free season ticket loan after two months’
satisfactory service, and a childcare voucher scheme.
For a full job specification and application pack, please email
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than Friday 27 November 2009.
The House of Lords is committed to equal opportunities.
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