Gloucestershire County Council Information Management and Archives Service are very pleased to be recruiting for two Graduate Trainee posts for 2011/12. Please bring the advert to the attention of anyone not on the listserv who you think may be interested.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
(Chief Executive’s Support Unit)
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND ARCHIVES SERVICE
The Information Management and Archives Service includes a successful and dynamic Information Management Service team who lead on Freedom of Information and Data Protection for the authority, and run a busy corporate Records Centre, as well as Gloucestershire Archives (GA). GA has a national reputation as a centre of excellence in local authority archival practice and was recently ranked as one of the top ten archive services in the country by the National Archives. We have provided a graduate trainee placement for over ten years and our trainees have an excellent success rate of gaining places on an accredited professional training course. We are now recruiting for 2011/12 and are able to offer two graduate trainee posts:
GRADUATE TRAINEE (TWO POSTS)
£14,733-16,830
Two fixed term contracts to run for one year, starting August 2011
The posts are designed for graduates wishing to obtain pre-qualification experience before undertaking an accredited course of study for a Diploma or MA in Archives Administration or Records Management
You will divide your working week between the Collections Management team, (based at the historic archives in Alvin Street, Gloucester), and the Information Management Service, (based in Shire Hall, Gloucester). Whilst with the Collections Management team you will help to accession, catalogue, index and package a wide variety of archives, using CALM 2000 software. You will also be involved regularly in our busy searchroom where your role will include helping to produce documents for researchers, so a reasonable level of physical fitness is essential. Whilst with the Information Management Service you will assist with the running of the Record Centre, and gain an understanding of information management and FOI/DP issues. As part of a planned training programme, you will be given opportunities to gain experience in all other aspects of the service, including digital curation, collections care and learning & outreach.
The successful candidate will hold an honours degree and must show a genuine commitment to a career in archives and/or information management. Good keyboard skills, people skills, computer literacy and team-working are all essential to the post.
For further information contact Kate Maisey or Elizabeth Varley on 01452 425294/425098
Candidates are asked to apply online at www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/jobs . If you have difficulty accessing the information published online, please contact GCC Recruitment Team by telephone 01452-425255 (24 hr Voicemail) or e-mail [log in to unmask] quoting vacancy reference number 8/AJ/11/50.
The closing date for applications is 9 June 2011; interviews will be held on 1 July 2011.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS POST MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR THOSE WISHING TO QUALIFY BY LONG DISTANCE LEARNING DUE TO THE DURATION OF THE CONTRACT.
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