Dear colleagues,

On behalf of Bristol Culture, I am pleased to advertise two vacancies based at Bristol Archives as part of the 'Unlocking Our Sound Heritage' project.

If you would like to have an informal discussion about these posts, please contact me on 0117 922 4235. 

Allie Dillon
City Archivist, Bristol Archives



Unlocking Our Sound Heritage, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, is led by the British Library in conjunction with national and regional partners across the UK. The project teams will digitally preserve almost half a million endangered sound recordings from across the UK and make 100,000 available online, raising the profile of sound archive collections in the process.

Bristol Culture is the hub for the South West of England. Over three years, we will digitise 5,000 physical sound items, from our own collections and other collections in the region. The digitised recordings will then be used in a creative programme of learning and engagement activities. We are one of 10 hubs recruiting project staff for this exciting project in Aberystwyth, Belfast, Brighton, Bristol, Glasgow, London, Leicester, Manchester, Newcastle and Norwich during 2018.

These are three-year, fixed term roles.


Project Manager 
Grade: BG11
Salary: £30,756 to £33,136

You'll lead on delivering all project activities and budgeting to agreed timescales, including managing project staff and volunteers as they digitise, catalogue, ingest, clear rights for and share archival audio recordings.

We're looking for someone with strong project management experience in an archive, library, museum, community heritage organisation, academic or other similar environment.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 7 August and interviews will be held on Tuesday 14 August.

For full details, see
https://jobs.bristol.gov.uk/vacancy/project-manager-unlocking-our-sound-heritage-361337.html



Project Cataloguer
Grade: BG9
Salary: £23,866 to £26,470

Working closely with other team members, your role will be to enable people to find and access digitised sound recordings, by creating catalogue records and other metadata, as well as overseeing day-to-day digital data workflows.

We are seeking someone with a relevant post-graduate qualification in Archives or Library/Information Science (or equivalent knowledge and understanding gained through experience) and experience of cataloguing to agreed standards.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 7 August and interviews will be held on Wednesday 15 August.

For full details, see
https://jobs.bristol.gov.uk/vacancy/project-cataloguer-unlocking-our-sound-heritage-361365.html



We'll also be advertising shortly for an Audio Digitisation Engineer - details will be available at http://jobs.bristol.gov.uk

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