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Vacancy at the Parliamentary Archives, London: Collection Care Manager Location: London Position Type: Full time, permanent Salary: £36,500 per annum Closing Date: 14 October 2018 We are recruiting an experienced, dynamic and innovative Conservator, who will lead on managing and developing a team to deliver a conservation and preservation service to the Archives and its collections, ensuring the long-term preservation and accessibility of our collections. There are three teams in the Archives: Information & Records Management Service; Public Services & Outreach; and Preservation & Access. The Preservation & Access team brings together responsibility for preservation and conservation of records in all formats; their cataloguing, digitisation and online access. Collection Care is based in the Preservation & Access Team and the team undertake a range of conservation and preservation activities to help secure the stability of the Archive's physical collections and enable public access. They also work with other collections teams across Parliament, including the Libraries, Works of Art and Historic Furnishings. The team is also playing a key role in supporting the Archives Accommodation Programme (AAP) Pack & Track (PAT) Project team, which is working to eliminate our appraisal and cataloguing backlog, and to barcode and improve the packaging of all the records in the Victoria Tower. This work is necessary preparation for the decant of the Parliamentary Archives from the Palace ahead of the restoration work on the building. The successful candidate will lead on managing and developing the Archives' conservation and preservation function, ensuring the long-term preservation and accessibility of our collections. Activities should adhere to professional best practice and ethical standards and ensure collections security and health and safety needs are met. They will also act as the Archives' Business lead on the Pack & Track Project, with a focus on conservation and preservation, providing expertise and advice, representing and understanding the Archives' collections needs, including for procurement exercises. The role will be required to contribute to the Archives Accommodation Programme as it progresses too, in particular with regards studio spaces and archives storage and moves. This is an exciting time to join the team as projects and programmes such as the Archives Accommodation Programme, the Pack & Track project and various pre- Restoration and Renewal Facilities and works programmes are affecting and changing the Archives' work and priorities. The successful candidate will have a degree in conservation and/or equivalent experience, skills and knowledge, Professional Accreditation of Conservator-Restorers (PACR) status, proven expertise in a specific area of book or paper conservation, substantial experience of working with Library and Archive materials and proven ability to undertake complex conservation and preservation projects and research. They will also have demonstrable understanding of current Conservation and Collection Care best practice, a willingness to learn and update knowledge and skills through research and training and the ability to inclusively manage, motivate, train, coach and develop a team of staff. Further details and more information on how to apply can be found on the House of Lords jobs website https://houseoflordsjobs.engageats.co.uk/LoginV2.aspx For an informal chat, please contact Jennie Lynch +44 (0) 20 7219 1718 or at lynchj [at] parliament.uk<http://parliament.uk> The House of Lords is committed to Equal Opportunities. NO AGENCIES PLEASE UK Parliament Disclaimer: This e-mail is confidential to the intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and delete it from your system. Any unauthorised use, disclosure, or copying is not permitted. This e-mail has been checked for viruses, but no liability is accepted for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. This e-mail address is not secure, is not encrypted and should not be used for sensitive data. 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