Archivist

Job Band

Salary:
£25,000 to £34,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type:
Permanent 0.5EFT hours per week.

Location:
BBC North (Salford)

Job Application Requirements:

• CV
• Questionnaire with opportunity to detail your experience

Any offer of employment with the BBC will be conditional upon you having the right to work in the UK.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application.

There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to.

Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

Job Purpose

Archives Technology & Services (ATS) is a team of about 200 colleagues, based across the whole of the UK. We are responsible for the collection, storage and delivery of the BBC's content.

This involves providing digital media storage and media movement technology, file delivery tools and digital archive systems across the BBC.

From archive research, music library services, corporate records management and an extensive written archive service, as well as heritage artefacts.

It also includes the news and sport libraries who have more recently joined the department.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants.

Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Archivists provide high quality services to our users that present and showcase Archive content increasingly via digital delivery.

The role requires using search skills and emerging analytic tools to enable the curation of digital assets across multiple platforms.

Archivists work too with mostly non-digital collections delivering specialist services.

Working as part of a team, as well as independently, Archivists interact with a range of customers and user communities, both BBC and externally.

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

The successful candidate must have:

• Knowledge and understanding of current BBC News and Current Affairs output and awareness of how these will develop in the future,
• Demonstrable knowledge of news archiving systems and their application in managing news content,
• Interest in national and regional news output,
• Understanding of archive selection, metadata enhancement and awareness of rights issues,
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to work to tight deadlines.

Please note this role is located in Salford.

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