Archivist

**Your Impact**:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

Location will be Knutsford with travel to Warrington

**About the Opportunity**

We are looking for an Archivist to join our team on a Fixed Term Contract to deliver an archiving solution for our long term records. The Archivist’s responsibilities include working with sensitive records to determine an innovative archiving solution to enable easy and effective record storage and retrieval. This includes:

- Documenting existing cataloguing/retrieval techniques - Thoroughly and accurately catalogue a variety of documents using established cataloguing standards and metadata schemas. Create detailed records that facilitate easy retrieval and identification of documents.
- Digitisation: Collaborate with ongoing digital archive projects to ensure alignment.
- Reference Services: Provide research assistance to internal staff. Assist users in locating and utilising documents effectively for their project needs.
- Continuous Improvement: Assess the existing techniques employed and advise/develop alternative techniques to preserve accessibility of records.

**Here’s What You’ll Need**:
As an Archivist you will be responsible for managing and preserving the document retrieval process for our existing records, ensuring their accessibility, database accuracy, and long-term preservation. Your expertise in archival principles, cataloguing techniques, and document management will support the short and long term objective of improving accessibility to records on behalf of your colleagues.
- Requirements and skills
- Proficiency in archival principles, cataloging standards, and metadata schemas.
- Proven work experience as an Archivist or similar role.
- Knowledge of various types of documents to determine the relevant importance of a record.
- Relevant training and/or certifications as an Archivist.
- Strong organizational skills with an exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective collaboration.

**Our Culture**

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s - find out more about our employee networks here.