Archives Professional

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom BT Full time

Archives Professional

**Job Req ID**:21213**Posting Date**:8 Aug 2023**Function**:Brand and Marketing**Location**:120 Holborn, London, United Kingdom**Salary**:Competitive with great benefits**London**

**Hybrid working, 3 days office/2 remote.**

**12 month fixed term contract**
- BT Group is the global powerhouse behind EE, BT, Plusnet, and Openreach. Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.- We value diversity and celebrate difference. Join us and we’ll encourage you to be yourself, whatever your background. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’ Whichever brand you’re working for, we’re all playing for the same team. All sticking to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. These values guide us towards fulfilling our purpose.- From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. You won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development. You’ll make great friends, discover new talents, and feel part of something exhilarating. Four successful brands. One team, 100, 000 strong. Breath-taking scale. This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of millions of lives. Grab it.**Why this job matters**
The Archives Professional is a qualified Archivist role, helping to manage the sustainability and ongoing accessibility of BT’s historical collections - our corporate memory.
- BT’s Archives preserve and provide access to this rich heritage, with our pre-privatisation records being classed as public records under the Public Records Act. We have a statutory responsibility to preserve and make these records available, as well as a duty under our Heritage Policy.
- We are an accredited service by The National Archives, with our collections recognised by UNESCO and Arts Council England.
- This is a year’s fixed term post during a maternity leave, and will particularly support the team in its public researcher service, enquiries, budgets, and various pre-move project tasks in advance of moving the collection.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Delivering collections management activities, including appraisal, arrangement and cataloguing of archival records of BT Group and predecessors to internationally recognised standards
- Leading responses to enquiries from internal and external customers, in person or remotely (including in depth research for internal enquiries where appropriate), managing public research service, arranging shared supervision of external customers and academic partners
- Tracking BT Group Archives spend and any financial challenge
- Delivering collections projects relating to an upcoming archive move
- Supporting with digital preservation ingest tasks
- Providing digital acquisition support, including processing internal transfers, capturing descriptions in Calm and moving to our digital repository****:

- Administrative tasks as needed, including capturing statistics for annual reporting

**The skills and experience you'll need**
- A postgraduate diploma or Master's degree in archive administration and records management, or the successful completion of a recognised course of professional training
- Experience of working in an archives repository with demonstrable archive cataloguing skills to recognised professional standards
- Experience of working with digital collections
- Subject-matter knowledge of archival best practice, archival standards, digital preservation, and the interaction between information governance and archives
- Aptitude to think strategically, take initiative and work collaboratively with the team
- Ability to prioritise and take initiative
- Good communication skills - experience of giving presentations and promoting collections

**Preferred**:

- Knowledge and experience of the Axiell suite of CALM archives cataloguing software and Preservica digital preservation software
- Experience of working with born digital material, digital repositories and digital asset management systems
- Project management skills
- Preferably member of ARA (Archives & Records Association)

**What's in it for you? What are the benefits?**
At BT we entertain, educate and empower millions of people every single day. We're a brand build on connecting people - whether that's friends, family, businesses or communities. Working here, you'll receive an attractive salary and a range of competitive benefits, but - more than that - you'll be joining an ambitious organisation with a culture of togetherness, collaboration and inclusivity, that takes a genuine and proactive interest in your progress a

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