Trainee Archivist

**Trainee Archivist**
**Manchester**

As a Barclays Trainee Archivist, you will have an excellent opportunity to combine work experience with distance learning from University of Dundee. Barclays will pay your academic fees for a post-graduate diploma in Archives and Records Management. You will work four days a week (0.8 FTE) in the office, and one day will be for study. You will work as part of the archive team to preserve and manage the records and provide information from them to Barclays colleagues and members of the public.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity - helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

**What will you be doing?**
- Appraising, accessioning, cataloguing and indexing archives (hard copy and digital) to agreed standards using Preservica, under the direction of an archivist
- Packaging and labelling archives to agreed standards, under the direction of an archi-vist
- Providing information from the archives to colleagues across the Barclays Group as di-rected by an archivist
- Providing information from the archives to members of the public in accordance with agreed access rules, as directed by an archivist, including hosting research visits
- Contributing to Group Archives’ management and planning processes
- Contributing towards the maintenance of the subsidiary company files for Barclays Corporate Secretariat, ensuring appropriate material is efficiently identified and re-trieved
- Helping volunteers in tasks such as handling documents, palaeography, and inputting content to databases
- Assisting other members of the archive team as required

**What we’re looking for**:

- Good academic background with a 2:1 degree, or equivalent
- Experience of working in an archive, either paid or voluntary, or can demonstrate aninter-est in this area
- Great communicator, both verbally and in writing

**Skills that will help you in the role**:

- High level of confidence in using a range of IT systems
- Rigorous attention-to-detail, especially when performing repetitive tasks
- Ability to prioritise a varied workload

**Where will you be working?**
Our archives are based in Wythenshawe, south Manchester, with quick and easy access into the city centre via the Metrolink tram system. The site enjoys excellent road links and secure free parking, and the staff benefit from spacious office accommodation with dedicated desks, and additional flexible workspaces.

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