Assistant Archivist

3 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE06 £29,619 - £34,308 per annum**

**Information Services Group / Library and University Collections/Heritage Collections**

**Full time: 35 hours per week**

**Fixed term contract: 6 months
We are looking for an Assistant Archivist to carry out specific collections management tasks on Scottish Studies collections for 6 months.

**The Opportunity**:
This post will undertake collection management tasks to consolidate some of the Scottish Studies collections, identifying uncatalogued and duplicate materials and sorting them for retention, cataloguing or disposal.

**Your skills and attributes for success**
- Experience of working in an archive, library or research environment
- Accurate and methodical approach to work
- Good IT skills for gathering data
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team

Click **here **for a copy of the full job description.

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews will be held w/c 30 January.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.



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