Digital Archives Assistant

Reference:
23-25706

Job title:
Digital Archives Assistant

Directorate:
Economy and Community Development

Service:
Archives

Closing date:
15/12/2023 10:00

Job type/Hours:
Temporary | 31/12/2024 | 37 Hour

Salary:
£22,737 - £23,114 a year

Pay Scale:
GS2

Location(s):
Caernarfon Record Offices

**Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this **Information Pack**

Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.

For further information about this post please contact Lynn Crowther Francis or Annwen Jones on (01286) 679 095

Interviews will be held on 20/12/2023

Application forms and further details available from, Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH

Tel: 01286 679076

**CLOSING DATE: 10.00 AM, 15/12/2023**

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**If you would like support to apply, Gwaith Gwynedd is available to help Gwynedd residents get into work**
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**Personal attributes**:
**Essential**:
Able to communicate clearly

Able to prioritise work and achieve targets

Able to work methodically.

Able to work individually and as part of a team.

**Desirable**:
**Qualifications and relevant training**:
**Essential**:
Education to A level standard

**Desirable**:
**Relevant experience**:
**Essential**:
**Desirable**:
Experience of working in an archive or library

**Skills and specialist knowledge**:
**Essential**:
Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Computer skills

**Desirable**:
**Language requirements**:
**Listening and Speaking - Higher**:
Able to follow a conversation or discussion through the medium of Welsh and English on a professional level and discuss general day to day topics in the field in order to present information and express opinions.

**Reading and Understanding - Higher**:
Able to understand standard written Welsh and English; both formal and informal.

**Writing - Higher**:
Present written information confidently by letter, more detailed and technical report formats, and respond to written requests conveying information, ideas and opinion in Welsh and English (help is available to check the work).

**Purpose of the post**:

- Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
- To assist in giving an effective service

**Responsibility for functions**:
**Main duties**:

- Use a scanner to digitize materials.
- Enter information about the digitized material.
- Save the images on the Council’s systems.
- Any other duties that correspond with directions given by the line manager
- Responsibility for self-development.
- Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council’s Health and Safety Policy.
- Operate within the Council’s policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
- Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council’s information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
- Commitment to reducing the Council’s carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council’s Carbon Footprint.
- Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
- Responsibility to report any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused.

**Special circumstances**: