Archive & Library Assistant (School of Scottish

2 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE04: £22,630 - £24,715 per annum, pro rata**

**Information Services Group, Heritage Collections (Access & Engagement), Library & University Collections**

**Open Ended Contract: Permanent**

**Part Time Contract: 21 hours per week
**The Opportunity**:
We are looking for a highly-motivated and customer-service driven individual to join the Research Services team. This role provides high-quality service to users of the collections, including staff, students, visiting academics, and independent researchers. The School of Scottish Studies Archive was established in 1951, at the University of Edinburgh, to collect, preserve, research, and publish material relating to the cultural traditions and folklore of Scotland. The extensive collections, including ethnological fieldwork undertaken by staff and students over the past seventy years, include a sound archive comprising some 33,000 recordings, a photographic archive containing thousands of images from the 1930s onwards, a small film and video collection and a manuscript archive.

The Research Services team manages, develops and delivers research, user and public access to the University of Edinburgh’s heritage collections. It consists of the Research Services Manager, the St Cecilia’s Hall Curator (who manages the Museum Assistants), the Research Services Supervisor (who manages the Archive & Library Assistants), a Senior Archive & Library Assistant, Virtual Access Assistant and a Modern Apprentice. Access to collections is facilitated in person and online through the Centre for Research Collections, the School of Scottish Studies Archive and New College Library. The team manages St Cecilia’s Hall Concert Room & Music Museum.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Front-line customer-service experience.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Comfortable working in a busy environment.
- Commitment to supporting Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in the workplace.
- Enthusiasm for a career in the heritage sector.

**Click to view 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 Wednesday 19th July.

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.



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