Digital Archive Assistant

3 weeks ago

Westminster, United Kingdom House of Lords Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 288179**Salary**:

- £26,750 - £29,325**Job grade**:

- Other- HL4**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term**Length of employment**:

- 1 year from 2 October 2023 to 30 September 2024 with the possibility of extension.**Business area**:

- Preservation & Access Team**Type of role**:

- Digital
- Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- WestminsterAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Background**

Based in the Preservation & Access Team, this post is an opportunity for a self-motivated individual with an interest in digital preservation to gain experience maintaining and developing our services in a modern and high-profile archive.

Preservation & Access (P&A) is one of four teams in the Parliamentary Archives, which is based within the House of Lords but jointly funded and a shared service with the House of Commons. The Parliamentary Archives provides innovative and expert information management, preservation, access, and outreach services enabling anyone in the world to use Parliament’s records, both now and in the future. We hold over 13km of physical records dating back to 1497, 4.7TB of born digital records and 22.1TB of digitised records.

This is a particularly exciting and interesting time to join the Parliamentary Archives. The Archives Relocation Programme (ARP) has agreed to relocate our collections and some associated services from our current home in the Palace of Westminster to The National Archives in Kew. The move of our physical collections and associated services is expected to take place by Summer 2025, with digital collections to follow.

Over the next year, the Digital Preservation team will work with Archives colleagues and ARP to ensure that Parliament’s digital collections are safeguarded throughout this move and will help to define Parliament’s requirements around access, preservation and transfer of digital records in the future.

**Job description**:
**Main objective**

The Digital Archives Assistant works with both digital and physical records, with a strong focus on preserving and adding to our significant digital collections. They are a core member of the team and once trained, work independently on a wide range of practical tasks. This role is also a training post, and you will have excellent learning opportunities across the Parliamentary Archives and the ability to direct your own development.

This post is not designed for applicants who have completed a postgraduate qualification in archives/information management or similar.

**Person specification**:
**Competencies**:
Essential
- ** Organisation and Prioritisation**: Ability to proactively manage one’s own workload, meet deadlines, and maintain a flexible and resilient approach to changing priorities.
- ** Problem-solving and accuracy**: Ability to use initiative whilst working with established best practice and guidelines, with a focus on accuracy and attention to detail.
- ** Communication skills**: Excellent written and oral communication skills, with a proven ability to explain complex and/or technical topics to diverse and non-specialist audiences.
- ** Digital literacy**: High level of digital literacy, with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and systems quickly.
- ** Interest in digital collections**: A proven interest in digital collections, and an awareness of how technology impacts the creation, management, and use of archives.
- ** Team working and Collaboration**: Ability to work inclusively and flexibly in a small but busy team to deliver high quality services and develop good working relationships with people from a wide variety of backgrounds.

**Benefits**:
**Why Join?**

In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including:

- 30 days’ annual leave (increasing to 35 days after first full leave year).
- Civil Service Pension scheme.
- Access to a range of flexible working options, where possible.
- A suite of learning and development opportunities.
- Interest free season ticket loan and bicycle loan.

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**Selection process details**:
**Next Steps**

More information on the role, the full list of duties/responsibilities and criteria can be found on the job description.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Medical**:
**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to w

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