Information and Engagement Assistant

1 month ago

Peebles, United Kingdom Live Borders Full time

Recruitment Pack for

**Information & Engagement Assistant**

**Hours**:
**17 hours per week**

**Location**:
**Peebles Library & Tweeddale Museum**

**Closing Date**:
**Sunday 26th May 2024 at 5pm**

**Job Ref No**:
**0808**

**Salary**:
**Grade 2 £12.40 - £12.82**

**£23,923.12 - £24,733.42**
- Post Title: Information and Engagement Assistant (temporary contract
- Collections Documentation Project).

Directorate: Managed Services

Reporting to: Assistant Curator/Assistant Librarian (Peebles)

Job Purpose:

- Deliver documentation/digitisation tasks to improve access to collections data and feed into Peebles library and museum collections engagement improvements (including Chambers Institution Levelling Up development project 2024-2026).
- Meet the need of local communities, and foster and encourage engagement with collections, data, history, creative activity, research and lifelong learning.
- Assist in delivery of project work in documentation and collections database development activities including support for Accreditation, support for a Levelling Up project
- and in relation to collections documentation, storage programmes and collections care within Peebles library and museum/Chambers Institution.
- Assisting with collections and research enquiries for the library and the museum including facilitating interaction with the museums, library and archives collections, databases, exhibitions and digital resources.
- Promote a positive, welcoming and helpful image of library and museum services to all service users including residents of and visitors to the Scottish Borders.

**Responsibilities**:

- Assist in day-to-day collections documentation project delivery tasks to develop access and participation within the library and museum, including maintaining the security of the Chambers Institute building (in particular the collections stores), security of information/databases and undertaking key holder duties as required.
- Carry out day-to-day library and museum documentation and collections care routines and processes to management direction.
- Provide guidance, assistance and support to enable service users to make best use of collections database facilities, digital resources and learning/research opportunities using the collections database.
- Work with service users and volunteers to develop their confidence and ability to use new technologies, data entry and accessioning, carry out independent research and develop information literacy and creative skills.
- Assist with organising, setting up and delivering data and accessioning information across a range of collections
- including contributing data and digitized images for Borders Collections Online database to raise the profile of collections within the Chambers Institution and enhance research resources for use by the wider community. (e.g., digital projects, inventories, stores audits and provision of collections data to inform display interpretation, image capturing, stores audits and interpretation for exhibitions.)
- Assist with organizing collections and loan items within Chambers Institution museum/library, and adjacent common good collections, on display or in stores.
- Assist in facilitating requests for images linked to the collections and retail orders/image requests for publication, to support income generation.
- In line with Accreditation, SPECTRUM, legal and operational guidelines, process collections data and accessions information, update donor /lender indices, maintain disposals records, entry and exit forms, loans documentation and accession registers.
- Assist with statistical gathering in relation to collections records and complete daily and weekly data entry input statistics to quantify cataloguing progress. Provide simple statistics to track progress on addressing backlogs in data entry towards developing the database and relevant content.
- Take personal responsibility for achieving high standards of collections care and storage, data security including meeting GDPR requirements and assist with maintaining standards of quality, required to meet Museums Accreditation and SPECTRUM data standards, in documentation. Use good judgement when dealing with queries personally and seek advice as appropriate from Service/line managers, curatorial team and the Heritage Hub regional archives team within Live Borders.
- Liaise on day to day basis with the Assistant Curator and Assistant Librarian for Peebles/Tweeddale (or other senior supervisory/project staff as may be designated by the Head of Museums Galleries & Archives Manager/Head of Libraries), regarding documentation, storage and collections care matters, health and safety, safe working practices and authorised use of facilities as per normal operating procedures. This work will involve manual handling, moving and lifting tasks relating to collections care and data

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