Archives Assistant

Job title:
Archives Assistant

Directorate:
Economy and Community Development

Service:
Archives

Closing date:
16/03/2023 10:00

Job type/Hours:
Permanent | 37 Hour

Salary:
£20,812 - £21,189 a year

Pay Scale:
GS2

Location(s):
Caernarfon Record Offices

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 Francis on 01286 679 087

Interviews will be held on 05/04/2023

Application forms and further details available from, Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH
Tel: 01286 679076

CLOSING DATE: 10.00 AM, THURSDAY, 16/03/2023

**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**:
Experience of working with the public.

Experience of preparing written information and verbal information.

**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**:
**Essential**:
**Listening and Speaking - Intermediate Level**:
**Reading and Understanding - Intermediate Level**:
Understand everyday correspondence on familiar issues at work.Understand longer reports in Clear Welsh and be able to pick up the main points. (help may be required with the vocabulary).

**Writing - Intermediate Level**:
**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**:

- Assist researchers and be responsible for readers’ tickets
- Answer enquiries
- Assist with the work of accepting, cataloguing and indexing archival material
- Assist in guiding groups around the Record Office
- Assist the Archivist in preparing work programmes and exhibitions
- 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 worry or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused

**Special circumstances**:

- Required to work one late evening (until 7) once a month.