Archives and Records Manager

1 day ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Digital Preservation Coalition Full time
About the Job

This exciting opportunity at the Digital Preservation Coalition involves establishing digital and physical archival infrastructure, ensuring enhanced access to our rich archival collections. A competitive salary of £30,000 per annum is offered for this fixed-term role based in London.

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will work closely with the Strategic Projects Director to set up physical and digital archival infrastructure, including commissioning an open-source digital repository to house and organize collections.

The Project Archivist will participate in a BIRI-wide archive and digitization knowledge-sharing project, working as part of the CBRL UK team of four. A hybrid working policy requires working in the office at least two days per week, excluding periods of work travel.

  • Key Tasks
  • Developing and Implementing Archival Systems
    • Develop/adopt metadata schemas for cultural heritage-, environmental-, and social science-related collections, presented bilingually via an open-access digital archive website.
    • Collaborate with the Strategic Projects Director and external consultant on archival records management policy and digital/physical records preservation policy prior to beginning digitisation.
    • Contribute to setting multi-year digital humanities strategy for increasing discoverability/accessibility of CBRL archival collections.
  • Cataloguing and Digitisation
    • Produce accurate data according to internal national and international standards.
    • Identify sensitive data requiring further review accurately and contribute to development of policies guiding identification and decision-making.
    • Rehouse materials in preservation quality materials as necessary.
  • Promoting Archival Collections
    • Contribute social media content highlighting work on CBRL archival collections.
    • Write blog post about collections to be shared on CBRL's website and social media platforms.


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