Archivist (Catalogue Data)

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

- 367440**Salary**:

- £31,178- per annum- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- TNA - Digital - Cataloguing, Taxonomy and Data**Type of role**:

- Digital
Other**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- London, London (region), TW9 4DUAbout the job

**Job summary**:
We are recruiting a professional Archivist based within the Cataloguing, Taxonomy and Data team at The National Archives.

This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled cataloguer with excellent palaeography skills and a passion for data and archives.

Join our team and get involved in all the cataloguing activities in one of the world’s leading national archives

**About us**:
Archives matter. Without records, we could not hold government to account, carry out pioneering research or learn from the past. The National Archives is the archive of UK Government and the courts. Our business strategy, Archives for Everyone, describes our vision to become an inclusive, entrepreneurial, and disruptive archive that harnesses emerging technology to reaffirm and transform our historic mission for the digital age.

The Cataloguing, Taxonomy and Data department’s role is to deliver the control, quality, currency and ongoing development of our catalogue records and the systems in which they reside. We specialise in manipulating and enhancing at scale the metadata which lies at the heart of activities across the organisation.

We are based in the beautiful surroundings of Kew, easily accessible by public transport, car and bike. Staff benefits include admission to a range of exhibitions at national museums and galleries; access to nearby Kew Gardens; on-site gym, therapists and wellbeing resources; restaurant, shop and staff bar. Our excellent Civil Service benefits package includes the opportunity to join the defined-benefit Civil Service Alpha Pension Scheme.

**About the role**:
You will be leading work on reducing The National Archives’ historic backlog of uncatalogued medieval and early modern records, collaborating with colleagues across The National Archives.

You will also contribute to the State of the Catalogue programme to address legacies of our transition from paper finding aids to digital catalogues, liaising with our records specialists.

You will provide significant support to the rest of the team and be able to contribute to our cataloguing activity more broadly.

**Job description**:

- Full job description attached (see below).**Person specification**:
We are looking for a skilled cataloguer with strong Excel skills. Some experience of working with medieval, early modern or legal records, including some knowledge of Latin, is essential.

You will be a team player but also able to work independently and to address competing priorities and meet deadlines.

This is a full-time post. However, requests for part-time working, flexible working and job share will be considered, taking into account at all times the operational needs of the department. A combination of onsite and home working is available. You should expect to spend at least 60% of your time working at our Kew site.

**How to apply**:
You will be asked to provide details of your work experience and write a personal statement. In your personal statement please explain, using examples, how you meet the essential criteria given below. You may draw on knowledge, skills, abilities, experience gained from paid work, domestic responsibilities, education, leisure interests and voluntary activities. Please note selection for interview will largely be based on the information you provide in this section.

SC-level Security Clearance or willingness to obtain SC clearance is mandatory for this role and requires that you have lived in the UK for the last 3 years. The length of required residency may depend on individual circumstances.

**Essential criteria**:

- Significant experience of cataloguing in an archival context, with thorough knowledge of descriptive standards and presentational requirements.
- Excellent IT skills, in particular experience of back office cataloguing systems (for example Calm or AtoM) and expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel for data management, coupled with a strong ability to look at information as data.
- Palaeography skills including the ability to read and decipher 14th-19th century handwriting and to transcribe basic information from legal Latin.
- Excellent problem-solving and organisational skills coupled with the ability to work to a high degree of accuracy, attention to detail and consistency.
- Excellent communication skills; a team player able to communicate directly with customers and colleagues across The National Archives.
- Able to work under