Digital Researcher

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

- 375167**Salary**:

- £38,322 - £44,722- per annum- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Fixed term**Length of employment**:

- 6 month maternity cover**Business area**:

- TNA - Research and Collections - Research, Grants and Academic Engagement**Type of role**:

- Operational Research
Other**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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- London, London (region), TW9 4DUAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**About you**:
You have a passion for innovation and cross-disciplinary collaboration. With a good understanding of digital cultural heritage research, you have an enthusiasm for collaboration and actively seek new opportunities for engagement and research that address technology, collections and the communities that together produce and curate them.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who brings digital research experience to deliver innovative research and create new insights into cultural heritage collections, research and engagement activities. This role would suit a researcher with knowledge of digital humanities, digital scholarship, computer science, data science, or research development in a higher education or heritage context would be welcome.**Job description**:

- Full job description attached (see below).**Person specification**:
**About us**:
The National Archives (TNA) is the official archive of the UK government and for England and Wales, making available to the public a vast collection of historical records dating back over 1,000 years. TNA is also an Independent Research Organisation (IRO), meaning we are eligible to lead UKRI-funded research. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research into all aspects of our collections and activities is at the heart of what we do, as we become a digital archive by instinct and design and seek to generate new knowledge with our collections. We work with vast data collections and a range of national and international university, heritage and industry partners on areas including digital research in humanities and social sciences, computer science, archival and information science, and heritage science and conservation.

Our RGAE department is charged with conducting, enabling and promoting world-class research, often delivered in collaboration with external partners including experts from academia, heritage organisations, other government departments and industry. Digital research is a growing focus for us, experimenting with emerging technologies to develop tools for the exploration, investigation, remediation, and preservation of our collections and their re-use. We embrace opportunities to innovate with computational approaches in all aspects of our work in line with our Research Vision, our Digital Strategy and our corporate strategy, Archives for Everyone.

Our Research Vision centres around a desire to enable computational access to large-scale digital objects such as born-digital collections, maps, and datasets. This is a long-term aim which will encompass emerging technologies, cloud infrastructure, and opening our data through computational interfaces, and we are at the beginning of that journey. This role will focus on data, exploring methods for extracting content from our collections and representing it within cultural heritage data standards, such as IIIF.

Within the beautiful surroundings of Kew, a 10-minute walk from Underground and Overground stations. A combination of onsite and home working is available, and applicants should be able to regularly travel to our Kew site for a minimum of 60% of their work time. TNA boasts a collegial working environment and the excellent Civil Service benefits package. This includes flexible working, an on-site gym, wellbeing resources and an opportunity to join the Civil Service Pension Scheme. Putting people at the forefront of our organisation, we are committed to enabling professional development and training for all our colleagues. You would be joining a friendly and passionate team who welcome new and creative approaches and are dedicated to influencing the future of archives and research.

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.

**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 inf