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Archivist
2 weeks ago
**Salary**: £38,900
Closing date: Monday, 5 May 2025
Contract type: Permanent
Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library exploring health and human experience, where you can enjoy exhibitions, museum and library collections, public events, and a vibrant shop and café. We also publish books and online stories.
This is a great time to join Wellcome Collection as we embark on an exciting period of change. Wellcome Collection has recently introduced a new ten-year strategy, and this role will play an important part in bringing to life our vision of a world where everyone’s experience of health matters.
Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation that supports science to build a healthier future for everyone. Wellcome Trust plans to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.
We are looking for an Archivist to join our team of Archivists, Librarians and Collections Information Officers on a full-time, permanent basis.
Where in Wellcome will I be working?
You will be working as part of the Collections Information team which is part of the Collections & Digital department at Wellcome Collection, reporting to the Collections Information Lead (Cataloguing).
The Collections Information team creates and maintains a diverse range of descriptive, bibliographic and management information about Wellcome’s collections. We want to maximise access and use of our collections by taking an audience-focused approach whenever we create collections information.
What will I be doing?
As an Archivist you will be:
- Joining a multidisciplinary team that undertakes a mix of cataloguing, inventory, sensitivity review and metadata enhancement, working in partnership to ensure that access to the collections is always lawful, ethical, and responsible.- Appraising, sorting, arranging and cataloguing across a wide range of collections, both analogue and digital, with a focus on our archive and manuscript collections- Contributing to the development and documentation of collections information procedural guidelines- Contributing, developing and testing potential new approaches to cataloguing, metadata and catalogue record enhancements to improve accuracy, consistency, interoperability or accessibility of our collections information- Handling personal and other sensitive data in accordance with UK Data Protection legislation and Wellcome Collection policy and procedures, carrying out reviews of collections material as required.- Engaging with colleagues and external audiences to raise awareness of collections and professional practice
Is this job for me?
We are looking for somebody who has:
- Solid experience of archival collections management systems, particularly cataloguing and accessions-related functions- Ability to work flexibly across a wide range of formats and media, such as printed and visual resources, born digital materials, and moving image & sound- Experience of appraisal, sorting, arrangement and description of large archive collections-
- Working knowledge of UK legislative frameworks relating to collections information and access (including Data Protection and Copyright)- A clear focus on solutions and outcomes, and a willingness to experiment with new approaches, particularly around cataloguing, access, and diversity and inclusion.
Interview dates: Wednesday 21 Thursday 22 May 2025
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Our Hybrid Way of Working
We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best. We are currently working 3 days per week (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays) from our Euston Road offices (as part of our hybrid Ways of Working) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.
Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do
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