Details:
Location:
SE10 9NFCategory:
AdministrationArchivist
Salary:
£26,027 per annumContract type:
Contract PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
02083128565Archives Assistant
About us
Royal Museums Greenwich is a collection of diverse historical sites. The sites are the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, and the Queen’s House. Each of these sites has a unique identity and a common purpose to serve our communities, through sharing our collections and expertise. We are a place to explore the sea, space, art and history, and our strategy ‘Charting Our Course’ puts people at the core of its success.
The Role
Reporting to the Archivist (Storage and Access), the Archives Assistant plays a significant role in supporting access to the collections held by the Caird Library and Archive. This includes over 2 million archives, charts, maps, manuscripts; and a library collection of 100,000 modern printed and rare books, periodicals, and electronic resources. These collections illustrate the history of exploration, empire, navigation, and maritime endeavour.
The role involves providing front-line customer service duties on a rota basis which includes staffing the Reading Room, undertaking document retrievals (including those from out-stores), and answering email, postal and telephone enquiries. Further responsibilities include organising and cataloguing archive collections to enable researcher access to the rich stories contained within our world class collections and taking a lead in assisting with one of four areas of collections responsibility as advised by your line manager.
The successful candidate will have a working knowledge of databases and of general ICT packages with the ability to communicate confidently and effectively with members of the public, academics, specialist groups and colleagues alike. They must demonstrate a strong commitment to customer care and high standards of service provision and a flexible approach and willingness to assist colleagues and users of the collections.
This is a full time, permanent role in Band 7 - Coordinators. Core hours of work will be 36 per week, 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday, with an additional hour to be worked as agreed upon with management, although due to the nature of the role, some flexibility may be required.
Salary: £26,027 per annum
Please note we are unable to sponsor visas.
Interviews are scheduled for Monday 20 October.
Benefits
We offer a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, a generous pension scheme, 22 days annual leave (rising to 25 days after 1 year) plus bank holidays, 30% discount in our cafés and shops, interest-free season ticket and bike loans, training opportunities and continuous performance management reviews to support personal and career development, NMDC reciprocal agreement for free admissions to other museums and galleries’ paid exhibitions, and an environment with flexible working options.
EDI
Diversity and inclusion are integral to our work at Royal Museums Greenwich, as we are a museum for everyone. We want to foster a spirit of inclusion, collaborative working, innovation, and valuing people as individuals whose lives have been shaped by different experiences. Therefore, we welcome applications from everyone.
We actively work with Disability Confident scheme and ask that you let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments you need or things you would like us to know during the interview process, which may include being provided with the interview questions in advance, requiring a step free interview space, that you are eye-contact avoidant, or having the interview questions in a written format or additional time in timed tests, interviews or other assessment activities.