Digital Archivist

at  UK Hydrographic Office

JOB SUMMARY

The post holder will be joining an existing Archive team based at the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) in Taunton. The position requires the majority of time to be working from the Archive offices.
This is a new position which has been created primarily to implement, and later manage, a new digital archive which will help the UKHO move towards Archives Accreditation and become compliant with our statutory public record responsibilities. The post-holder will be solely responsible for advice in its specialist area of digital archives, and a key aspect of this role will be developing and delivering a digital catalogue of Archive holdings and a new digital archive of UKHO records. The post holder will be leading the accumulation and cataloguing of the digital collections within the Archive and be responsible for the correct descriptions of records and the placement within an on-line catalogue and digital repository. They will work alongside the existing Archivist whose main role is to work with the non-digital archive assets and the master on-line catalogue.
The post holder is responsible for managing, preserving, and organising digital materials such as electronic records, photographs, videos, and audio recordings according to established accredited standards. Their duties include developing and implementing strategies for long-term preservation and access of digital archives, organising digital collections and metadata, creating, and maintaining databases, managing digital storage systems, and advising users on how to access and use digital archives.
This person will hold a pivotal role within the UKHO Archive and interact with key stakeholders across the organisation.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Working with the Head of Archives to manage access/cataloguing/policies and development of the Digital collection.
• Responsible for managing, preserving, and organising all digital and physical materials such as paper and book documents, records, photographs, and similar materials according to established accredited standards.
• Working with staff, accessioning, retrieving, digitising and manual handling will be required.
• Supervising and providing advice and guidance to staff on archival operations, policies, and procedures
• Supporting Research, Conservation and Archive Teams in their work.
• Develop and implement strategies for long-term preservation and access the archives, organising collections and metadata, creating, and maintaining records, managing storage systems, and advising users on how to access and use archives.
• Maintain and improve the Archive indexes, catalogues, and reference material.
• List improvement. This includes holdings, indexes, and new datasets.
• Produce monthly reports as required and provide an annual analysis of trends.
• Support the development of a continual improvement culture and implementation of process changes as required

QUALIFICATIONS

Post-Graduate qualification in Archives and Records Management/Information Management / Archives Administration

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• How well you meet the person specification.
• Exerience of developing and implementing a digital catalogue of archive records and managing a digital repository.

Benefits
Alongside your salary of £35,744, UK Hydrographic Office contributes £10,355 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
At the UK Hydrographic Office, it’s very important to us that our people feel valued.
We offer a huge range of benefits such as training and development, well-being support, flexible/ homeworking, a fantastic state of the art building, high spec equipment, and so much more.
See our attached Candidate Information Pack for more details.
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NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS:

SC – non reserved: This is a Ministry of Defence non-reserved post and although open to UK, British Commonwealth and European Economic Area nationals, successful applicants will require a security clearance (SC) and therefore need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 12 consecutive months within the last 5 years

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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