Digital Archivist and Knowledge Manager
| Posting date: | 17 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £35,400 to £39,200 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 August 2024 |
| Location: | Glasgow |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 362246/1 |
Summary
The DKIM team facilitates the delivery of the Cabinet Office’s priorities and purpose through providing business critical information management services. The Cabinet Office creates some of the most important official records in government, including Prime Ministerial records, and the DKIM team plays a key role in preserving these for the future and for the purposes of democratic accountability.
The team is responsible for the department's Digital Archive Service which provides processes and capabilities for the search, acquisition, archiving, review and disposal of digital information so that the department can continue to comply with its legal obligations.
The post holder will report to the Lead Digital Archivist and work alongside digital archivists and records management specialists.
We are looking for a Digital Archivist and Knowledge Manager with experience of working in a Digital Knowledge and Information environment. This role sits in a team that provides knowledge management, archival, search and library services to the department’s business areas. A key part of the team’s function is to review information for value through regular processes of disposal and archiving information of historic interest or of value to the department’s corporate memory. You will need to be familiar with archival processes such as digital record acquisition and transfer, appraisal and disposal, cataloguing and search.
Some of this work is at the forefront of thinking about how to manage and organise digital records and archives, and you will need to develop strong relationships with colleagues across the department and the Government Knowledge and Information profession.
Responsibilities
- Delivering processes of acquisition, selection, cataloguing, storage and transfer of records as part of our Digital Archive Service;
- Providing e-discovery and search services;
- Reviewing and analysing information to identify digital records of long-term value;
- Assisting with systematic digital information disposal;
- Responding to Freedom of Information requests and other statutory information requests, including Public Inquiries, police investigations;
- Supporting and developing our shared Research and Library Service;
- Assisting with developing knowledge exploitation of the department’s corporate memory;
- Providing training, professional assistance and expertise to senior leaders and other internal teams;
- Working with the Cabinet Office Public Records and Archives team and The National Archives;
- Working with technical teams to assist in the delivery of services;
- Creating supporting documentation for any developed processes.