Film and Sound Archivist
| Posting date: | 21 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | £28,875 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 September 2024 |
| Location: | York, North Yorkshire, YO26 4XJ |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Science Museum Group |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | SMG02959_1724254294 |
Summary
Film and Sound Archivist
Do you have experience of handling, storing and documenting sound and film collections? Would you like the opportunity to document and process the sound and film material in the Science Museum Group collection?
About us
The Science Museum Group (SMG) archive and library collection contains around 7 million items and is of outstanding national and international significance. This is an exciting time for SMG's Archives and Libraries with our new strategy setting out how our collections will be the best in the world in our fields. We are committed to documenting our collections, making them available to more people than ever before and transforming customer service.
We are now recruiting for a Film and Sound Archivist on a fixed-term contract for 7 months. This role is based at the National Railway Museum in York, on a full-time basis working 35 hours per week.
About the role
As Film and Sound Archivist you will document and process our sound and film material, making catalogue descriptions available via Collections Online and recordings via our reading rooms in Bradford, London, Manchester and York. You will work closely with Collections, Research and Curatorial colleagues across SMG on the intellectual development of the collections and processing new acquisitions.
You will respond to archive research enquiries about the sound and film archives, whilst also contributing to promotion and communications about the archives, such as via social media. You will also be supporting the Group Archives Manager to supervise volunteers to perform routine tasks such as listing, indexing and repackaging.
About you
Joining us, you will have experience of working in an archival role and with archives collections. You will have experience in audiovisual digitisation and preservation, and/or time-based media conservation.
You will have good accuracy and attention to detail alongside experience of working on cataloguing projects, following current professional archives practice and standards, including creating authority files. Crucially, you will have good IT skills including using an archive management system and Microsoft 365.
Applying
View the Vacancy Information Pack listed under 'Attachments' on the vacancy listing on our website for more details about the role and the application process, or click 'Apply Online' to submit an application.
Don't feel you meet all of the criteria? At SMG, we are committed to building a workforce that is open for all, and welcome you to apply, even if your experience doesn't fit perfectly. With your transferable skills, you could be the right candidate for this, or other opportunities that we have.
What we offer
Joining us as an employee, you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a world-class museum group. We understand that work/life balance and wellbeing is crucial to our colleagues, so we offer the perks listed below, as well as support for things that happen in life such as parental and adoption leave, sickness, and career breaks.
- Support with personal and professional development
- 27 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
- Employee assistance programme
- Enhanced contributory pension
- Unmind App and other wellbeing support
- Interest-free loans
- Days Out discounts
- Health & Dental Insurance
Open for All is one of the Science Museum Group's five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to foster a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge, and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation, capable to continue to Inspire Futures.