Records and Archives Officer - City Chambers - EDN30563
| Posting date: | 15 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £37,626.00 to £44,257.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 April 2025 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, EH1 1YJ |
| Company: | The City of Edinburgh Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | EDN30563 |
Summary
Job Description
Records and Archives Officer - fixed term until 31/03/2026
City Chambers
Salary: £37,626 - £44,257
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
Edinburgh has nearly 900 years of municipal and civic history in its city archives. Ensuring that such continuity is not lost is a major challenge. The Information Governance Unit within the City of Edinburgh Council is the team charged with preserving and providing access to this municipal and civic memory to a wide range of academic, citizen and internal users. To help us in this task, we are looking for a committed and enthusiastic individual to join us on a 9 month fixed term basis as a Records and Archives Officer.
You will be primarily engaged in helping to run our archives searchroom and answering archives and records management enquiries. However, you will also contribute to our first digital archives survey, a major collections move that will see the majority of our collections relocated to multiple different sites, and wider adoption of Microsoft 365 as the Council's core record keeping platform. Smaller projects such as accessioning and cataloguing collections, undertaking preservation assessments and reviewing record disposals will also be parts of your job.
You won’t do this alone. The 25+ strong multi-disciplinary Information Governance Unit works with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders from across the organisation and outside it – including the Scottish Government, regulators, statutory inquiries, and other public sector partners. As a team, we ensure the Council creates, manages, shares, and disposes of its information effectively and appropriately.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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