Job details Job reference: 2025R000429 Date posted: 16/09/2025 Application closing date: 02/10/2025 Location: Corporate Headquarters, Cultra Salary: £33,542 - £34,231 Package: Generous terms & conditions, including access to a flexi-time scheme. Contractual hours: 37 Basis: Full time Job category/type: Collections Services Library & Archives - Archivist (Harland & Wolff) National Museums NI is a leading cultural institution and is responsible for ensuring that its significant collection is developed, cared for and accessible to the widest possible audience. Almost one million people enjoy our four museums each year, and through loans, research, community activity and digital programmes we engage a much wider audience than those who physically visit our museums. Our vision To celebrate who we are, telling the stories of our past, challenging our present, shaping our future. About the Project - The Harland & Wolff Ship Plan Archive: A major project has begun to catalogue the Harland & Wolff Ship Plans Archive held by National Museums NI, as a first step towards making the archive accessible to wider audiences and increasing awareness and appreciation of the scale and complexity of vessels built by this iconic company for well over a century, and illustrating their centrality to the industrial growth of Belfast. The Role of the Archivist: The National Archives' recent award of an 'Archives Revealed' grant will enable these archival collections to be fully catalogued in compliance with ISAD(G) and SPECTRUM collection management standards, and to be showcased to wider public audiences. The 'From Drawing Board to Slipway' project will employ a full-time Archivist for a fixed-term, to focus on the cataloguing of 700 archive boxes, to ensure structured, methodical access to its wealth of materials, and accordingly lay the groundwork for a long-term documentation initiative. To be considered for this role you will be redirected to and must complete the application process on our careers page. To start the process, click the Apply button below to Login/Register.