Salary
£25,185 pro rata
Contractual hours
20
Basis
Part time
Region
Rotherham
Job category/type
Museums
Date posted
10/09/2025
Job reference
REQ21123
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Benefits
Directorate: Regeneration & Environment
Permanent, Part time, 20 hours per week
We are looking for a motivated and organised Archives and Local Studies Assistant to join our national accredited Rotherham Archives and Local Studies service. With excellent communication and customer service skills, our Archives and Local Studies Assistant will support the search room functions to provide archive material for users of the busy archive search room at Clifton Park Museum.
With a passion for archives and an eye for detail, Our Archives and Local Studies Assistant will use their excellent ICT skills to support customer enquiries, cataloguing projects and collection research.
The Archives and Local Studies Assistant will:
* Provide a comprehensive, high quality and effective service for all customers of archives and local studies search room
* Respond effectively to customer email enquiries and requests for information.
* Support the Archivist to enable public access to the archives collections through a variety of delivery mechanisms including digital programming, events and exhibitions.
* Undertake cataloguing projects as directed by the Archivist to increase access to collections.
For more information or to arrange an informal conversation about the role please contact Lisa Howarth, Museums, Arts and Heritage manager at: or It is intended that interviews will take place on w/c 20th October 2025 in person in Rotherham.
This post will have access to the Public Services Network, if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at the Basic level (unspent criminal convictions).
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. For further information, please visit our website.