Westminster, London, with occasional travel to East Sussex
£42k+ subject to experience
Fixed Term
Nyland is a single family office, supporting a family with their private affairs and personal projects, and supervising the management of their homes and staff. We are a small dynamic organisation and are looking for an experienced and motivated digital archivist to join us, working closely with our small archive and IT teams.
Your responsibilities will be:
to appraise and arrange a collection of c. 70,000 born-digital files. These were created by a family member from c. 1980 onwards using their own unique filing system and include business and personal correspondence.
to work with our archivist on setting up a digital preservation programme to work alongside our physical archives programme. This will cover both historic born-digital material on physical media and modern digitisations of paper archive material. Our goal is to ensure that we have the technological capability to preserve digital files and a Digital Asset Management System to verify, catalogue, store, and provide access to this material. This also includes defining a policy for the archive and for the wider organisation
You must have:
A professional qualification in Archives/Records Management or Digital Archives management, for Information Management and Digital Preservation (or similar)
Knowledge and experience of appraising records for long-term value, specifically working with born-digital collections
Specialist knowledge of good practice in the digital preservation of archives including documents, images, sound and moving images
Specialist knowledge of collections management systems, or archive repository systems – e.g. Axiell CALM and Epexio
Knowledge and experience in the curation of archival digital assets, including supervising the creation and transfer/migration of digital assets, cataloguing and metadata creation, and developing an ingest to digital repository workflow
Knowledge and experience of investigating the digital preservation architecture required to develop and implement a new digital preservation system, including needs appraisal and system selection
Application process:
Please send a CV (of no more than two A4 pages) and covering letter to recruitment@nyland.org.uk by 5pm GMT on 10 June 2022. Initial interviews will be by video call the w/c 13 June 2022.
Schedule:
Closing date for applications – 10 June 2022
Start date – as soon as possible thereafter
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