Archives Assistant, part time, Dudley Archives.
GLL is looking for an Archive Assistant, to work 6 hours per week on Saturdays at the Archive Centre on Tipton Road, Dudley.
The service has an excellent reputation for user and community engagement among the local population. Your passion for local history, as well as community engagement, will be apparent as you help people do everything from discovering the history of their homes, to tracking their ancestry from our records and even helping with academic study and publications.
If you have the skills and ambition to join us as an Archives Assistant there's never been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than an Archives Assistant job, it's a career
What you will do
* Work as part of the team to ensure that every visitor to the Search Room is welcomed into a clean, safe and attractive environment with facilities that keep them wanting to return.
* Adapt to, and acknowledge, the diversity of our visitors and what they aim to get out of their visit
* Help visitors to discover our wide range of resources and services
* Demonstrate competence in the use of IT and archive management systems
* Support Archives’ activities
What you need:
* A heritage, library or research background, or experience in a customer-facing role
* Enthusiasm for helping others and devotion to customer care
* Good numeracy, literacy and communication skills
* The ability to demonstrate or explain genealogical sources to novice researchers
* Excellent administrative skills
* Knowledge of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and the processes involved with the security and operation of a public building
As a leader within the leisure industry we can also offer scope to progress your career, and job variety like nowhere else.
As a charitable social enterprise owned by its staff GLL has a great range of benefits for its employees:
1. A salary of £22,525 per annum (36 hours a week Pro rata)
2. A values driven organisation
3. Learning & development to support career development
4. Good pension schemes
5. Discounted gym membership for you and your partner
6. A 6 month fixed term permanent position of 18 hours per week
7. The opportunity to join the GLL Society and have a say on how we are run plus associated events
8. Exclusive discounts on our villas in Portugal
9. Exclusive discounts on our Ski chalets in Bulgaria
10. Career Pathways, professional development is just the start. To ensure your stay on top of your game we provide training with practical and theory elements too
11. Discounts across thousands of retailers (GLL Extras)
12. 25% off Red Letter Days
13. 25% off Buy a Gift
14. 20% off GLL spa experience treatments and associated products
15. Ride to work scheme
16. Free eye tests and discounted glasses