Archivist
Cornwall Council
Date: 14 hours ago
City: Redruth, England
Contract type: Full time
Job Description
The Service
We are recruiting for a professionally qualified archivist to work as part of the Archives and Cornish Studies team based at Kresen Kernow ( Kresen Kernow – A home for Cornwall's archives ), the archive centre for Cornwall. The collection includes the usual range of local authority archives, dating from the 12 th century to the present day, as well as an extensive Cornish studies library.
The Role
The archivist role includes a wide range of professional duties, from responding to customer enquiries, oversight of the reading room and strongroom security, to dealing with depositors, accessioning and cataloguing, and supporting our outreach programmes. The archivists work closely with other colleagues in the front-facing public service, as part of a small, friendly and highly motivated team.
This is a public and customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This position will be subject to a standard criminal record disclosure check.
Working Pattern
The role is 0.6 FTE (22.2 hours per week) and requires the ability to work mainly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays (the days Kresen Kernow is open to the public), along with some regular Saturdays (with time off in lieu for Saturdays).
What You’ll Need To Succeed
The successful candidate must have a specialist degree in archives and records (or an equivalent heritage or information sector qualification), with the ability to catalogue to ISAD(G) standards using archival cataloguing software, specifically CALM; excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills; good competence in IT and the ability to meet deadlines.
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role (attached below in this advert), also the questions to respond to in the supporting statement.
What You’ll Get In Return
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include
Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
The full role profile is attached here
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Tamsin Mallett or Deborah Tritton via [email protected]
Please can you answer the following questions in your supporting statement:
Please attach a supporting statement to your application (responding to the questions attached above), you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrate what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact [email protected] if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
About Us
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
The Service
We are recruiting for a professionally qualified archivist to work as part of the Archives and Cornish Studies team based at Kresen Kernow ( Kresen Kernow – A home for Cornwall's archives ), the archive centre for Cornwall. The collection includes the usual range of local authority archives, dating from the 12 th century to the present day, as well as an extensive Cornish studies library.
The Role
The archivist role includes a wide range of professional duties, from responding to customer enquiries, oversight of the reading room and strongroom security, to dealing with depositors, accessioning and cataloguing, and supporting our outreach programmes. The archivists work closely with other colleagues in the front-facing public service, as part of a small, friendly and highly motivated team.
This is a public and customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This position will be subject to a standard criminal record disclosure check.
Working Pattern
The role is 0.6 FTE (22.2 hours per week) and requires the ability to work mainly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays (the days Kresen Kernow is open to the public), along with some regular Saturdays (with time off in lieu for Saturdays).
What You’ll Need To Succeed
The successful candidate must have a specialist degree in archives and records (or an equivalent heritage or information sector qualification), with the ability to catalogue to ISAD(G) standards using archival cataloguing software, specifically CALM; excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills; good competence in IT and the ability to meet deadlines.
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role (attached below in this advert), also the questions to respond to in the supporting statement.
What You’ll Get In Return
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include
- a competitive salary.
- a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
- a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
- Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
The full role profile is attached here
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Tamsin Mallett or Deborah Tritton via [email protected]
Please can you answer the following questions in your supporting statement:
- Do you have a Postgraduate Diploma/MA in Archive Administration, or equivalent heritage or information sector qualification?
- Are you able to mainly work on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays (the days that Kresen Kernow is open to the public), and regular Saturdays on a rota basis (with time off in lieu for Saturdays worked)?
- Please describe the cataloguing systems and standards you are familiar with.
- Please give an example of a time when you have joined an existing team. Explain how you established yourself in the group in order to effectively contribute to the group’s aims or workload.
- The Archivist role includes responding to customer enquiries received by email and in person, supporting wider Kresen Kernow services and processing accessions to make them available to the public. Please give an example of when you’ve had to manage several work-strands simultaneously, how did you ensure everything was completed in a timely manner?
- The Kresen Kernow collection includes maps, volumes, letters, photographs, glass negatives and digital records, along with other formats. We are here to provide access to these collections. From your experience, what are the issues around finding, producing and facilitating access to items like this for use by customers?
- Please give an example of when you’ve had to use different communication methods to share information with different people and ensure everyone received the relevant data. Explain how your approach was successful.
Please attach a supporting statement to your application (responding to the questions attached above), you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrate what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact [email protected] if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
About Us
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
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