Archive Assistant

Pertemps Edinburgh Contracts; City of Edinburgh; Hybride; GBP 19 000 - 22 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

Pertemps Edinburgh Contracts seeks an Archive Assistant for a public sector client in Edinburgh. This part-time role runs Tue–Fri, 09:00–17:00, split between Edinburgh City Centre and Murrayburn.

The successful candidate will provide excellent customer service, ensure access to archive collections, preserve materials, respond to enquiries, prepare items for packaging and transfer, and carry out cataloguing.

Qualifications

• Strong customer service skills.
• Experience of working with Microsoft Office, in particular Excel.

Responsabilités

• Providing excellent customer service to customers.
• Ensuring customers have appropriate access to archive collections.
• Managing and preserving collections in accordance with processes.
• Responding to customer enquiries.
• Preparing archives to be packaged and moved between sites.
• Carrying out cataloguing activities.

Connaissances

Customer service

Office software

Outils

Microsoft Office

Description du poste

Pertemps Edinburgh Contracts seeks an Archive Assistant for a public sector client, working part time, Tuesday to Friday, 0900-1700, split between Edinburgh City Centre and the Murrayburn area. This temporary post runs for three months from 27th October 2026, paying £14.51 per hour. Duties include delivering strong customer service, ensuring appropriate access to collections, and preserving materials in line with set processes. The postholder answers enquiries, prepares items for packaging and transfer between sites, and carries out cataloguing.

Pertemps are recruiting for an Archive Assistant for our public sector client in Edinburgh.

Role - Archive Assistant

Location - split between Edinburgh City Centre and Murrayburn area of Edinburgh

Hours - Tuesday to Friday, 0900 - 1700

Pay rate - £14.51 per hour

Start date - Tuesday 27th October 2026

Duration - 3 months

The successful applicant will be:

• Providing excellent customer service to customers
• Ensuring customers have appropriate access to archive collections
• Managing and preserving collections in accordance with processes
• Responding to customer enquiries
• Preparing archives to be packaged and moved between sites
• Carrying out cataloguing activities
• Any other tasks as required

You should have:

• Strong customer service skills
• Experience of working with Microsoft Office, in particular Excel