Inquiries Archivist

Government Recruitment Service; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency in Newcastle upon Tyne is seeking a Digital Archivist and Knowledge Manager to manage digital archives and provide knowledge management services. You will deliver processes for acquisition, cataloguing, and storage of records, respond to Freedom of Information requests, and support the library services. The ideal candidate should have experience in a digital information environment and be familiar with archival processes.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Digital Knowledge and Information environment.
• Familiarity with archival processes such as appraisal and disposal.
• Ability to develop strong relationships across teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver acquisition, selection, cataloguing, and storage processes.
• Provide e-discovery and search services.
• Review information to identify digital records of value.
• Assist with systematic digital information disposal.
• Respond to Freedom of Information and other statutory requests.
• Support the Research and Library Service.
• Provide training and professional assistance to teams.

Skills

Knowledge Management

Archival Processes

Cataloguing

Digital Record Acquisition

Analysis

Job description

We are looking for a Digital Archivist and Knowledge Manager with experience of working in a Digital Knowledge and Information environment. This role sits in a team that provides knowledge management, archival, search and library services to the department’s business areas. A key part of the team’s function is to review information for value through regular processes of disposal and archiving information of historic interest or of value to the department’s corporate memory. You will need to be familiar with archival processes such as digital record acquisition and transfer, appraisal and disposal, cataloguing and search.

Some of this work is at the forefront of thinking about how to manage and organise digital records and archives, and you will need to develop strong relationships with colleagues across the department and the Government Knowledge and Information profession.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll be doing:

• Delivering processes of acquisition, selection, cataloguing, storage and transfer of records as part of our Digital Archive Service;
• Providing e-discovery and search services;
• Reviewing and analysing information to identify digital records of long-term value;
• Assisting with systematic digital information disposal;
• Responding to Freedom of Information requests and other statutory information requests, including Public Inquiries, police investigations;
• Supporting and developing our shared Research and Library Service;
• Assisting with developing knowledge exploitation of the department’s corporate memory;
• Providing training, professional assistance and expertise to senior leaders and other internal teams;
• Working with the Cabinet Office Public Records and Archives team and The National Archives;
• Working with technical teams to assist in the delivery of services;
• Creating supporting documentation for any developed processes.