School Archivist (Part Time)

International Schools Today; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 8,000 - 10,000; Part time

Job summary

Repton School is seeking a thoughtful Archivist to steward the School’s archives, ensuring history is preserved, understood and shared with care and integrity. The role involves safeguarding collections and making them accessible for scholarship and community engagement.

The archivist will interpret and share the School’s story with alumni, parents and staff, contributing to the School’s internal life and wider community connections.

Responsibilities

• Steward the School’s archives and ensure history is preserved, understood and shared with care and integrity.
• Manage archival collections to be well-organised, accessible and sensitively interpreted.
• Contribute to internal life of the School and its wider engagement with alumni, parents and the broader community.

Job description

Reporting to: Deputy Head (Academic) via the School Librarian.

Hours: To be discussed with the successful candidate. It is expected that this will be around 15 hours per week, during term time only.

Salary: Salary to be discussed at interview and will be dependant on experience

Repton School is seeking to appoint a thoughtful and meticulous Archivist to steward the School’s archives and ensure that its history is preserved, understood and shared with care and integrity. The archives at Repton represent not only a record of the School’s past, but a vital resource for scholarship, community engagement and the ongoing telling of its story.

This is a unique opportunity for an individual with a deep respect for history and a strong sense of professional responsibility to play a key role within the School. The successful candidate will ensure that the School’s archival collections are well managed, accessible and sensitively interpreted, contributing to both the internal life of the School and its wider engagement with alumni, parents and the broader community.