Vacancy for Archives Professional at BT Group

Digital Preservation Coalition; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

BT Group is seeking an Archives Professional to manage archival records and support public researcher services in London. The role covers appraisal, arrangement, and cataloguing of BT Group and predecessor records to high standards, with lead on enquiries and an upcoming archive move.

The fixed-term position supports digital preservation ingestions and acquisition tasks, while assisting with budgets and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Delivering collections management activities, including appraisal, arrangement and cataloguing of archival records to recognised standards.
• Lead responses to enquiries from internal and external customers, manage public research service and supervise external partners.

Job description

• Vacancy for Archives Professional at BT Group

Vacancy for Archives Professional at BT Group

22 August 2023

London, UK

Fixed Term

Why this job matters

The Archives Professional is a qualified Archivist role, helping to manage the sustainability and ongoing accessibility of BT’s historical collections - our corporate memory.

BT’s Archives preserve and provide access to this rich heritage, with our pre-privatisation records being classed as public records under the Public Records Act. We have a statutory responsibility to preserve and make these records available, as well as a duty under our Heritage Policy.

We are an accredited service by The National Archives, with our collections recognised by UNESCO and Arts Council England.

This is a year’s fixed term post during a maternity leave, and will particularly support the team in its public researcher service, enquiries, budgets, and various pre-move project tasks in advance of moving the collection.

What you’ll be doing

Delivering collections management activities, including appraisal, arrangement and cataloguing of archival records of BT Group and predecessors to internationally recognised standards

Leading responses to enquiries from internal and external customers, in person or remotely (including in depth research for internal enquiries where appropriate), managing public research service, arranging shared supervision of external customers and academic partners

Tracking BT Group Archives spend and any financial challenge

Delivering collections projects relating to an upcoming archive move

Supporting with digital preservation ingest tasks

Providing digital acquisition support, including processing internal transfers, capturing descriptions in Calm and moving to our digital repository

Administrative tasks as needed, including capturing statistics for annual reporting