Vacancy for Assistant Keeper (Collections) at University of Bristol

Digital Preservation Coalition; Bristol; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading university is offering a part-time role as an Assistant Keeper (Collections) in the Theatre Collection, focusing on collections management tasks like accessioning, cataloguing, and preservation. This fixed-term position allows you to work in a collaborative environment until July 2024, contributing to essential archival work.

Qualifications

• Involvement in collections management work.
• Ability to manage accession process and prepare digital material.
• Experience with cataloguing onto Calm.

Responsibilities

• Support Keepers and Director on archival tasks.
• Manage accessioning and cataloguing processes.
• Engage in preventative conservation.

Skills

Accessioning

Cataloguing

Preservation

Digital archives

Job description

• Vacancy for Assistant Keeper (Collections) at University of Bristol

Vacancy for Assistant Keeper (Collections) at University of Bristol

28 September 2023

Bristol, UK

Part-Time

The role

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Theatre Collection. This role will enable you to work alongside the core team across a wide range of collections-based activities, including accessioning, cataloguing, preservation, digital archives. This is a part time (0.5) fixed term post until 31st July 2024.

What will you be doing?

You will be involved in all aspects of Collections Management work. You will be providing support to the Keepers and Director on a range of archival tasks, from managing the accession process with the Keepers, to preparing digital material for ingest to Preservica, cataloguing onto Calm, and being involved in preventative conservation across the collections.

As a member of the small and busy core team you will be expected to work across all areas of the Theatre Collection’s activities.