Vacancy for Digital Archive Officer at HES Archives

Vacancy for Digital Archive Officer at HES Archives

30 October 2023

Location: Edinburgh and the Lothians

Type: Fixed Term

Historic Environment Scotland (Àrainneachd Eachdraidheil Alba) is migrating hundreds of thousands of learning, educational, and cultural resources from our Scran technology platform to our main Archive management system and digital repository. This is a generational shift in how we manage these digital objects and will safeguard the material from over 200 collections across the country for the future.

The Digital Archive Officer will support the work of the HES Archives Digital Repository, which will include:

1. Assisting with the transfer, accessioning, appraisal, and cataloguing of born-digital and digitised archive material to our catalogue and digital preservation infrastructure.
2. Contributing to internal digital preservation research and development.
3. Supporting the co-ordination of external digitisation projects.