Vacancy for Digital Archivist at Nyland

Digital Preservation Coalition; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization seeks an experienced digital archivist to manage and preserve an extensive collection of born-digital files. You will develop a digital preservation programme and work on curating archival digital assets, ensuring long-term accessibility and preservation of important documents. Ideal candidates will have a professional background in archives management and strong digital preservation expertise.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of appraising records for long-term value, especially born-digital collections.
• Experience with digital preservation architectures and systems.
• Specialist knowledge in collections management systems.

Responsibilities

• Appraise and arrange a collection of c. 70,000 born-digital files.
• Set up a digital preservation programme alongside the physical archives programme.
• Define policy for the archive and broader organisation.

Skills

Appraising records for long-term value

Curation of archival digital assets

Digital preservation best practices

Education

Professional qualification in Archives/Records Management

Tools

Axiell CALM

Epexio

Job description

Westminster, London, with occasional travel to East Sussex

£42k+ subject to experience

Fixed Term

Nyland is a single family office, supporting a family with their private affairs and personal projects, and supervising the management of their homes and staff. We are a small dynamic organisation and are looking for an experienced and motivated digital archivist to join us, working closely with our small archive and IT teams.

Your responsibilities will be:

to appraise and arrange a collection of c. 70,000 born-digital files. These were created by a family member from c. 1980 onwards using their own unique filing system and include business and personal correspondence.

to work with our archivist on setting up a digital preservation programme to work alongside our physical archives programme. This will cover both historic born-digital material on physical media and modern digitisations of paper archive material. Our goal is to ensure that we have the technological capability to preserve digital files and a Digital Asset Management System to verify, catalogue, store, and provide access to this material. This also includes defining a policy for the archive and for the wider organisation

You must have:

A professional qualification in Archives/Records Management or Digital Archives management, for Information Management and Digital Preservation (or similar)

Knowledge and experience of appraising records for long-term value, specifically working with born-digital collections

Specialist knowledge of good practice in the digital preservation of archives including documents, images, sound and moving images

Specialist knowledge of collections management systems, or archive repository systems – e.g. Axiell CALM and Epexio

Knowledge and experience in the curation of archival digital assets, including supervising the creation and transfer/migration of digital assets, cataloguing and metadata creation, and developing an ingest to digital repository workflow

Knowledge and experience of investigating the digital preservation architecture required to develop and implement a new digital preservation system, including needs appraisal and system selection

Application process:

Please send a CV (of no more than two A4 pages) and covering letter to [e-mail] by 5pm GMT on 10 June 2022. Initial interviews will be by video call the w/c 13 June 2022.

Schedule:

Closing date for applications – 10 June 2022

Start date – as soon as possible thereafter