Senior Archivist

Aramco Overseas Company UK Ltd; Dhahran Compound; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global energy company is seeking a Senior Archivist to manage archival projects and digitization efforts. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in archival or library settings, familiarity with records management standards, and should preferably be fluent in Arabic. This position offers opportunities for leadership and collaboration within a high-performing team, located in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Benefits

Challenging projects

Investment in talent development

Competitive remuneration

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience working in an archive or library setting.
• Fluency in Arabic is preferred.
• Academy of Certified Archivist (ACA) certification.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects related to archival processing and collection digitization.
• Provide leadership and oversight to fellow archivists.
• Contribute to outreach activities to promote the archive.

Skills

Familiarity with archiving

Records management

Digitization processes

Metadata schema

Descriptive standards

Historical research

Education

Bachelor Degree in Library Science, Information Science, or Archives & Records Management

Advanced degree

Tools

Preservica

Axiell

Job description

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world's largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest Upstream carbon intensities of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco's value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations' spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom's vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Archivist to join the Aramco Archive & Records Center (AARC) team.

The AARC's mission is to collect, preserve, and make accessible the historic and contemporary activities of the company. This includes documentation in a variety of formats including: records, still images, maps, photography, and artifacts.

The Senior Archivist will help drive AARC toward leadership in the sector through embracing emerging technologies, implementing professional best practices demonstrated via accreditation, and fostering collaboration with peers.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage projects related to archival processing and collection digitization.
• Appraise, select, arrange, and describe both traditional and digital collections in accordance with service policies; procedures and targets; and current professional standards.
• Provide leadership and oversight to fellow archivists and paraprofessionals during the ingest of digital assets with accompanying metadata to agreed standards.
• Contribute to outreach activities and projects to promote and publicize the archive and our collection and develop new audiences.
• Undertake research to prepare talks, presentations, and display material to promote the archive and our collections. Perform research into collections on behalf of internal users and to support outreach.
• Supervise data quality, completeness, and integrity, that may have implications for discoverability and authenticity. Investigate and lead team in relevant actions to identify and remedy issues.
• Process complex collections, to international standards using the research data, archival collection, and asset management systems to ensure interoperability between systems and standards.
• Oversee information governance compliance on all AARC data systems and regularly audit and report to the line manager on key standards.
• Carry out a systematic review of all assets held by the Records Management Unit scheduled for destruction; Evaluate and transfer appropriate assets to the AARC.
• Create instruments of control and discovery such as inventories, catalogues, and other finding aids as well as digital surrogates, as appropriate, of archival assets to enter into the appropriate AARC systems using agreed-upon standards.
• Review all processes, procedures, policies, guidelines, General Instructions (GI), etc. that inform the current records management and archiving services, and update these in line with and in support of the AARC service.

Education & Experience Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Library Science, Information Science, or Archives & Records Management from an accredited university. Advanced degree is a plus.
• 10+ years' experience working in an archive or library setting.
• Familiarity with archiving, records management, digitization processes, metadata schema and descriptive standards is essential.
• Experience with Preservica and Axiell technologies.
• Fluency in Arabic is preferred.
• Academy of Certified Archivist (ACA) certification.
• Demonstrated historical research.
• Familiarity with the chemicals and energy industry.

Job Post Duration

Job posting start date: 07/01/2025

Job posting end date: 12/31/2025

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world's biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs - one of the largest in the world.

Country/Region: SA