Project Archivist - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

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Position Details
Academic Services

Location:
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £31,396 to £33,966 with potential progression once in post to £38,205

Grade: 6

Full Time, Fixed Term Contract up to July 2026

Closing date: 1st October 2023

Our offer to you
People are at the heart of what we are and do.

The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university.

We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.

We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential.

With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.

We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate.

We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.

Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements.

We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working.

In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme.

We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.

The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site.

On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.

Find out more about the benefits of working for the University of Birmingham

Background

Special Collections is a division of Library Services at the University of Birmingham and is responsible for the Cadbury Research Library, the University's Modern Records (Records Management) Service, and the Shakespeare Institute Library.

The Cadbury Research Library, Shakespeare Institute Library, and Barber Fine Art Library serves the teaching and research needs of members of the University of Birmingham, providing a valuable resource for undergraduate and research students.

The libraries have an international reputation and are also used by academics and scholars from around the world as well as members of the wider public.

The Project Archivist post is primarily based at the Cadbury Research Library. The post sits within the University of Birmingham's Special Collections Department team structure.

Role Summary

The Project Archivist (Stuart Hall) will be part of the Stuart Hall Archive Project team, responsible for cataloguing the Stuart Hall archive held by the University of Birmingham to appropriate standards using CALM and making it available to researchers through the online archive catalogue (CalmView).

The post holder will report to the University Archivist, working closely both with the project team and the Cadbury Research Library to make accessible the archive collections of the University.

The post holder will contribute to the development of an associated Digital Humanities project.

The post holder will also play a role in the development of outreach and engagement activities to promote the Stuart Hall archive and to develop the research and teaching potential of the archive to all users, with particular consideration for minoritized and marginalised communities, including the curation of exhibitions and the presentation of conference papers when appropriate.

The post holder will survey the archive, impose an agreed catalogue structure, catalogue materials, and assist in the identification of parts of the archive for digitisation.

The project will run until 31 July 2026 and by the end of that time it is intended that the archive will be fully catalogued.

The archive is a collection of significant size. Emphasis will be on combining speed of work with high quality cataloguing to an appropriate standard in line with international cataloguing guidelines

Main duties

Collection Management:

To devise a workable cataloguing structure and catalogue all materials within the Stuart Hall archive in compliance with relevant cataloguing standards and/or liaising with colleagues