Vacancy for Digital Archivist at Nyland

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 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