Salary: £13,905 per annum for 24.6 hours per week and £9,270 per annum for 16.4 hours per week (pro rata to £23,175 per annum full time equivalent)
Location: London, UK Position type: One post is permanent and part time (24.6 hours per week), based in the Parliamentary Archives. Three of the posts are part time (2 x 24.6 hours per week and 1 x 16.4 hours per week) based on the Archives Accommodation Pack & Track Project and are fixed-term until December 2020 with the possibility of extension. Benefits include: membership of a pension scheme, six weeks annual holiday entitlement and assistance for childcare Closing Date: Sunday 4 March 2019 Interviews will be held week commencing 11 March 2019 The permanent post is an exciting opportunity to join a team preparing for change. The role focuses on Collection Care activities to support the Parliamentary Archives book and paper collections, with a focus on books. The initial emphasis of the role will be on gaining experience of a broad range of preservation activities, to prepare collections for handling during reader usage and digitisation, and exhibitions and outreach events. It will also include support for the Pack and Track Project until December 2020. The fixed term posts are an exciting opportunity to participate in work to prepare for an Archives relocation programme. Under the line management of the Pack and Track Project Manager, and with guidance from Conservators in the Archives’ Preservation & Access team, the post holders will work within a project timetable and with cataloguers, to ensure records are adequately packaged, identifiable and trackable. The emphasis of the activities will be on preservation requirements and readying collections for a move, rather than interventive conservation. The work will primarily involve the auditing, preservation packaging and cleaning of Acts of Parliament and surveying, measuring and packing other records, with some (limited according to time, priority and risk) interventive conservation treatments to ensure records are safe to move. All the posts involve computer work, extensive manual handling, use of ladders and work in the Victoria Tower (up to the 12th floor). The successful candidates will have the following skills/experience: - A qualification in an art or craft or conservation degree/diploma; or equivalent experience. - Some conservation skills or high-quality practical and creative hands-on experience with working on arts and crafts based materials - Ability to use your own initiative and also to work as part of a team on special projects or routine tasks, as well as being flexible and adaptable to changing needs as and when they arise - Willingness to learn and update knowledge and skills through research and training - Clear understanding of health and safety issues related to collection care, including COSHH - A practical and pragmatic approach to problem solving and time management - Intermediate computer skills in software packages including the Microsoft Office Suite - Ability to communicate effectively at all levels, to help advocate collections care to a wide range of people - Physically able to sustain periods of time lifting and carrying items and boxes, and work in a cold and sometimes dusty environment More information and details of how to apply can be found on the House of Lords jobs site: https://housesofparliament.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/appcentre-13/brand-3/xf-279e5accd478/candidate/so/pm/5/pl/18/opp/427-Collection-Care-Assistants-4-part-time-posts/en-GB Please note - The House of Lords (along with all government departments) has to comply with a Baseline Security Standard. The standard requires that we ascertain the identity of the applicant, their right to work in the UK (you must have normally resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 years out of the last 5 years), their employment or academic history over the last three years, and their address history over the last three years. In addition, applicants are required to give a reasonable account of any significant recent periods of time (more than six months) spent abroad. Applicants who have been unemployed or self-employed for over six months in the last three years (whose last three years’ employment/academic history are not covered by references) will be asked to provide further documentation to prove their history. Meagen Smith Collection Care Studio Manager [email protected] Parliamentary Archives, House of Lords, Westminster, London SW1A 0PW www.parliament.uk/archives ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
