Assistant Archivist: Digital Preservation and Access

The opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to further your career in digital preservation at a world leading university.

As an Assistant Archivist at University of the Arts London (UAL) you will play a key role in contributing to the delivery of student-focused archives and museum services that support teaching and learning through the preservation of our digital collections.

Supported by the Digital Preservation and Access Manager, you will contribute to the programme to preserve and provide access to our extensive digital archives, museum and special collections. You will achieve this by:

• Preparing and uploading digital assets to the digital preservation system (Preservica)
• Retrieving and exporting relevant metadata from UAL’s archives, library and museum cataloguing systems
• Structuring assets and metadata in accordance with local guidance
• Publishing selected digital assets to the UAL Digital Collections user interface
• Contributing to online curated content to promote our digital collections

About you

We are looking for a well-organised and committed individual with a degree-level qualification in information sciences, digital humanities or computer sciences (or equivalent experience).

You will possess knowledge and experience of digital preservation practices and principles.

In addition to this, you will need previous experience of working with digital archive, library or museum collections, as well as demonstrable experience of working with digital preservation systems.

The ability to work well independently, as well as part of a team, is also essential.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2024 QS World University Rankings (for the sixth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

For further details and to apply please click the apply button.

Closing date: 1^st December 2024, 23:55.

Our culture

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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