Graduate Trainee Archivist

(One-year fixed term contract, full-time)

Trinity College Library wishes to appoint an enthusiastic Graduate Trainee Archivist for one year from September 2025. The post offers an ideal opportunity to gain a wide range of experience in a busy academic library and archive before embarking on a career in archives and records management. The post involves a wide variety of work with both the College’s administrative archives along with extensive collections of personal papers. In addition, the trainee will have the opportunity to work on a special project.

The successful candidate will have or be expected to be awarded a good honours degree, have an interest in archival work as a career, have experience of archive, library or museum work and good IT skills together with excellent communication skills, ability to work on their own initiative as well as part of a team.

The salary is £26,275 per annum with further benefits, which include (subject to eligibility) a free meal when on duty, a subsidised gym and a generous defined contribution pension scheme. The role is full time (36 ¼ hours per week).

Applications should be sent to jobvacancies@trin.cam.ac.uk to arrive no later than 23:59 on Sunday 2 February 2025. Interviews are expected to be held in person on Thursday 13 February 2025.

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