Between 2015 and 2017, with support from Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund and numerous trusts and individuals the Saving Southbank Centre’s 60’s Buildings Project will restore the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery.  As part of this project Heritage Lottery Fund are supporting Southbank Centre to organise its amazing archive collections, making them accessible to the public for the first time.

The project will transform Southbank Centre’s public heritage programming and archive management, creating a viable model for future activities. Material from the newly accessible archive will be the engine for a pioneering programme of volunteering, participation and skills development work.

We are now looking for a recently qualified archive professional to play a key part in delivering this pioneering project, which will reshape archive and heritage activity at London’s leading arts centre. The role offers the chance to gain quality experience putting archival knowledge into practice, balancing collections management and preservation activity with a flexible, creative and innovative approach and a strong emphasis on public engagement and participation.  

The postholder will be required to work alongside the Southbank Centre Archivist to ensure the collection management, catalogue development and digitisation targets within the Saving Southbank Centre’s 60’s Buildings Project Activity Plan are delivered. They will be required to carry out a work programme of arrangement, description, preservation and digitisation tasks to required national standards.

We need someone with a relevant postgraduate qualification or with equivalent experience. This role will require the postholder to work with and manage volunteers, so experience of this is also important. Experience of using cataloguing software and a working knowledge of ISAD(G) standard for archival description is also important.  

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