Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage archival processing and digitization projects, ensuring collections are appraised, arranged, and described according to international archival standards and internal service policies.
• Supervise the ingest of digital assets, ensuring metadata accuracy, completeness, integrity, and compliance with agreed descriptive and interoperability standards.
• Oversee data governance and audit archival systems regularly to ensure authenticity, discoverability, and regulatory compliance.
• Evaluate records scheduled for destruction and determine appropriate transfer of historically significant assets to the archive.
• Develop and maintain inventories, catalogues, finding aids, and digital surrogates to enhance access and control of archival collections.
• Process complex traditional and digital collections using archival and asset management systems, ensuring integration across platforms such as Preservica and Axiell.
• Provide research support for internal stakeholders and prepare talks, presentations, and exhibition materials to promote archival collections.
• Contribute to outreach initiatives and public engagement activities to expand audience awareness and promote archival services.
• Review and update archival policies, procedures, guidelines, and governance documentation to align with professional standards and organizational objectives.
• Mentor and guide archivists and paraprofessionals, fostering continuous improvement and adherence to best practices in archival management.