Project Archivist (Hong Kong Project)

The role

The role-holder will support the work of the Hong Kong History Centre and undertake a full range of professional archival responsibilities relating to the development and care of the Hong Kong Historical Archives. You will have a particular focus on the creation of detailed catalogues for complex mixed media archives relating to the history of Hong Kong, some of which may be written in Chinese.

You will work closely with another Project Archivist, the Digitisation Officer and Digital Archive Assistant to enable digital preservation of the born digital and digitised archives. Providing support to the wider team to ensure the archives can be made available for research, education and wider engagement activities.

You will be based in Special Collections (Library Services) and will work closely with the Special Collections team as well as the Hong Kong History Centre, which is a research centre encouraging and facilitating the study of the history of Hong Kong and its peoples, and outreach, engagement and international exchange and collaboration in the field.

What will you be doing?

• You will undertake a full range of collections management activities, including acquisition, appraisal, preservation, cataloguing and identification of material for digitisation and digital preservation
• Ensuring professional standards and ethics are complied with throughout all processes, including complying with information legislation and taking account of issues around sensitive material
• Line management of the Hong Kong Project Digitisation Officer and manage the digitisation workflow (working closely with digital archives colleagues), also liaise with rights holders and carry out due diligence for orphan works
• In liaison with the Hong Kong History Centre, you will establish protocols for management of and access to the Hong Kong Historical Archives and support research and public engagement activities

You should apply if

• You are an archivist with a strong interest in the history of Hong Kong, Chinese language proficiency and a keenness to work closely with an academic Research Centre to develop, care for and make accessible a new archive collection
• You are excited by the prospect of working with these archives, aware of their complexities and have an ability to understand and demonstrate care and sensitivity to the special nature of the unique and distinct materials relating to the history of Hong Kong
• You have demonstrable understanding and experience of principles and procedures relating to archival cataloguing, collections management and digital preservation
• You have a sound knowledge of legislation and frameworks relating to information and intellectual property

Additional information

This is an open ended position with fixed-funding until 31/08/2027.

For informal queries, please contact Nicky Sugar, Head of Special Collections, nicky.sugar@bristol.ac.uk

This advert will close at23:59 GMTon 28/01/2024. Interviews are anticipated to take place w/c 05/02/2024.

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