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 2024. 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 £25,634 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).

Further information can be found on the Further Particulars by clicking the 'Apply' button above, along with the application and equal opportunities monitoring forms which should be returned to jobvacancies@trin.cam.ac.uk by 9am on Friday 19 April 2024. Interviews are expected to take place in person on 29 April.

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