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Medway Council’s Archives and Local Studies service is recruiting for an enthusiastic, outgoing and customer focused Archives and Local Studies Assistant to work as part of our team at the Medway Archives Centre. Our Archives team preserve, protect and promote the documentary evidence of Medway’s history and heritage, enabling access to priceless resources for residents, visitors and professional researchers.
The role
Our Archive and Local Studies Assistants contribute to the day-to-day running of the Archives Centre including supporting professional and amateur researchers from around the world, assisting with a range of outreach events for adults and children, retrieving and caring for our collections, as well as carrying out research and actively promoting available services to connect communities and individuals with Medway’s history and heritage.
About you
The successful candidate will have a passion for history and heritage, excellent teamworking and interpersonal skills and be adaptable, resilient and dedicated to helping all users engage with the heritage and history of Medway. Due to the requirement to carry out retrievals of archive materials, post holders must have a good level of physical fitness and be comfortable working at height.
In return we offer you
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Generous local government pension scheme package
- Access to wider training and development qualifications
- Flexible working scheme
- Travel plan discounts
- Car Benefit Scheme from Tusker
- Access to CAREFIRST advice & counselling service
- Employee discount scheme for national and local retailers
- The Government has introduced new ways of supporting parents with childcare costs.
We're committed to making Medway carbon neutral by 2050. We have developed an action plan to ensure we play our part in addressing the climate emergency. Our declaration fits into our Council Plan priority of making Medway a place to be proud of. The main outcome being a 'clean and green environment'. All Medway Council staff can access an additional day’s paid leave to undertake a volunteering activity which supports climate change.
Our organisation
Medway is a unitary authority in the South East of England, made up of the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham and more rural areas, including the Hoo Peninsula.
Situated in Kent in the South-East of England, the area has plenty of green spaces, excellent facilities and easy access to the national motorway and rail networks, facilitating superb transport links to London.
We provide all local Government services for a quarter of a million people, looking after education, environment, social care, housing, planning, business and much more - everything from frontline services such as rubbish collection and events like the Dickens Festival to work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure services in Medway run smoothly and cost effectively.
Working at Medway Council means that you get to be part of this journey working alongside talented, professional colleagues to drive forward change to transform the lives of our residents and the communities they live in.
Equal opportunities commitment statement
Medway Council is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All appropriately qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, family commitments, sexual orientation, age, HIV status, religious or political beliefs, social class or trade union activity or irrelevant spent conviction.
