Archive Engagement Officer

Role Responsibility

The Kent Archives and Local History Service are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative and skilled communicator to join our team as the Archive Engagement Officer, helping all Kentish communities and beyond, to engage with our archive collections through creative projects and collaborative external partnership working.

The post is based at the Kent History and Library Centre, with an expectation to travel around Kent when needed.  The Kent History and Library Centre is home to the Kent archives collection of documents, manuscript and printed books, maps and photographs relating to 1300 years of Kent’s history.  Kent Archives and Local History Service is an Accredited Archives Service and has Place of Deposit status for housing public records.

At Kent Archives we are committed to widen our reach and engage with diverse audiences.   The Archive Engagement Officer will work with original historical material from medieval to modern, to research and develop outreach programmes, deliver workshops both onsite and online, facilitate conferences and take the lead on identifying and writing grant applications.  

The successful candidate will develop, create and deliver inclusive and stimulating engagement programmes that encourage historical enquiry, creativity, and critical thinking whilst promoting the exploration and enjoyment of the Archive collections.  They will interpret information to meet specific needs for a range of visitors, schools and universities.

The role requires a qualified archivist or someone with equivalent experience of using archival material and historical sources to deliver high quality learning experiences. They will be an excellent communicator who can interact with people of all ages, needs and backgrounds.

If you love working with archives and people, get satisfaction from working to targets, and share our vision of making archival collections as accessible and beneficial to as many people as possible, please get in touch.

Kent County Council is one of the country’s biggest local authorities and provides a comprehensive package of benefits and employee support.

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This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Contact Details

Sarah Stanley 03000 414943 sarah.stanley@kent.gov.uk

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.