Salary: £20 per hour
Reports to: Project Manager & CEO
Duration: Fixed term (18 months)
Purpose of role
Lead the professional management, digitisation, cataloguing and long-term preservation of the Baripen Roma Archive, ensuring compliance with archival standards and NLHF digital and ethical requirements.
Key responsibilities
- Develop an archival preservation plan and catalogue structure
- Oversee digitisation workflow, metadata standards and digital storage
- Implement open-access standards (with sensitive materials protocols)
- Handle accessioning, conservation, and secure storage of materials
- Train volunteers and Roma community trainees in archival methods
- Work with academic partners on research & interpretation
- Ensure data security, copyright compliance and accessibility
- Produce preservation policies, cataloguing guides, and archive finding aids
- Support exhibitions and public engagement where appropriate
Person specification
- Professional archive training or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of archival metadata standards (e.g., Dublin Core)
- Experience handling sensitive collections / oral history materials
- Understanding of digital preservation and ethics
- Excellent organisational and record-keeping skills
- Experience with community heritage projects
- Knowledge of Roma history or migration/holocaust collections
