Archivist

Working Pattern

Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

This role might require you to be in the Archive more than two days per week depending on role requirements.

Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments, including hybrid working expectations, in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

What you’ll be doing

This is an opportunity to work across the full archive lifecycle, helping preserve and make accessible the history and heritage of Lloyds Banking Group.

You’ll join the Group Archives & Museum team, supporting the day‑to‑day management of our London archive collections.

This is a varied role combining collections management, digitisation and digital preservation, and researcher services, giving you the opportunity to work with both physical and digital records while supporting colleagues and researchers across the organisation and beyond.

Day to day, you’ll

• Appraise, accession and catalogue archive collections using our archives management systems.
• Ingest digital records into our digital preservation repository and support digitisation projects.
• Respond to historical enquiries and support visiting researchers.
• Undertake collections care and facilities management activities, including environmental monitoring and preservation tasks.
• Work with colleagues across the business and contribute to archive and museum projects as required.

This role offers the chance to apply professional archival skills across a broad range of activities within a small, supportive team.

• What we’re looking for
• Postgraduate qualification in Archives and Records Management (or equivalent).
• Experience appraising, cataloguing and documenting archive collections (including digital).
• Experience responding to research enquiries and supporting researchers.
• Knowledge of archival standards, professional practice and relevant legislation.
• Experience working with archive management systems.
• Strong communication, organisational and customer service skills.
• Any experience of these would be great
• Experience using Axiell Calm and/or Axiell Collections.
• Experience using Preservica.
• Experience supporting digitisation projects and quality assurance activities.
• Experience of collections care, environmental monitoring or archive store management.
• This is a place for you

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance‑related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
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