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Project Archivist - Blythe House Project
Reference: MAR20180286
Expiry date: 2018-03-19 23:59:00.000
Location: Olympia, West Kensington
Salary: £26,940.00 - £32,380.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Group Personal Pension, Life Assurance Scheme, and other great benefits
Attachments: ProjectArchivist_FullTime_JDFeb18.pdf

Project Archivist – Blythe House Project (full time)

We are recruiting a Project Archivist (full time to end December 2021) to work on the V&A’s Blythe House Decant project.

The Museum is preparing for a major collections move from its current storage facility at Blythe House, West Kensington, to a new Collections and Research Centre. This role will manage a team of Project Assistants and work with our teams of curatorial and archival staff based at Blythe House, to prepare our internationally significant archival collections for the move.  The V&A Museum is an accredited archive service and our archives include the UK’s National Collection of Performing Arts held in the Department of Theatre and Performance, the V&A Archive and the Archive of Art and Design.

The role offers an excellent opportunity to work on a large scale collections move project and manage a team.  You will have excellent project management and communication skills, with an understanding of preservation and conservation issues and a commitment to improving access to and care of archival collections. 

 Please note that the V&A is unable to sponsor visa applications.

Closing date for applications: 19 March 2018

Interviews will be held on 4 April 2018