Archivist

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., 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.


• 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.
And 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.
  
  At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

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. And, 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. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
• 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