DIGITISATION JOBS

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This is an exciting opportunity to join a team on a three-year project funded by Wellcome to investigate morbidity, mortality and occupational health in the Victorian and Edwardian Post Office. You will oversee the digitisation, inputting and georeferencing of approximately 30,000 individual pension records, providing advice to volunteers involved in the project, and providing quality assurance. You will be an important part of a team of eight, including the academic leads and PhD students, together with volunteers from The Postal Museum and elsewhere. You will contribute to delivering the research outcomes in a timely manner and to an excellent standard, and will be involved in research, analysis, dissemination and writing up of research.

The Person

You will hold a doctorate in a relevant discipline, including but not confined to medical history, history, historical geography, digital humanities, social sciences and health sciences. You will be experienced in working with quantitative historical or geospatial data, preferably relating to health or epidemiology. You will bring with you knowledge of geographical information systems, databases, statistical software, markup and coding languages. You will exhibit excellent archival and project management skills and will be an expert oral and written communicator.

The Faculty

There are few faculties across the UK university landscape as varied in their scope as the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing at Kingston University. We teach and research across a wide range of subjects, allowing for real cross-discipline innovation and creativity. 

Our lecturers are experts – working at the forefront of their fields and actively engaged in research so they can bring advanced knowledge to their teaching. Our state-of-the-art facilities include specialist laboratories, a public outreach centre, a specialist virtual reality centre, a rocket lab, scene-of-crime house, flight simulators and a Learjet. For future scientists and engineers, this combines to create the ultimate real-life space for practical learning. For academic professionals, this all adds up to a truly vibrant, exciting environment in one of the largest and most diverse STEM faculties in the sector.

Further information

This is a full-time position, fixed term for 3 years with a starting salary of £39,343 per annum.

Interviews are expected to be held on Tuesday 28th April 2020. 

For informal enquiries please contact Dr Douglas Brown - Senior Lecturer.

Kingston University values the diversity of its student and staff body. We are committed to providing a fully inclusive environment to ensure consistent and holistic support for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors. We recognise our duty under the Equality Act 2010 to prevent discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between different people when carrying out their activities.

Candidates must be able to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. Where required, this may include entry clearance or continued leave to remain under the Points Based Immigration Scheme. 

To apply click on ‘Apply for this job’. If, for accessibility reasons, you need to apply in an alternative format, please email jobs@kingston.ac.uk or call the HR Shared Services team on 020 8417 3118.

What else you need to know

With experience of working with metadata for library and archive materials, you will be responsible for migrating metadata from the BL Sounds website to the Sound and Moving Image catalogue (SAMI), including manually creating and enhancing records, working with existing datasets to transform descriptive metadata to agreed standards, and submitting files for ingest. The post-holder will have good oral and written communication skills, and the ability to work well within a team.

In return we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent benefits.  Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes 20.9%. Another significant benefit the Library provides is the provision of a flexible working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.

More about the British Library

As one of the world’s great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation’s intellectual memory for the future. At the moment we have well over 150 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. We operate the world’s largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in the future.

For further information and to apply, please visit www.bl.uk/careers quoting vacancy ref: COL03266

Closing date: 31st March 2020

Interview date: TBC

Disability Confident

We are a Disability Confident employer, and make a commitment to recruit and support disabled people. We guarantee an interview for disabled candidates who meet the minimum (essential) requirements for a vacancy.

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