Archives & Local History Research Advisor

Job Description

Based at Angus Archives, Arbroath Library, Hill Terrace, Arbroath.

Help us change lives in Angus by inspiring Healthy, Active and Creative lifestyle choices.

Our business is everything to do with people and that's why our staff are so important to our success.

You will work as an Archives & Local History Research Advisor. Your shift rota will include working Monday to Friday, including a Thursday late night and Saturday once per fortnight.

To do well in this role you will be able to demonstrate our key behaviours in customer service excellence, continuous improvement, engaged workforce, and innovative service.

You will need to hold an SCQF level 5 or above in Skills & Sources for Family & Local History in Scotland or a related subject. Experience of family and local history research and working with local history and archive collections is essential.

A friendly outgoing personality, the ability to work on your own initiative, work as part of a team and experience of working with the public in a customer-focussed environment are essential.

Are you adaptable and resilient, innovative and enthusiastic, ambitious and high performing, customer and results focused, hardworking and willing to learn? This could be the job for you to make a difference to your local community.

You'll find working with our customers is interesting and varied with never a dull moment. What's more, ANGUSalive offers a rewards package with generous holiday allowance, pension and discounted membership across all of our facilities.

If you can commit to working with us for the people of Angus and are interested in joining the team to become an ambassador for ANGUSalive we'd love to hear from you.

Please note interviews to be held - to be confirmed.

Requirements

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

The Individual

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities and care experienced young people. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.