Job Opening Title: Processing Archivist, Institutional Archives
Institution/Organization Name: National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Job Location (City, State, Province, Country): New York, NY
Application Deadline: 5/01/2018
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Years of experience required: 3
Job Description (if URL to posting not available). Please include instructions for how to apply.: Processing Archivist, Institutional Archives
POSITION OVERVIEW
The National September 11 Memorial and Museum is seeking a Processing Archivist (PA) to lay the foundations for organizing and creating access to its Institutional Archives. The PA will work with senior staff to create a mission statement for the Institutional Archives and draft operational documents necessary for establishing its purpose, scope, and intake procedures.
The PA will implement the steps needed to build the archives, including surveying active records, inactive records, and other material deemed historically significant; interviewing knowledgeable staff about the Memorial and Museum’s institutional history; educating staff about the initiative; and developing a workflow for processing the archives.
The PA will report to the Vice President for Collections, work closely with various members of the Museum Collections Department, and engage with staff throughout the institution. This is a full-time, one-year term position, with the possibility of renewal.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
The PA will establish the institutional archives starting with an existing collection of records and artifacts retained by longtime employees of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, stored on-site and in several off-site facilities in New York and New Jersey. Through the assessment of these materials, interviews with knowledgeable staff, and a high-level appraisal of the range of physical and digital records generated by the institution, the Archivist will determine the scope and content of the archives.
The PA will recommend suitable archival management software and will work with appropriate staff to implement such software and other cataloguing tools. S/he will conduct preliminary processing of the institution’s archival records, including arrangement, description, and rehousing of archival material. S/he will draft finding aids as needed.
In collaboration with senior staff, the PA will generate a strategic plan for the institutional archives, including the creation of a mission statement and recommending protocols for making the institutional archives accessible to scholars and others.
The Archivist will begin the process of recommending procedures for the transfer of material to the institutional archives, including educating staff on which records have historical value and how and when to transfer this material. This effort will take into consideration legal records-retention procedures already established by the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.
QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS REQUIREMENT
• Minimum three years of full-time experience arranging and describing archival collections.
• Experience establishing an archive and/or working in a corporate archive preferred.
• Experience working with digital records preferred.
• Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited program or related degree required. Certification as a Registered Archivist (RA) or Records Manager (CRM) is acceptable.
• Demonstrated experience using collections management tools and knowledge of descriptive standards.
• Proficient in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Self-starter, takes initiative, and works well independently and collaboratively.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Interest in or general knowledge of the events of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993.
GENERAL INFORMATION
• This is a full-time, one-year term position, with the possibility of renewal.
• Occasional travel to the Museum’s off-site storage facilities in upstate New York and New Jersey is required.
• We offer a competitive salary and full benefits package.
HOW TO APPLY
• Include job title in the email subject field.
• Please indicate the location where job posting was seen.
• Send cover letter and resume, which must include your salary requirements, to careers@911memorial.org by May 1, 2018.
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation, Inc. is committed to workforce diversity. EEO.
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