Job Description
Assistant Archivist role at RTÉ Archives involves digitisation programme work, daily archiving and preservation activities.
Job Description
RTÉ is Ireland's national public service media organisation. As a leader in Irish media, we provide comprehensive and free-to-air multi-media services to the public in Ireland and internationally. Our Archives house Ireland's largest audiovisual collection and are responsible for collecting, preserving, and making accessible the creative and documentary output of the national broadcaster.
The collections combine hundreds of thousands of hours of moving image and sound recordings, photographs, manuscripts, and administrative documents. Our Archives support RTÉ's multi-media services and are a rich resource for the wider creative media industry.
We work with cultural partners, heritage institutions, and support academic research and the educational sector. Access to our Archives, commercial or otherwise, fulfils a regulatory function.
We are currently working on several projects within the Archive Content Digitisation Programme. An opportunity has arisen for a versatile Assistant Archivist to work across different projects and daily Archiving and Preservation activities.
Responsibilities
- Deliver daily targets for pre and post digitisation activities, including hands-on picking, cleaning, labelling, packing, and manual handling of physical carriers.
- Continuously look for ways to improve the efficiency of all processes and put forward constructive suggestions.
- Work in other areas of the RTÉ Archives as may be required, and participate in the overall development of the Archives when needed.
The main activities will include, but are not limited to: diligent input of all data as required, ingest activities and quality checks of the digital content post digitisation, and regular and proactive reports on progress with all activities.