Heritage Project Assistant @ Glasgow Zine Library
Heritage Project Assistant (Project) Part Time: 3 days per week £28,050 pro-rata (£16,830 per annum)
Fixed term freelance contract until March 2025
Job Purpose: Supporting the Heritage Project Manager to deliver our heritage project, “Made to Last: Connecting Communities Through Collection”.
Reporting to: Heritage Project Manager
Location: Glasgow Application deadline: 29th February 2024, 5:00pm
Proposed Interview dates: Week of 5th March, 2024
Role to begin: March 2024
Alternative applications: We welcome applications from those who may want to apply for this position in an alternative format, such as video or audio. If you wish to submit an alternative application, answer 'alternative application' in this form's mandatory fields. Please ensure your alternative application provides answers to each question on this form.
Job Description:
The Heritage Project Assistant will support the Heritage Project Manager on planning and delivering the project. This will include leading on record creation workshops, training organisations in inclusive cataloguing and zine collection management, digitising the collection, supporting and training volunteers to digitise the collection with our Outreach Coordinator, and developing activities for our heritage programme with our Programme Coordinator. The Heritage Project Manager and Assistant will update our heritage steering group on the project’s development on a quarterly basis.
GZL understands that access to the training and experience relevant to this role can be inaccessible, and as such we encourage people with varied experience to apply for this position. If you meet some but not all of the criteria and would like to have an informal chat about the position, please get in touch.
Key Responsibilities
Supporting the Heritage Project Manager to capture community heritage stories through record creation and zine-making workshops
Assisting with training external organisations in inclusive zine-collection management
Supporting zine collection acquisition and development
Assisting with, coordinating and attending collection-based community programming events and other related outreach events
Travelling to and communicating with local and national organisations as required for outreach and learning/development opportunities
Attending quarterly heritage steering committee meetings
Working alongside, and supporting training and coordination of volunteers in digitisation and outreach tasks
Respond to archive queries e.g. regarding zine donations, using the online catalogue
Acquiring and maintaining permissions for zines in the library collection
Supporting the zine commission process
Supporting compliance with Data Protection legislation
Working alongside the wider Glasgow Zine Library staff team to support the wider project
Skills and Experience
Experience developing archives or working in libraries is desirable but not essential
Experience with community outreach or in similar roles
Experience coordinating volunteers
An ability to identify content gaps in our collection
Experience of working with/training volunteers is desirable but not essential
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience in advocacy or representing an organisation externally
Confident using IT skills
A commitment to inclusivity and community-led approaches, experience in accessibility
An understanding of current approaches to developing archives, including digitisation
Awareness of basic preservation needs for the zines
The selected candidate will be required to undergo a PVG check
Person Specification
A passion for community heritage and archives/libraries
Knowledge of the archives/libraries and sector’s landscapes
Keen to learn how to develop archives and cataloguing our collection
Comfortable communicating needs within a small team and delegating tasks
A self-starter with the ability to work independently
Maintain and communicate the ethos and values of the organisation
Passionate about supporting marginalised peoples’ access to art and heritage, self-publishing, and DIY culture
Motivated to meet archives goals and seek out creative solutions
Excellent people skills, to enthusiastically, comfortably and confidently work with a Heritage Project Manager and volunteers
Motivated, with the skills to build and develop our archive, and associated policies and procedures
Alternative applications: We welcome applications from those who may want to apply for this position in an alternative format, such as video or audio. If you wish to submit an alternative application, answer 'alternative application' in the application form's mandatory fields. Please ensure your alternative application provides answers to each question on this form.
Application deadline: 29th February 2024, 5:00pm
Proposed Interview dates: Week of 5th March, 2024
Role to begin: March 2024
Please direct any enquiries to LD, our Director, at glasgowzinelibrary@gmail.com