Records Assistant
Job description
About the role:
Powys Archives and Information Management Records Assistant. To carry out administrative and search-room duties supporting the Archives Manager in providing a dynamic and progressive archives service and to assist in providing an efficient and effective records and information management service to Powys County Council departments.
About you:
•Excellent interpersonal & communication skills
•Problem solving skills
•Ability to organise, search and retrieve information
•Excellent ICT skills
•Ability to relate to customers and colleagues at all levels
•The role is physically demanding and will involve an element of lifting and carrying
(boxes and files) and the use of ladders.
What you will do:
•Assist with the records management destruction programme to ensure records
reaching their retention period are disposed of in accordance with adopted retention
schedules and recognised effective working practices.
•Respond to enquiries and file retrieval requests from client departments whether in
person, by telephone or by electronic means, in an accurate, timely and appropriate
manner.
•Provide direct assistance to users of the Archives Service in an efficient and customer
friendly way and supervise the public search-room ensuring high standards of customer
care.
•Produce documents from the strong-rooms for public use and ensure they are handled
in accordance with office procedures.
•Assist in the care and preservation of archive collections, maintaining good order in
the strong-rooms and assist with cataloguing of documents and collections
management as appropriate.
•Assist in the general management of the Archives and Information Management
Service by undertaking any other duties commensurate with the scope and grade of the
post.