Role Responsibility The Kent Archives and Local History Service has a vacancy for an Archivist in its Archive Service Officer team. The role includes a wide range of professional duties, from dealing with depositors, accessioning and cataloguing, to answering detailed research enquiries about the collections and participating in our outreach programmes. The Archive Service Officers work closely with the Archive Collections Assistants and Archive Collections Officers, as part of a small, friendly and highly motivated team. KALHS is based at the Kent History and Library Centre, Maidstone. It is an Accredited Archives Service and has Place of Deposit status for housing public records. The archival collections include Kent County Council, the dioceses of Rochester and Canterbury, ecclesiastical parishes, borough and other local authorities, and extensive private/unofficial. The role requires a qualified archivist or someone with equivalent experience, with the ability to catalogue to ISAD(G) standards using archival cataloguing software, specifically CALM; excellent communication, interpersonal and presentational skills; good competence in IT; and the ability to meet deadlines. If you love working with archives and people, and share our vision of making archival collections as accessible and beneficial to as many people as possible, please get in touch. Kent County Council is one of the country’s biggest local authorities and provides a comprehensive package of benefits and employee support https://www.kent.gov.uk/jobs/careers-with-us/working-for-ustab-2 This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service. This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.