Graduate Trainee Archivist

(One-year fixed term contract, full-time)

Trinity College Library wishes to appoint an enthusiastic Graduate Trainee Archivist for one year from September 2024. The post offers an ideal opportunity to gain a wide range of experience in a busy academic library and archive before embarking on a career in archives and records management. The post involves a wide variety of work with both the College’s administrative archives along with extensive collections of personal papers.  In addition, the trainee will have the opportunity to work on a special project.

The successful candidate will have or be expected to be awarded a good honours degree, have an interest in archival work as a career, have experience of archive, library or museum work and good IT skills together with excellent communication skills, ability to work on their own initiative as well as part of a team.

The salary is £25,634 per annum with further benefits, which include (subject to eligibility) a free meal when on duty, a subsidised gym and a generous defined contribution pension scheme.   The role is full time (36 ¼ hours per week).

Further information can be found on the Further Particulars below, along with the application and equal opportunities monitoring forms which should be returned to [email protected] by 9am on Friday 19 April 2024.  Interviews are expected to take place in person on 29 April.