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Closing date for applications: 29 August 2025Salary: £28,000 - £37,800 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.&nbsp;Location: Glasgow, Pacific Quay, BBC Scotland, hybrid&nbsp;Contract type: Permanent, Full-time &nbsp;Department: Archive and Library Services&nbsp;Job band: C Want to help preserve the history of the BBC? Curate, conserve and promote its diverse archives for future generations.Curators work across the BBC’s archive collections applying their knowledge and expertise to promote re-use and exploration of the archive by content makers. Join our team and help preserve the rich history of the BBC archive. In this role, you’ll acquire, curate, conserve, and research valuable collections, ensuring they remain accessible for generations to come. You’ll also actively promote and market the archive, bringing its treasures to wider audiences. Responsibilities<ul><li>Support the active development, management, promotion, and curation of the BBC archive</li><li>Conduct activities such as research, cataloguing, acquisition, and collection building</li><li>Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders to grow use of the archive collections</li><li>Align archive activities with broader BBC objectives to maximise engagement</li><li>Maintain archive policies and standards while managing collections effectively</li><li>Act as an ambassador for BBC archives, developing deep expertise in the collections</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experienceEssential<ul><li>Understanding of BBC content and how the archive might further contribute &nbsp;</li><li>Demonstrable subject matter knowledge in archives or broadcast and media content management</li><li>Ability to use IT proficiently, including a range of software packages and collaboration tools</li><li>Experience of influencing, negotiating and communicating effectively both internally and with external agencies/partners with the ability to problem solve and suggest effective solutions</li><li>Effective planning and organising skills. Ability to concentrate on several areas of work at one time, prioritising, delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities</li></ul>Desirable<ul><li>Experience of working as a curator, archivist or librarian</li><li>Experience of working in a broadcast or content production environment</li><li>Knowledge of BBC output, editorial guidelines and other compliance policies</li><li>Gaelic language skills &nbsp;</li><li>Knowledge of broadcasting technology practices, relevant regulations</li></ul>If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.&nbsp; EligibilityThis role is advertised as part of our <a href="https://careers.bbc.co.uk/content/BBC_Extend/?locale=en_GB" target="_blank">BBC Extend programme</a> for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either<a href="https://www.gov.uk/definition-of-disability-under-equality-act-2010" target="_blank"> the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010)</a>, or the definition of disability in the <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/50/section/1" target="_blank">Disability Discrimination Act (1995)</a> if applying in Northern Ireland. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis. If you’d like more information on BBC Extend, please visit the <a href="https://careers.bbc.co.uk/content/BBC_Extend/?locale=en_GB" target="_blank">BBC Extend webpage.</a>We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact <a href="https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/CURATOR/extend@bbc.co.uk." target="_blank">extend@bbc.co.uk.</a>&nbsp;The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place. Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Curator - extend

Closing date for applications: 12 September 2025Salary: £25,600 per annum (based on FTE of £32,000)Contract: Part time (four days a week), 7.5 month fixed term Help connect the public with the Southbank Centre's iconic archive through creative engagement programmes and volunteer sessions.The Southbank Centre is Europe’s largest arts centre and one of the UK’s top five visitor attractions, occupying an 11-acre site that sits in the midst of London’s most vibrant cultural quarter on the South Bank of the Thames. Its impact and reach are significant and it is respected internationally as a convener of great artists and diverse audiences and for being entrepreneurial and innovative in response to a volatile and changing financial landscape. The Southbank Centre is a charity that is determined to demonstrate its ambition to remain innovative, disruptive and experimental in what it does and to be highly relevant to the artists it wants to work with and to the audiences it wants to attract.We are currently looking for a project archivist (access) to join on a four-day part time, fixed-term contract. The project archivist (access) role will take the lead in developing and delivering our celebrated participatory collections management scheme for the period January 2026 - March 2026. Working closely with the public archive team and wider creative engagement teams, you’ll develop and run workshops focused on the collection priorities of the archive. Responsibilities<ul><li>Work with the archivist and wider creative engagement team to lead delivery of biweekly volunteering sessions, centred in the Archive Studio in the Royal Festival Hall</li><li>Develop engaging and informative sessions from creative engagement and collection priorities, including skills training, promoting wellbeing, collection care and building collections information</li><li>Provide a responsive point of contact for the archive research and enquiry service, in-person, via phone and through email contact</li><li>Conduct in-depth archival research to assist users in locating specific documents or information in support of their query</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experience<ul><li>A general understanding of the requirements of archival work, such as repackaging, describing, digitising and arranging archive material</li><li>Experience in managing volunteers and delivering creative public engagement or training programmes</li><li>Proficiency in using archival management software, ideally Access to Memory, and demonstrable IT literacy</li><li>An accredited qualification in Archives and Records management, equivalent experience or a demonstrable interest in archives and heritage</li></ul>Please download the job description from our career page via the 'Apply' button for a full overview of the role's responsibilities. Benefits and perksAs well as working at one of London's most popular and exciting sites, the successful candidate will also benefit from the following:<ul><li>A minimum 5% employer’s pension contribution (rising to 9% depending on your employee contribution), from day 1 of employment</li><li>28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part time employees)</li><li>Hybrid working model</li><li>Enhanced sick pay</li><li>Enhanced family leave benefits</li><li>Up to 30% discounts at onsite retail, food and beverage vendors</li><li>Staff ticket offers for Southbank Centre events</li><li>Free entry to Hayward Gallery</li><li>Free/discounted entry with other reciprocal organisations</li><li>Free staff yoga</li><li>Free access to emotional support from a confidential specialist Employee Assistance Programme available 24/7</li><li>Season ticket loan</li><li>Cycle to work scheme</li></ul> Additional informationWe welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse background or those who are D/deaf or disabled. If you wish to discuss reasonable adjustments such as a BSL interpreter for your interview, please indicate this on your application form. Interviews will take place at The Southbank Centre. If you would like to speak to someone about any adjustments or concerns, you can also email and we will be in touch with you to make the necessary arrangements.By attracting people to work for us from a broad range of backgrounds with diverse attitudes, opinions and beliefs we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things. The Southbank Centre is a warm and welcoming place to work, with great aspirations and ambitions to create great and accessible work for all. We pride ourselves in building a supportive environment to enable the development of our staff.If you feel you have just some of the required skills and experience but meet the person specification, we would still encourage you to apply; we are very open to continuing the training and development of individuals who are self motivated to acquire new skills and knowledge relevant to the role. Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

The Southbank Centre

Project archivist - access

Closing date for applications: 18:00 BST on 12th of September 2025 &nbsp; &nbsp;The Ffern Folk Foundation is seeking applicants for its 2026 Grant!The Ffern Folk Foundation is a new initiative aimed at supporting the next generation of British Folk Arts and Traditions.&nbsp;The central pillar of the Foundation is our annual grant of up to £50,000, which will fund one or more practitioners to progress their work and bring it to a wider audience. &nbsp;Our VisionIn a time of ecological crisis and social dislocation, we believe that Britain’s Folk Arts and Traditions are fundamental to the strengthening of our bonds with the environment and each other.Through our advocacy, we aim to grow and connect folk communities across the country. In turn, we hope that this will give more people the chance to get involved in this dynamic cultural space. &nbsp;What We SupportWe believe British Folk Arts and Traditions are not static or dormant. Our focus is on supporting those who are engaging with British Folk in new and vibrant ways.&nbsp;While we are open to working with a wide range of practitioners, we will use the following constellations to plot our course.Storytelling: oral histories, sound, songRitual: ceremony, dance, performance artGathering: rambling, community, seasonalityWe welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries, and may feel estranged from the conventional scope of British Folk Arts and Traditions. &nbsp;How to ApplyTo make an application, follow the link at the bottom of our webpage found via the Apply button. Within your application, you must include two documents.&nbsp;<ol><li>A portfolio (5 pages) of relevant work which includes your artist’s CV. You can link to other materials, e.g. your website, films, animations, exhibitions, from this portfolio.</li><li>A written proposal (800 words).</li></ol>Within your proposal we require a short description of your project, a brief timeline of how you expect to enact your project, and a description of how you would use your requested budget.To tailor your proposal, please refer to the Folk Foundation <a href="https://ffern.co/folk-foundation" target="_blank">webpage</a> where you'll find our <a href="https://ffern.co/folk-foundation/faq" target="_blank">FAQs</a>. For any further queries, please contact us through <a href="mailto:folkfoundation@ffern.co" target="_blank">folkfoundation@ffern.co</a>&nbsp;We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.

Ffern Folk Foundation

Ffern

Call for applications – The Ffern Folk Foundation

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