Salary: £47,514 – £55,914 per annum
Permanent
We are seeking an Archive Technology Manager to join the Collections Management Team at the BFI National Archive’s Conservation Centre in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.
As the Archive Technology Manager, you will provide overall leadership and management for the equipment and technology required by the BFI National Archive in delivering its objectives of care and access to the collections.
Your leadership of a team of multi-disciplined engineers will encompass maintenance of equipment, both analogue and digital, research and innovation, implementation of new technologies and equipment, all with careful attention to standards and legislation (including for quality assurance for collections care, collections security, and risk), robust knowledge management, and a keen attention to operational efficiencies and continuous improvement.
You will be an experienced people manager, with extensive previous experience of planning, supervising, and delivering major engineering/technology services. You will also have thorough knowledge of digitization and post-production systems spanning all analogue and digital processes and networks. You will have a demonstrable commitment to excellent knowledge management and collaboration.
Key responsibilities include:
We are looking for candidates who have:
A full list of responsibilities and minimum requirements can be found in the job description.
About the BFI
We are a cultural charity, a National Lottery distributor, and the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image. We believe society needs stories. Film, television and the moving image bring them to life, helping us connect and understand each other better. We share the stories of yesterday, search for the stories of today, and shape the stories of tomorrow.
At the BFI you’ll enjoy benefits such as excellent support for working parents, 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), tickets to BFI festivals and events plus many others.
We support diversity and inclusion, and as an organisation recognise that we need to address under representation within our teams. As such we strongly welcome and encourage applicants from our under-represented groups; who identify as D/deaf and disabled and/or are ethnically diverse. We guarantee a first interview to our under-represented groups who meet our minimum requirements.
Further details about the role, the BFI and our benefits can be found in the attachments on the left.
The closing date for applications is 23:59 on 07 September 2023
First interviews will be held on 14 September 2023