Archivist

Job description / Role

Duties and Responsibilities
- Supervises and trains archives assistants, interns, students and volunteers.
- Coordinates and facilitates archives access requests by staff, faculty, researchers, research associates, as well as responding to archives information inquiries and requests.
- Responsible for archival maintenance.
- Manages archival policies and procedures.

Requirements

Education
A Bachelors’ or Master’s degree in history, art history, library science, or records management.

Skills
- Analytical skills: You must be able to determine the origin, importance, and condition of materials so you can decide which items to preserve.
- Organizational skills: are important in developing systems for storing materials and making them available to the staff, faculty members, researchers, research associates, students.
- Interpersonal Skills: Your ability to listen, verbally communicate and instruct people.
- Reading comprehension: You must be able to understand written documents.
- Computer literacy: This includes accessing databases and other electronic document management tools.

Required skills
- Analytical Skills
- Communication Skills
- Computer Literacy
- Record management

About the Company

Inspire Selection is an award winning recruitment agency, headquartered in Dubai which recruits across the Middle East region. We employ highly knowledgeable, professional consultants who are experts in connecting the right people with the right opportunities. Our reputation has been built upon our honesty, integrity and our ability to source candidates of the highest calibre right across our specialist sectors. As a result, we are recruitment partners to a wide spectrum of organisations - from leading blue chip companies to smaller, local businesses. Sectors we cover include HR, Administration, Finance & Accounting, Legal, Sales & Marketing including Digital Marketing, IT, Oil/Gas/Energy, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Higher Education.