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Job Description:
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Job Identification
Job title: Project archivist (project funded by the Government of Canada)
Division: Collection
Immediate superior : Archivist
Status : Contract of approximately 10 months until March 2019, full time (35 hours/week)
Posting period: From 18 May to 3 June 2018
Job entry : As soon as possible
Summary
Based on its extensive Collection, exhibitions, programs, and research opportunities, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is a leading voice in advancing knowledge, promoting public understanding, and widening thought and debate on architecture, its history, theory, practice, and role in society today. The guiding purpose of the Collection is to make comprehensive and integrated bodies of material available for advanced, interdisciplinary research in order to reveal the changing character of thought, culture, and intellectual circles of the past, and point to the future of architectural thinking and practice. Currently, the CCA is placing the emphasis on enlarging access to its rich Canadian and international archival collections. Thanks to the generous support of Library and Archives Canada’s Documentary Heritage Communities Program to help increase the capacity of documentary heritage institutions to better sustain and preserve Canada’s documentary heritage, the CCA will embark on a project to process two Canadian architectural fonds with significant documentary heritage.
Key responsibilities areas
• Processes archival collections in all formats, including born-digital material and ensures efficient, effective, and appropriate processing of the archives based on archival principles and practices
• Creates and edits finding aids
• At times provides reference services and research support for the holdings of the Collection and engages in other professional activities of the team as required
• Contributes to discussions with the Archivist, the editorial and curatorial team as well as with the Head of Collection Access on the refinement of workflows for accessioning, ingesting, processing, describing, preserving, and providing access to archival holdings
Requirements
• Education: Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) or equivalent degree
• Number of years of relevant work experience: 1 to 3 years
• Working knowledge of archival descriptive standards such as RAD, ISAD(G), and/or DACS
• Strong command of archival theory and best practices
• Knowledge of historical research methods as applied to archives
• Comfortable working in a vault and ability to lift boxes of archival material weighing up to 40 pounds
• Ability to manage a high volume of work, complex problem-solving and moderate stress with periods of high stress due to internal and external project deadlines
Please submit your application before June 3, 2018 by email: rh@cca.qc.ca to the attention of Human Resources, CCA, 1920 Baile Street, Montreal (Quebec) H3H 2S6. Only successful applicants will be contacted. The CCA is an equal opportunity employer.
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