Archives Service Officer - Kent County Council (closes 5/7)

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Kent County Council ‍ ‍

Archives Service Officer

Salary    £32,140 - £35,035 per annum

Contract type: Permanent Full Time

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Job Reference: REF/TP/165448/14714

Closing date:      5 July, 2026

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‍Job Introduction

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a qualified archivist to join the small, friendly and highly motivated team at the Kent Archive Service on a permanent full-time basis.

Role Responsibility

The Archive Services Officer role includes a wide range of professional duties, from dealing with depositors, accessioning and cataloguing, to answering detailed research enquiries about the collections and participating in our outreach programmes.‍ ‍

KALHS is based at the Kent History and Library Centre, Maidstone. It is an Accredited Archives Service and has Place of Deposit status for housing public records. The archival collections include Kent County Council, the dioceses of Rochester and Canterbury, ecclesiastical parishes, borough and other local authorities, and extensive private/unofficial.

The role requires a qualified archivist or someone with equivalent experience, with the ability to catalogue to ISAD(G) standards using archival cataloguing software, specifically CALM; excellent communication, interpersonal and presentational skills; good competence in IT; and the ability to meet deadlines.

If you love working with archives and people and share our vision of making archival collections as accessible and beneficial to as many people as possible, please get in touch.

Kent County Council is one of the country’s biggest local authorities and provides a comprehensive package of benefits and employee support https://www.kent.gov.uk/jobs/careers-with-us/working-for-us#tab-2

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Interviews for this role will be held on Wednesday 15th July and Thursday 16th July 2026 and will consist of a tour of Archive Services, an interview and a test.

Contact Details

For further information please contact: Amelia Battershill, Assistant Service Manager

Amelia.Battershill@kent.gov.uk & 03000 411011.