Ruyton Girls' School, Kew VIC 3101
Position Summary
The Archivist is responsible for the management of the School's archives and heritage collection. The Archivist manages an archive defined by the School for the purposes of collecting, interpreting and permanently preserving records that have value as authentic evidence of the School's administrative, corporate, intellectual and cultural activity, or as evidence of the activities of the School's wider community of support groups and alumnae.
The role has overall responsibility for the acquisition, organisation, preservation, display and access to Ruyton's archives collection, both physical artefacts and digital records. The Archivist facilitates access to these records in accordance with approved policies and procedures to support the School's organisational efficiency and accountability, community and alumnae engagement, relevant teaching and learning, and assist the work of approved external researchers.
The Archivist is responsible for collecting, storing, conserving and retrieving these records. Access to the records and interpretation of historic material may be provided to members of the Ruyton community as well as external researchers.
This is a three‐year fixed‐term position with a 0.6 FTE, working two days per week.
Ruyton Commitment to Child Safety
Ruyton is committed to ensuring we embed a Child Safe environment, in which all our children and young people feel included, empowered, respected, valued, and safe. As part of our ongoing commitment to child safety and wellbeing, we ensure all staff, volunteers and contractors understand and adhere to our Child Safe Program, including Child Safe policies and ongoing Child Safe training. Our recruitment processes place people that support and reflect our child safety and wellbeing values with the right qualifications and knowledge. Ruyton has a zero tolerance of child abuse, and all allegations and safety concerns will be treated very seriously and consistently within our policies and procedures.
Please refer to our school website to read our policies here or visit https://www.ruyton.vic.edu.au/our-school/policies/.
This position description summarises the essential responsibilities, activities, qualifications and skills associated with the role and may be reviewed or modified by the Principal or their delegate to reflect the School's strategic direction and the ongoing development of role requirements.
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