Senior Archivist/Archives Advisor at Department of Internal Affairs, Auckland

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Type: Fixed Term, 10 months.
Hours: Full time
Location: Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland
Business Group: Archives NZ
Branch: Te Haumi | Enterprise Partnership
Salary: $72,060 - $96,681

• Do you have a passion for archives and experience working in a reading room and research environment?
• Do you have excellent organisational and administrative skills and enjoy working in a varied role?
• Do you enjoy working collaboratively in a supportive team where every day is different?

Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Archives New Zealand sits within the Te Haumi, Enterprise Partnership branch, the Department's epicentre of information management, culture and heritage. Our branch is all about collecting, storing and preserving important things that are precious to New Zealand. Archives New Zealand is committed to working effectively with Māori, and upholding mātauranga Māori.

The Auckland Regional Office cares for and provides equitable access to public records in the region through reading room, reference, digitisation and government loans services. We have a full time, fixed term vacancy for a Senior Archivist | Archives Advisor to join our team. In this role you will be supporting our team to deliver reference services in the reading room and via remote reference and research requests.

You will also contribute to the assembling, cataloguing, preservation and management of valuable holdings of historical information across an experienced and supportive team. As an Senior Archivist you will be flexible to assist the team within the Auckland office and contribute to a nationally driven approach aligned with the other Archive Offices of Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga with a variety of tasks including appraisal, transfers, and archival arrangement and description.

If you have experience working with archives, have excellent organisational skills, and enjoy working to uphold mātauranga Māori we would love to hear from you.

We are an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We recognise a diverse workforce contributes to better business outcomes. We are committed to creating a workplace where all employees have equal access.

To learn more about the diverse, important mahi we do at Te Tari Taiwhenua and see why we're a great place to work, click here.

We work to make New Zealand better for New Zealanders through our four outcome areas:

• People can easily access the services and information they need
• Iwi, hapū and communities across New Zealand are safe, resilient and thriving
• People's sense of belonging and collective memory builds an inclusive New Zealand
• New Zealand is a well-functioning democracy across central and local government

This is a 10-month, Fixed term role, ending 30th June 2024.

Applications close: 5pm, 4 October2023
For more information please contact: Taila.Roth@dia.govt.nz
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