Black Cultural Archives in Brixton needs you
Are you enthusiastic, talented and reliable?
The Collections team are recruiting for volunteers now!
These are exciting times for Black Cultural Archive as we celebrate our one year anniversary at the Black Heritage Centre in Brixton. We run a busy schools, young people and public and exhibitions programme. Our unique archive collection feeds into a variety of these activities. We are working to make sure all of our current documents and donations are listed and catalogued ready for our visitors to access and use. We are working hard to ensure our visitors receive a warm welcome and have an enjoyable experience within the new gallery, learning centre, archive and library, courtyard, cafe and gift shop. It is important that we make our facilities and public programme more accessible, and the Black Heritage Centre need great people to help work towards success and sustainability.
Our purpose is to promote, support and develop creativity and this applies to our volunteers and staff as well as our visitors. We champion diversity and equal opportunities and are committed to the professional development of all our volunteers and staff.
We are seeking to recruit a number of highly motivated, talented and diverse individuals, with time, energy, and a keen interest in Black history, heritage and culture, who have the necessary proven experience to carry out their chosen role, an can ensure a commitment to a one-year agreement and live within an easy distance from the Heritage centre.
The different roles available are all within the Collections Team and are listed further below. As a Collections volunteer you will work directly with the Collections Manager and the Assistant Archivist.
Our Volunteers will help to promote our vision and help work towards a world class cultural heritage organisation.
Black Cultural Archives will offer you:
· A sense of fulfilment
· Training and induction
· An opportunity to develop new skills
· A change to meet wide range of visitors and participants
· Appraisal meetings
· An appreciation of your involvement and commitment to the organization
Candidates essentially should have:
·Experience and ability to work with people across a range of abilities, ages, outcomes and settings
·Good spoken, written and communication skills
·Experience of Microsoft Office
·Knowledge or a keen interest in Black History
·Willing to undertake a CRB check if required
About Black Cultural Archives
Black Cultural Archives is a charity and company limited by guarantee dedicated to collecting, preserving and celebrating the history of Black people in the UK. In Spring 2014, we opened the first national Black Heritage Centre in the UK, in Windrush Square, Brixton. This building development provides a permanent home for our collection of historic material with a strong public programme of outreach, exhibitions, education and events relating to Black Britain and the African Diaspora.
HOW TO APPLY
If you would like to apply for any of the volunteer roles in Collections (listed below), then please submit an email of interest to
archives@bcaheritage.org.ukand add
Collections Volunteer Email of Interest in the subject heading. More information regarding the specific role and an application form will then be sent to you.
· Records Management
· Reading Room Explainer
· Transcription (Oral History)
· Collections Care
· Catalogue Improvement
Should you have any further questions, please email
archives@bcaheritage.org.uk
Closing date and time: deadline extended now until Friday 14th August 2015 at 2pm
Interviews: Tuesday 17th of August 2015
Training: September 2015