Title:  Intern - Archives

Summary of Duties:

Under the Direction of the Manager, Corporate Records, the Intern will assist in organizing, classifying, and inventorying the City’s archival records. This will include appropriately handling records and artifacts in varying physical conditions. The intern will gain archival management and records management experience regarding municipal archival records and artifacts.

Work Performed:

• Sort and classify a vast array of different historical items, art pieces, and Corporate photographs.
• Update inventory of archival items and corporate art.
• Create proper storage for archival items and corporate art.
• Access condition of archival items and determine action plans for cleaning and maintaining damaged items.
• Conduct research regarding ideal storage and preservation methods.
• Assist in creating a mandate and acquisition policy for the corporate archives.
• Assist in creating a Corporate Archives policy for the treatment and classification of archival pieces.
• Assist in creating a needs report and business plan for establishing and running a corporate archive.

Qualifications:

• Completion of, or working towards, a degree or Diploma in Library Science, Archival Studies, History, Art/Art History, or other relevant studies.

Eligibility under the City of London Internship Program as follows (see below):

MUST MEET CRITERIA AS EITHER A NEW IMMIGRANT, PERSON WITH A SELF-DECLARED DISABILITY, INDIGENOUS PERSON, RACIALIZED PERSON/VISIBLE MINORITY, OR A RECENT LOCAL POST-SECONDARY GRADUATE.

New immigrant:

• Persons who have gained permanent residency status and/or naturalized citizenship status; having arrived in Canada 0 – 5 years.
• Graduate of a recognized post-secondary education institute with Canadian equivalency
• English benchmark level 6 or above
• Legally entitled to work in Canada

OR

Person with a self-declared disability which poses employment barriers:

• Persons who identify as having one or more disabilities. City of London follows the definition of Disability as allowed under the Ontario Human Rights Code.

OR

Indigenous Persons:

• Person who identify as Aboriginal, First Nations, Metis, Inuit, and/or Indian.

OR

Racialized Persons/Visible Minorities:

• Persons, other than Indigenous persons, who are non-Caucasian in race. Also persons who have racial meanings attributed to them as a group in ways that negatively impacts their work and social life.

OR

Recent local post-secondary graduate:

• City of London residents currently residing or having left London within the last year ONLY and who have graduated from a recognized postsecondary institution.
• Limited work experience in their chosen field.

Experience:

• Experience in archival conservation an asset
• Experience in records management an asset
• Interest in archives, preservation and/or local History

Compensation & Other Information:

$22.44/hour

This posting is for one (1) temporary full-time up to 15 weeks position.

Current hours of Work: Monday - Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Work Arrangement: On-site. Subject to change in accordance with business requirements.

These hours of work are subject to change.

Police Record Check:

The successful candidate will be required to complete a Criminal Record Check.