Digital Curatorial Archivist (Our Screen Heritage) x2

Salary: £34,602 - £40,545

The BFI is looking for two Digital Curatorial Archivists to join the BFI’s Our Screen Heritage Project within the Knowledge, Learning & Collections department.

Our Screen Heritage is a time-bound major strategic national lottery project with ambitious outcomes.  The project is funded by the BFI Screen Heritage Fund, awarding National Lottery funding.   

The role of the digital curatorial archivists in Our Screen Heritage is to focus on key areas of digital moving image collections development for the BFI National Archive major lottery programme. The role forms the crucial bridge between curatorial selection and digital preservation, ensuring accurate accessioning, cataloguing and overall digital collections appraisal activity.  

Role details

• Full-time
• Fixed-term until 31 March 2026
• For further detail and to apply, please visit the BFI’s job portal.

Role responsibilities

• As a part of curatorial team, to take responsibility for acquisition, accession and, where necessary, disposal of digital material on offer to the BFI National Archive through Our Screen Heritage programme. To assess acquisition offers, in consultation with curators, as necessary. To document acquired materials and identify any digital conservation work required, in accordance with BFI policy and procedures and relevant international standards.
• Undertake identification, accessioning and documentation of digital materials at item level. To participate in programme of retrospective born digital collections review and documentation against agreed targets.  
• Work within best practice guidelines, to undertake cataloguing in CID of priority titles including newly acquired digital moving images and those that are part of BFI cultural programme.  To catalogue items within the archive to agreed standards using Axiell collections management software. 

Person specifications

• Good general knowledge of British moving image history and familiarity with UK film and TV industries. 
• Qualification in archiving or library/information or equivalent experience. 
• Excellent knowledge of cataloguing standards. 
• Excellent knowledge of the use of automated archive systems, spreadsheets and information databases for documentation and collections management, utilising established international standards. 

How to apply

For further details and to apply, please visit the BFI’s job portal.

The closing date for this position is 02/06/2025 at 23:59