Digitisation Officer, Wiener Holocaust Library

Permanent part-time (60% FTE) role, based in Central London, WC1
Salary: £18,300 per annum (pro rata from £30,500 FTE)
Start date: as soon as possible
Responsible to: Digital Asset Manager

Deadline for Applications: Tuesday, 22 September, 5.30pm
Interview date: Monday, 5 October

The Wiener Holocaust Library is the world's oldest Holocaust archive and the home of Britain's largest collection of published and unpublished works, documents and photographs relating to the Nazi era.

JOB DESCRIPTION
At the end of 2026, The Wiener Holocaust Library will complete its ambitious five-year Digital Transformation Project to revolutionise access to its collections. This involved creating several hundred thousand digital images of our materials, as well as an online platform, Wiener Digital Collections, to host them. Beyond the conclusion of the DTP, the Library will continue to add new materials to the viewer, while also creating digital images for exhibitions, outreach and educational work, and to meet reader digitisation requests. Ahead of a planned extension project and closure period later in 2027, we anticipate increased digitisation demand.

We are therefore seeking an individual with experience of digitising library and/or archival collections to digitise our globally significant collections and support reader services as a member of the Collections Team. The successful candidate will have a proven track record in photography and digitisation, a knowledge of photographing and processing items in a studio situation, and a deep understanding of the equipment, software and systems used for this.

As we are a small organisation, we are looking for someone who is a good team player and willing to be involved in a variety of projects as necessary. This will include supporting our reading room services by covering the Reading Room Enquiry Desk and retrieving materials from the stores.

The role is based on-site at the Library. Usual working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm.