What you’ll do

The role requires the ability to carry out day-to-day collections management responsibilities, including acquisition, cataloguing, and collections care as well as contribute to wider planning and development work.

You will provide support for records management and information governance, including contributing to the development of systems and processes for the capture and management of born-digital records and archives. You will also support forward planning by carrying out collections review and scoping legacy backlogs of appraisal, cataloguing and collections care.

Working as part of a small team, you will also support access and engagement activities, particularly in conjunction with your collections management work, helping to support the wider work of Quakers in Britain.

What we’re looking for

• Experience of working in an archives management role and with archival material, including accessioning, cataloguing, and collections care

• Experience of accessioning and cataloguing digital archives and supporting digital preservation

• Experience of using collections management software for archives

• Experience of planning, delivering or participating in access and engagement activities relating to archives

Quakers are committed to equality and welcome applicants from all identities and backgrounds. Selection is based solely on skills, experience, qualifications, and abilities. We aim to prevent age, belief, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, neurodivergence, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or social class from being a barrier to employment. We aim for an equitable, user-friendly application process, and reasonable adjustments can be made if needed. As a Quaker organisation we expect all applicants and employees to uphold our values.

We are committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. All candidates will undergo pre-employment checks in line with our Safer Recruitment guidelines.

Hours 35 hours per week

Salary £36,842 plus £6,500 London Weighting

Contract Full time, permanent

Location Friends House, London NW1 2BJ

Closing date: 8am, 27 August 2026

Interview 8 September, Friends House, London