Archivist and Community Engagement Coordinator

Ravenswood School for Girls

GORDON, NSW 


Admin / SSO / Non-Teaching

Contract Type: Permanent/Ongoing Position Full Time

Applications Close: 31 October 2022


• Permanent part time position • 3 days per week • Year round position, 4 weeks of annual leave

<p>Ravenswood is a Uniting Church Prep to Year 12 day and boarding school for girls located on Sydney’s North Shore. Ravenswood offers both the HSC and the IB Diploma Programme as well as the PYP in the Junior School. It is a school where staff enjoy a range of benefits that foster health and wellbeing, and students achieve outstanding academic success supported by innovative teaching practices that are underpinned by a whole school approach to Positive Education. </p><p>We are seeking an archivist to join our Marketing, Communications and Engagement Department on a permanent part time basis. This role is a 3 day per week role. </p><p>Our Archivist and Community Engagement Coordinator has responsibility for overseeing the collection, collation and record management of both the School’s physical and digital historical assets. Reporting to the Director of Marketing, Communications and Engagement, the Archivist is required to work with a range of internal and external stakeholders. This is an important role as it is responsible for ensuring the memories, stories and traditions of the School’s proud 121-year history are preserved and shared with alumni, current and future students and families. Candidates with a background including implementation of and ongoing use of digital records cataloguing and retrieval systems will be highly regarded. </p><p>The responsibility for Community Engagement includes supporting the School as the School engages with Ravenswood community. This will include assisting the Marketing and Communications team with community engagement events, campus tours, as well as supporting the maintenance of the Alumni database and assisting with Alumni-related communications and content for publications where needed. </p><p>To secure this role, the successful applicant will have: </p><ul><li>Relevant qualifications in Archives, Library, Records or Information Management disciplines (desirable but not essential)</li><li>Demonstrated administrative experience in records and information management in a professional environment.</li><li>Excellent Microsoft Office word processing, Powerpoint and Excel skills</li><li>Experience in engagement events and communications</li><li>Outstanding verbal and written communication skills</li><li>A flexible and open mindset, a champion of change and continuous improvement</li><li>The ability to network and form strong relationships within the community</li><li>The ability to be discrete and appropriately manage confidential and sensitive information.</li><li>The ability to lead students and/or parent volunteers and adhere to the requirements of Privacy, Child Protection, Work Health and Safety and Copyright legislation and any other relevant legislation</li></ul><p>Ravenswood School for Girls is dedicated to maintaining a child safe environment and is committed to the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children. </p><p><b>To Apply: </b></p><p>Please include a cover letter as the first page of your resume. </p><p>Shortlisted applicants will be required to provide the School with their Working With Children Check number in order to be eligible for this position. </p><p>It is not a requirement of employment to be vaccinated for COVID-19. However, the School strongly encourages all of their employees to maintain an up-to-date vaccination status against COVID-19. To meet our work, health and safety requirements, the School may need to conduct an individual risk assessment for any unvaccinated candidate prior to an offer of employment. </p><p><b>Applications close:</b> 3pm, Monday 31 October 2022</p><p><b>If you have any questions</b> please contact Lindsay Crump on <a href="mailto:lcrump&#64;ravenswood.nsw.edu.au" rel="nofollow">lcrump&#64;ravenswood.nsw.edu.au</a> </p><p><b>Ravenswood is a Uniting Church IB World School. </b></p><p><br /></p>
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