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Digital Archivist for Electronic Records Contract UK

Name: Digital Archivist for Electronic Records Contract UK
Brand: HRHeaven
SKU: libraries_and_archives_digital_archivist_e_records_generated_v1
Price: 19.99 GBP
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Set trustworthy digital preservation around verified transfer, fixity, documented formats and sustainable access over time.

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This contract includes Appraise and receive digital transfers. Validate files formats and metadata. Create preservation and access packages. Preview before payment PDF and editable DOCX files after checkoutBuilt for UK employers

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Last updated: 19 June 2026
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Job description

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Role-specific duties

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Working hours

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Holiday entitlement

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Confidentiality

Client and company confidentiality.

Disciplinary process

Clear process and employee rights.

Notice periods

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When to use this contract

Deliver verified digital archive ingests, deliver maintained fixity and preservation evidence, and coordinate controlled usable long-term access.

Workplace context: Office, client premises, remote systems or assigned work locations.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering collections systems storage and projects. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering transfers manifests malware and fixity. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering formats metadata migration and emulation. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering access security incidents and evidence. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering company policies.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The archivist cannot bypass encryption, delete originals prematurely, change files without provenance, expose restricted records or claim untested backups are preserved. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

What to prepare before you issue it

the digital collections and preservation policy
the repository and storage architecture
the transfer and validation tools
the access security and retention rules
the records owner IT security and archive contacts

Day-to-day operating brief

What Digital Archivist (E-records) work looks like in practice

A Digital Archivist acquires and preserves born-digital records such as email, documents, databases, websites or audiovisual files. Terms should cover transfer agreements, secure staging, malware checks, checksums, file formats, metadata, storage copies, emulation or migration, access restrictions and preservation planning. The archivist should not rename or convert files without traceability, confuse a backup with preservation, or delete source packages before ingest and fixity evidence are complete. Preservation monitoring should test that replicas can be read and reconstructed, not merely count that storage copies exist. Normalisation decisions need format identification confidence and tool logs, while significant properties such as formulas, embedded media or email relationships should be checked before a derivative is treated as an adequate access version.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

Appraise and receive digital transfers.
Validate files formats and metadata.
Create preservation and access packages.
Monitor storage fixity and obsolescence.
Document migrations restrictions and incidents.

A realistic working scenario

A transfer contains encrypted files without keys, so the archivist records the limitation and seeks authorised recovery rather than ingesting an unreadable package as complete.

Outputs to agree

verified digital archive ingests
maintained fixity and preservation evidence
controlled usable long-term access

Records and evidence

Transfer source authority and manifest.
File checksum format and validation.
Storage copy fixity date and result.
Migration tool version and outcome.
Work records.
Handover notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Line Manager or Department Manager. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

The archivist cannot bypass encryption, delete originals prematurely, change files without provenance, expose restricted records or claim untested backups are preserved.
Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

Cloud platforms.
User devices.

Workplace context

Office, client premises, remote systems or assigned work locations.

Contract priorities

collections systems storage and projects
transfers manifests malware and fixity
formats metadata migration and emulation
access security incidents and evidence

Information the employer should prepare

the digital collections and preservation policy
the repository and storage architecture
the transfer and validation tools
the access security and retention rules
the records owner IT security and archive contacts

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Work setting

Office, client premises, remote systems or assigned work locations.

Primary duties

Appraise and receive digital transfers.
Validate files formats and metadata.
Create preservation and access packages.
Monitor storage fixity and obsolescence.

Tools and training to confirm

Cloud platforms.
User devices.

Governance focus

Employer procedures and role controls. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering collections systems storage and projects. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering transfers manifests malware and fixity. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering formats metadata migration and emulation.

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Digital Archivist (E-records) duties

Deliver verified digital archive ingests, deliver maintained fixity and preservation evidence, and coordinate controlled usable long-term access.

Appraise and receive digital transfers. Validate files formats and metadata. Create preservation and access packages. Monitor storage fixity and obsolescence. Document migrations restrictions and incidents.

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What is added to the finished contract

The archivist cannot bypass encryption, delete originals prematurely, change files without provenance, expose restricted records or claim untested backups are preserved.

Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering collections systems storage and projects.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering transfers manifests malware and fixity.

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