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About the Role

The National Archives is seeking a passionate and driven manager to oversee large-scale document moves and lead a team of up to eight individuals. This role offers a career progression opportunity, with a 12-24 month development plan leading to promotion to Archival Storage Manager. The role involves building an understanding of data, manipulating it in Excel, and presenting it via Power BI, while honing people management skills.

Responsibilities

Maintaining an audit trail of all document moves
Liaising with colleagues, other departments, and external contractors
Line management of the team, motivating staff to deliver against agreed objectives
Proactively overseeing the work of the team and effectively delegating tasks
Ensuring team members are trained and capable of taking on delegated tasks
Supervising contractors, providing clear instructions, and overseeing work
Accurately updating in-house databases (DORIS/Surveyor)
Analysis of routine data to find storage solutions and solve problems
Making data-informed decisions within defined guidelines with minimal supervision
Acting upon data to physically re-locate documents
Communicating with internal and external stakeholders on forthcoming offsite document moves
Proactively providing regular updates and engaging with public and staff user groups
Responding to, or contributing towards responses to, feedback from users
Developing and enhancing archival storage processes using data and sector practices
Providing coaching to develop staff within their roles
Creating project plans with deliverable milestones
Assisting in planning and executing the reorganisation of the archives
Responding to suggested document transfer plans, ensuring execution by allocating resources and storage space, and negotiating when necessary

Requirements

Potential for managing and developing a team
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Demonstrable experience of liaising with internal and external stakeholders, including the supervision of contractors
Strong influencing and negotiation skills with the ability to be flexible
Proven ability to proactively manage own workload, as well as that of others, to deadline in a demand-led environment
Strong analytical skills with experience of using routine data to make decisions in consultation with other managers
High level of attention to detail and the ability to maintain accuracy across sustained periods
Demonstrable experience of line managing a team, including coaching and developing staff
Ability to gather information or provide guidance for stakeholders at pace
Ability to adjust to changing priorities
Prioritising from a range of competing priorities
Developing project plans, with deliverable milestones, which align with departmental and organisational strategies
Experience of making data driven decisions in relation to business-as-usual work with minimal supervision from managers
Excellent IT skills, including a good level of experience using Excel and Power BI to record and present data
SC clearance/willingness to obtain SC clearance
Resident in the UK for at least the past five years

Skills

Excel
Power BI
MS Office
Outlook
Teams

Location

Kew
Offsite storage facility in Cheshire

Work Type

Permanent
Onsite
Full-time
Overtime every third Saturday
Late rota every six weeks (Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:50 am - 7 pm)
Travel to other sites as required
Occasional overnight stays may be required

Experience Level

Progression role (Band D to E)
12-24 month development plan

Salary/Compensations

£30,209 per annum

Benefits

Civil Service Pension
Discounts at local businesses
Wellbeing resources
Access to on-site gym, restaurant, and staff bar
Generous benefits package
Sports and social club facilities
Annual leave entitlement of 22 days per calendar year (rising to 25 after the first year, and incrementally to 30 days after six years)
10½ days public and privilege holidays per annum

About the Company

The National Archives is a special place to work, an institution nearly 200 years old with a collection spanning 1,000 years of history.
We are striving to become the 21st Century national archive: Inclusive, Entrepreneurial, Disruptive.
The Document Services Department (DSD) is responsible for the storage and production of The National Archives (TNA) collection and is the first point of contact for users and visitors to the archives.
The collection currently exceeds 17 million documents and expands each year.
The Archive Management Team is a key strategic contributor to the expansion of The National Archives’ collection.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities.
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

Equal Opportunity

We run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.