Archivist at the City Archives in Stockholm

Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone living here today and in the future. We are now looking for someone who wants to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Are you an archivist who values variation, enjoys supporting others, and wants to develop your skills in archive and information management? Then this could be the right position for you.

Together with your colleagues, you will work for the City of Stockholm's administrations, companies, and foundations, with a particular focus on information management and digital deliveries.

Welcome to us

The City Archives is the city's information hub where information from the past and present becomes accessible to everyone. We help the city's operations to work correctly and efficiently with archive and information management and ensure that information is delivered to the City Archives in a structured, searchable, and quality-assured manner.

Our core values are engaged, curious, and systematic. At the City Archives, we continuously work to develop our working methods to increase the accessibility and value of our services. You will be part of the City Archives' unit that promotes the city's information management together with 20 employees. You belong to the group of Archive Services and Deliveries, which consists of 12 colleagues. The goal of our unit is that the City's information is transparent, accessible, and sustainable in the long term.

The City Archives has premises at Kungsklippan, designed by Gunnar Asplund, and at Liljeholmskajen in the old premises of Vin and Sprit.

A message from your future manager

My name is Eleanor Freud, and I am the unit manager for promoting the city's information management at the City Archives of Stockholm. It is important to me to have employees who enjoy their work, are self-driven, have good collaboration skills, and a problem-solving approach. With varying tasks where the needs of the city's operations are in focus, we collaborate to deliver good results and achieve our goals. From me, you can expect a present, engaged, and trustworthy manager who provides you with good opportunities for developing your own competencies.

Welcome to us at the City Archives!

We offer

We offer you:

• flexible working hours
• wellness allowance
• wellness hour 1h/week during working hours
• vacation exchange which means five or six extra vacation days
• the opportunity to work from home when the work allows.

Your role

Together we support the City of Stockholm's operations in their archive and information management and receive deliveries to the e-archive Stockholm.

Your tasks include, among other things:

• developing governing documents such as archive descriptions, classification structures, preservation lists, handling instructions, and strategies for long-term storage of digital information
• planning and executing deliveries
• leading or participating in connection projects
• processing digital information in connection with deliveries and archive maintenance efforts
• structuring and automating methods for handling digital information
• working with city-wide systems such as the city's case and document management system e-Dok (Platina).

Your qualifications and experience

We are looking for someone who has:

• a bachelor's degree with at least 60 credits in archive science
• experience working with digital archives or e-archive solutions
• very good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing.

It is meritorious if you have:

• experience with e-archive deliveries and good technical competence in digital archiving solutions
• experience executing assignments in information management and archives for paying customers
• education in systems technology or system development or equivalent knowledge acquired in other ways
• knowledge of agile methods/Scrum.

Your personality and working style

In this recruitment, we place great importance on your personal qualities.

To thrive and succeed in this position, we see that you are driven and self-sufficient. As a person, you enjoy being part of a workgroup, have an easy time communicating and collaborating. You take great responsibility for your tasks, are curious, and have the ambition to continuously develop your own skills and monitor the field. You are proactive and work goal- and result-oriented, which means you deliver tasks on time with high quality. The work also requires you to be structured and analytical.

Other

In this recruitment, we do not use personal letters, which means you do not need to attach a personal letter. In assessing your application, we will only base it on your CV and a number of questions you will need to answer when applying for the position. We ask that you respond concretely and briefly to the questions, and that there is a clear connection between your answers and your CV.

We may also use psychological tests as part of the overall assessment.

The City of Stockholm works with competency-based recruitment aimed at considering each person's competencies and thus counteracting discrimination.

Read about the City Archives on our website: https://stadsarkivet.stockholm/ (https://stadsarkivet.stockholm/)