Job Advertisement: Assistant at the Folklife Archive

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Workplace Description

The Folklife Archive with Skåne's music collections is a traditional archive, affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities at Lund University since 1913.

Our mission is to provide infrastructure for research and education. The collections mainly consist of cultural-historical and ethnological documents, such as stories, audio recordings, photographs, and other images that reflect everyday life past and present. Many of the materials are digitized and searchable via our website.

The archive has five employees and is now seeking an assistant for six months, focusing on the registration of archival materials. The Folklife Archive is located in modern premises at Arkivcentrum Syd in southern Lund, where other archival institutions such as the National Archives and Lund City Archives also operate.

We Offer

Lund University is a government agency and offers good employment conditions. As an assistant, you as a student have the opportunity to combine studies with work to complement your theoretical knowledge with practical work experience within academia.

Read more on the university's website about working with us (https://www.lu.se/om-universitetet/jobba-hos-oss).

Job Responsibilities

As an assistant, your tasks may vary, but you must study at the faculty where the work will be conducted, and the tasks should provide insight into the academic world.

As an assistant at the Folklife Archive, you will have the opportunity to work with our collections. You will primarily work with the registration of archival materials so that they become searchable for researchers, students, and the public.

The tasks also include other archival work such as organizing, cataloging, and digitizing materials.

You will have particular responsibility for ensuring that the information is accurate and complete, as well as contributing to the archive's system for documentation and metadata. The tasks will give you experience in archival work, cultural-historical research, and administration related to university operations.

The position may involve some flexible working hours. The work is carried out in our premises at Arkivcentrum Syd. To work as an assistant, you must be a student at the Faculty of Humanities at Lund University.

Qualifications

Eligible for employment as an assistant is someone who is actively studying at the undergraduate or graduate level at the relevant faculty and who has not yet graduated.

Requirements for the position are that you:

• are studying a program at the Faculty of Humanities,
• have very good knowledge of Swedish in both spoken and written form,
• have basic computer skills,
• are meticulous and methodical.
• can work concentrated on tasks that may be repetitive.
• can work both independently and in collaboration with others.
• can combine work with studies and work certain hours/daytime without compromising your studies.

Desirable for the position is that you:

• have studied a culturally historical subject.
• have experience working in the archive or library sector.
• are familiar with digitization, metadata registration, registration, or cataloging.

Other

The employment is temporary from March 16, 2026, to August 31, 2026, and is for a maximum of 50% of full-time.

The employment must not negatively affect the assistant's studies and should not be combined with other employment. Regulations regarding educational employment as an assistant can be found in the Higher Education Ordinance (SFS 2017:284), Chapter 5, Sections 8-12.

About the Faculty of Humanities and Theology

The Faculty of Humanities and Theology has eight departments and conducts a large and varied operation within research and education. We have about 700 employees and about 4,000 full-year students.

About the Folklife Archive

The Folklife Archive with Skåne's music collections, physically located at Arkivcentrum Syd in Lund, is the only traditional archive in the country affiliated with a university. The connection between collection, research, and teaching has proven fruitful for the archive over the years. The archive, whose catchment area mainly includes southern Sweden, collects and provides material for research purposes, teaching, and the public while adapting the collection to the research questions. The archive's materials include collections, interviews, questionnaires to informants with cooperation agreements, web surveys, recordings, and photographs. A large part of the collections is digitized. An important part of the operation is to make the collections accessible to the public. The archive is contacted and visited by journalists, school classes, teachers, local historians, students, researchers, and others interested in seeking information about a specific subject area or, for example, a specific parish.

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