Vacancies & Volunteering

Job title: Governance and Grants Officer
Location: Burlington House, London
Reporting to: General Secretary (CEO)
Contract length: Permanent post
Salary: £25,000 (pro-rata of £35,714 fte)
Hours: 24.5 hours per week (0.7 fte)

Job purpose:
The Society of Antiquaries is seeking a Governance and Grants Officer to provide a full range of governance support and services to the Society’s Council, committees, Fellows and other stakeholders. The post-holder will also coordinate the Society’s grants programme, which is of great importance to our charitable and academic activity. The post calls for a high degree of confidentiality and discretion. The Governance and Grants Officer will provide:

• Support for the governance of the Society;
• Administrative support for the Society’s grants programmes;
• Administration for the election process of new Fellows;

For full details, download the Job Pack:

• Job Description
• General Information for Applicants
• Application Form
• Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form
• Job Applicant Privacy Notice

How to Apply:

Applicants must complete an application form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form which should be sent to: [email protected]

Deadline: 23.59pm Sunday 15 December 2024.
Interviews will be held on Thursday 9 January 2025.

If you have any specific queries about the role, please email Natasha McEnroe, General Secretary, at [email protected]

We are unable to provide feedback to applicants who are not invited to interview.

We are looking for a team of online volunteers to help us increase the accessibility and discoverability of some of the Society’s digitised material.

Currently we have two very exciting projects – the Society’s minute books, which are already available online, and our collection of early 20th century glass slides, which we have only just begun to digitise.

Indexing the minute books will involve using the existing indexes as well as the digital images of the minutes to create searchable content including names of Fellows who were elected, details of papers read and items exhibited. It would be helpful if you could read 18th/19th century handwriting – have a look at some of the items on the catalogue at https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02 to get a feel for them. You will also need to be comfortable with navigating information in large Word documents.

The glass slides are mostly labelled so we don’t expect you to be able to recognise every cathedral doorway, only to record the existing descriptions – unless of course you have additional knowledge! The current batch of c 3,500 slides seems to cover English church architecture almost exclusively. You can see the currently digitised slides at this link.

Full training will be given for both projects – the Archivist will offer training sessions on Zoom as well as detailed written guidelines. There will be a small test project to complete to see if you enjoy the task, so don’t hesitate to sign up and try it out. The time commitment will be up to you and can be as little as a few hours a week.

Please email [email protected] with your details and which of the two projects (or both!) you are interested in. We very much appreciate your help!