Intangible and Digital Heritage Consultant
The National Trust looks after one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of art and heritage objects set within their historic context. As ideas around heritage change enveloping not only the tangible but intangible heritage. We realise our duty of care extends beyond objects to the non-physical heritage such as folklore, traditions, and language that make our sights so unique. In addition we recognise the increasing amount of born digital material that will one day become the heritage of the future. We are therefore looking for a person to help us collect, manage, and curate the intangible and digital heritage of our sites in the region.
We expect this person to be experienced in collecting, managing and curating intangible heritage such as oral histories and be confident in their digital skills.
What it’s like to work here
The National Trust Consultancy is home to specialists in every field of our work. It’s a place where resources are shared across disciplines and boundaries, and it’s a great repository of skills, talent and experience. The diversity and quality of expertise within the Consultancy enable our properties and places to benefit from creative and innovative thinking, as well as deep expertise in all matters relating to our twin purpose of caring for the nation’s heritage and landscapes and making these accessible to all. The Intangible and Digital Heritage Consultant role sits within the Consultancy.
What you’ll be doing
You will be advising sites on their collecting and managing of intangible and digital heritage, supporting them during their intangible heritage projects and organising the collection of object metadata for surrogate collections. You will work between regional IT and the sites to ensure the needs of sites are considered, while simultaneously ensuring IT is able to keep a secure and stable digital infrastructure. You will also manage relationships with third party archives, to help guarantee access to material for staff and volunteers.
You will also provide tactical and strategic advice to the sites on how move modern opperation files to the archive, while also ensuring sites adhere to the National Trust policies around climate friendly storage.
Who we’re looking for
- excellent communications skills: verbal, written and presenting
- developing and delivering an internal communication (or similar) strategy and plan
- proven experience of communicating appropriately with a wide range of colleagues in different roles
- being a brilliant networker and influencer
- great project management skills, ideally including some experience of event management
- extensive experience of successfully managing diverse and varied workloads with tight timeframes and budgets
- being an excellent multi-tasker and self-starter
- excellent IT skills, including a good working knowledge of Microsoft, Sharepoint
Update meeting on Intangible and Digital heritage at Seaton Delaval Hall
26/09/2028
13:00
Seaton Delaval Hall
Participants
General Manager
Regional Curator
Project Lead
Intangible and Digital Heritage Consultant
Agenda
Introduction
Status Update
Discussion Topic 1: Dialect dictionary
Discussion Topic 2: Auction Items
Decision 1: Film Archive
Agenda for next meeting
Summary
Everything is ready to go with Storyland. Three institutional oral history recordings taken. Student project for a dialect dictionary is on track. Possibly will lose out on Garden Painting at Auction but metadata collected. Need to revisit somethings in Film Archive arrangement.
- Institutional Oral History
- Interview done with retiring cafe staff member
- Interview done with Gardening volunteer and Research group volunteer
- Possible follow up needed for gardening volunteer
- Not got copyright yet from research group volunteer
- Need to organise Oral history sessions with recent student project
- Storyland
- Everything is ready for 1st October
- Food trucks have been booked
- Storyteller was asking for some extra tickets
- Dialect dictionary
- Student has managed to get funding for archive visits
- Need to grant access to on site oral history recordings
- Need to find illustrator
- Rainham used a good illustrator
- Auction items
- Mahogany chairs
- Photographer has been arranged
- Curator says likely to win chairs
- Garden Painting
- Unlikely to win
- Meta-data already been collected
- Mahogany chairs
- Film Archive
- IT very enthusiastic
- Do we want to donate all material?
- Unsure about footage taken by volunteer
- Another meeting with General manager and Intangible and Digital Heritage Consultant
- Agenda for next meeting
- Update on Film archive
- Oral history interviews with students secured
- Progress on Dialect Dictionary
- Summer project 2029
- Adaptive release plan
Decisions
| Decision | Notes |
| Dialect Dictionary Illustrator | Using the illustrator Rainham |
| Donating (some) items to Film Archive | Definitely happy to donate some material but unsure about some footage take by volunteer. |
Actions
| Action | Person | Deadline |
| Contact students for Oral History interview | Project Lead | Within the next three months |
| Check with interviewer of gardening volunteer if they think another interview is required | General Manager | As soon as possible |
| Send extra tickets to storyteller | Project Lead | By the end of the week |
| Talk to volunteer about archiving film footage | General Manager | Before meeting with film archive |
| Arrange another meeting with film archive | Intangible and Digital Heritage Consultant | Within a month |