[ecrea] Job Opportunity: Director of Media Archives of Central England (MACE)

Job Opportunity: Director of Media Archives of Central England (MACE)

Based at University of Lincoln (within the School of Film & Media)

For full details including Job Description: 
https://jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=MHT154

Closing Date:   Sunday 02 October 2016
Interview Date:   Monday 24 October 2016


This is an exceptional opportunity for a talented, imaginative and 
experienced individual to lead one of the UK’s foremost regional media 
archives. The new Director of MACE will lead an expert staff team and 
develop the archives as an external-facing operation. The Director will 
also work across the Schools in the University of Lincoln’s College of 
Arts and will be located primarily in the School of Film & Media. The 
post holder will form part of the College’s senior group working to 
develop a range of research, teaching, curriculum and consultancy 
projects in the broad area of Digital Archiving.


The Media Archive for Central England (MACE), based at the University of 
Lincoln since 2011, is a registered charity and an independent, 
publicly-funded, non-profit‌ company. MACE is the regional film and 
video archive for the East and West Midlands. Having moved from 
Leicester, MACE still caters for the entire region, caring for over 
70,000 moving images of the Midlands.


A registered charity, MACE exists to preserve the moving images of the 
East and West Midlands and provides affordable public access to this 
material through a bespoke website, public screenings, exhibitions, 
educational workshops and community projects. We were one of the first 
six national Accredited Archive Services in the UK and comprise a team 
of experienced professionals. MACE is governed by a board of directors 
who are also trustees of the charity. The Director of MACE reports to 
this Board as well as to the Head of the College of Arts, and is 
employed by the University.


The main functions of the Director’s role are:


•        To oversee the continued strategic development of MACE as an 
engaged and significant partner in the UK’s cultural audiovisual framework;

•        To contribute to the University’s mission by ensuring that MACE 
is embedded as a significant and active resource for research and teaching;

•        To be responsible to the Company Board and Charity Trustees for 
the development and delivery of every aspect of the activity of the 
Media Archive of Central England Ltd.


For further details about MACE please go to: 
http://www.macearchive.org/about-mace.html

For further details about the University, please visit 
www.lincoln.ac.uk<http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/>

Interviews will be held at the University of Lincoln on Monday 24th 
October 2016

If you would like to discuss the post before applying, please email Head 
of School of Film & Media, Sarah Barrow, to arrange a phone 
conversation: (sbarrow /at/ lincoln.ac.uk)


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