Robert Parry

I am a graduate in Archives and Records Management, seeking opportunities to gain practical experience in a team setting. I have experience holding administrative, records management, and customer service duties.

Mail Sorter at Mail Metrics (2025-04 – 2026-08)

• Working individually and as part of a team to appraise and process incoming and outgoing documents.
• Using machinery, scanning equipment, and database software to identify, sort, label, and record documents.
• Working quickly and consistently through material presented in an unorganised and irregular manner.
• Responsibly handling both privacy concerns and the hazards found in a warehouse environment.
• Training others in the safe and effective execution of the duties involved.

Local Studies Assistant (Voluntary Position) at Denby Dale Library (2024-02 – Present)

• Cataloguing, researching, and describing library holdings related to the history of the village.
• Improving the accessibility and usability of material and identifying areas in which it can hold value for users.
• Realising this value through the creation of finding aids and assistance in the organisation of exhibitions.

Records Manager at St. Antony’s College (2023-02 – 2023-08)

• Investigating, listing, and where necessary arranging the holdings of an Oxford college, with the ultimate aim of establishing a college-wide records management system.
• Appraising and listing unorganised historical material; creating a searchable database to store this information.
• Surveying and modelling the creation, maintenance, and use of records by individual departments of the college, and using this information to create functional analyses and retention schedules.
• Understanding legislation relating to privacy, transparency, and accessibility to which the college was beholden, and making recommendations as to how this legislation could be best upheld.
• Conducting and presenting research into administrative practices and the use of record-keeping technologies within the university and other higher education institutions.
• Communicating the value and importance of records management to other members of staff at the college.

Records Management Assistant (Temporary Position) at University of Liverpool (2022-06 – 2022-09)

• Assisting in processing a backlog of university records, with a focus upon medical and financial documents.
• Using the TULIP interface to identify and log changes made to relevant records.
• Physically preparing files for transfer to a destruction facility.
• Handling records to a standard consistent with data protection laws, the university’s information management policy, and broader principles of responsible processing and preservation.
• Maintaining a broad level of familiarity with the administrative practices of a large institution, in order to recognise potentially significant or anomalous items within the collection.

Archive Assistant (Academic Placement) at Northumberland Estates (2022-01 – 2022-01)

• Assisting in the itemisation and digital cataloguing of manorial records dating back to the sixteenth century.
• Handling, interpreting, and summarising fragile and complicated historical documents.
• Developing a system for cataloguing the records which accommodated prior research and relevant standards..
• Using CALM to input this information into a digital catalogue.
• Creating a finding aid to assist in the use of the material by researchers.

Archive Assistant (Voluntary Position) at N.A.E.A. (2019-11 – 2023-01)

• Digitising and cataloguing audio material related to the history of education in the West Riding.
• Understanding and following the procedures involved in safely handling the archive material and correctly operating the equipment used to digitise it.
• Developing a system to efficiently, accessibly, and consistently catalogue the digitised material.

Customer Assistant at Morrisons Waterloo (2018-11 – 2021-07)

• Managing a varied and shifting workload in a busy, time-sensitive environment.
• Maintaining appropriate standards of safety and hygiene whilst working with food, chemicals, and hazards.
• Using strong interpersonal skills to provide a high standard of customer service and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues.

MA in Archives and Records Management – University of Liverpool (2021-09 – 2022-09)

BA in History & Hispanic Studies (Hons.) – University of Liverpool (2014-09 – 2018-07)

Level 5 Spanish – University of Buenos Aires (2016-09 – 2017-05)

A/AS-Levels – Greenhead College (2012 – 2014)

A Levels

English Language - A

English Literature - B

History - B

AS Levels

English Language - A

English Literature - A

History - B

Philosophy - B

Spanish - B

GCSEs – Shelley College (2009 – 2012)

Biology - A

Chemistry - A

English Language - A

English Literature - A

Geography - B

History - A

ICT - Distinction

Mathematics - A

Media Studies - A

Physics - A

Religious Studies - B

Spanish - A