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Global Marketing uses creativity and business flair to help drive top-line revenue growth for our global businesses by optimising marketplace opportunities, our brand strength, and customer insight.

Our Brand team leads our efforts to create brand consistency whilst enabling innovation to open new opportunities for our businesses. By developing, implementing, and maintaining guidelines, tools, and assets, they keep our brand consistent, powerful, and impactful.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as an Archivist, Asia Pacific.

Principal Responsibilities

In this role you will

Growing and improving access to the archive collections. This involves BAU work on collecting, appraising, ingesting, cataloguing, preventative preservation, tracking and digitising records to ensure they are accessible in perpetuityPlanning and delivering specialist collections management programmes as directed (e.g. cataloguing improvement work, scanning projects). Supporting the annual collecting plans (e.g. taking responsibility for specific departments, carrying out manual collection of online content)Conducting detailed historical research to respond to enquiries from academics, genealogists, journalists, local historians, special interest groups etc. This also includes retrieving records and supervising visiting researchersDeliver tours and history presentations at the HK Archive Centre for employees, clients and other stakeholdersSupporting the heritage and engagement programme (e.g. History website, social media content, tours and presentations, employee induction courses, temporary exhibitions, anniversary celebrations). This involves research, content development, writing and public speaking – based on in-depth knowledge of the bank’s history and archivesImplements policies and procedures that increase accessibility to the bank’s historical archives (e.g. catalogues records in the Global Digital Archive system in accordance with HSBC’s cataloguing standards)Provides specialist expertise to permanently preserve physical archives and research and historical knowledgeDevelops strong relationships with other colleagues in Archives and the Brand function in order to facilitate execution of Archives activities and keeps up-to-date with latest professional research and techniques, in order to execute work to world-class standards