Culture, Innlandet County Archives/IKA Opplandene KO
Lillehammer, Norge
Type of Employment Full-time
Job position Advisors - user services and communication
Work model On location
Application due date 16 June 2026
Are you the one?

We are looking for several employees who can fill different roles within user services and communication. Are you keen to ensure that archive users have good websites or easily accessible information? Do you think communication on social media is great? If so, one of our positions may be for you!

About the section

Inland County Archives manages older and closed archives, coordinates private archives and provides archival guidance to municipalities, companies and organizations. We work to ensure that the region's social memory is documented, preserved and accessible for posterity.

The county archive was established in 1995 and is now the country's largest county archive. Since 2008, we have hosted the municipal task community IKA Opplandene, which manages analog and digital archives from 50 participating municipalities in Innlandet and Akershus. The county archive's more than 30 employees make up a competence environment for archives in technical, archival and historical parts of the field, and we contribute to archive development and strategy work in the sector. In addition to the management of historical information, we assist the participating municipalities with skills development and ensure good documentation management through, for example, archive architecture, archive planning and preservation plans. The county archive has a large contact surface both inside and outside the organization and participates in many regional and national collaborations in addition to accessibility and dissemination directly to citizens.

In addition to responsibility for municipal and county archives, we have a coordinating role for private archive work in Inland Norway.

We now have several unfilled positions after several years of recruitment stops and employees who have retired. We are therefore looking for several profiles that can fill various roles in the fields of user services and dissemination. The tasks in the positions will be adapted to the individual's expertise and skills, and may vary between the different roles.

We are looking for candidates with different backgrounds to fill different roles. The positions may involve tasks within dissemination, editorial work, advice/guidance, case management and cataloging. The tasks are many and varied, so we would like you to describe in your application text what you would like to work with.

Tasks

The tasks fall under different themes, and it is possible to combine positions across these.

If you want to work with dissemination tasks, you can, for example, work with articles about the archives, digital and analog exhibitions, be an editor for our websites and SoMe, or contribute to the development of new ways we can communicate. You could play an important role in developing and communicating relevant content to different target groups.

Under the theme of advice and guidance, you can provide training and professional support to both archive creators and users. You will work with retrieval and case management of requests in both digital and analog archives and make archival and legal assessments.

We constantly have new projects and here you may have the opportunity to try your hand as a project manager.

We also need professional quality assurance, internal superuser in the case/archive system and solution architect in office support tools from MS365

Regardless of composition, participation in the section's other activities and other incidental tasks is expected.

You must have

  • Higher education, preferably at master's level/minimum bachelor's degree, in a relevant field (e.g. archives, cultural history, history, administrative informatics, digital humanities, law, digital communication and library science)
  • Solid practical experience can compensate for educational requirements
  • Good digital skills

We would like you to have several of these

  • Experience with historical archives
  • Experience from dissemination work on various social media and websites
  • Good knowledge of relevant legislation and guidelines
  • Good communication and communication skills
  • . and communication skills
  • Good knowledge of public administration
  • Practice from documentation management
  • Knowledge of media conversion and file formats
  • Knowledge of archive management in professional systems and public shared solutions
  • Updated knowledge of standards used in an archive context
  • Good knowledge of the products in MS365
  • Driver's license class B


You can be described with at least four of these characteristics

  • You are a relationship builder with good collaboration skills and service attitude
  • You work well in teams, but also alone
  • You are accurate, structured, efficient and quality-conscious
  • You are creative and have an eye for detail
  • You acquire new knowledge quickly and are flexible and willing to change
  • You are an initiator and driver with great implementation skills
  • You have the ability to find good solutions
  • You are good at prioritizing tasks
  • You have good communication skills in Norwegian, both written and oral

Personal suitability will be emphasized


About the position

  • The section is based at Fakkelgården in Lillehammer, but we can offer various forms of flexibility for those with the right skills
  • Candidates with supervisory tasks are expected to go on supervision/inspection to our member municipalities, lead courses and conferences, as well as give lectures
  • Those who are appointed to the positions will be placed in a position code depending on education and experience, cf. law and agreements. law and agreements.

We offer

  • Exciting, challenging and developing tasks in the country's largest county archive
  • A professional working environment with skilled knowledge workers
  • Professional updating and personal development through participation in courses and conferences
  • Salary and working conditions in accordance with agreements
  • Good pension scheme, welfare schemes and flexible working hours

Possibilities for working from home up to two days a week

Application

Inland County Council wants its workforce to reflect the diversity of the population and therefore encourages everyone who is qualified according to the announcement text to apply to us. We adapt the workplace if you need it. Personal suitability will be emphasized.

We never ask for Bank ID information in the application process.

A police certificate - no older than three months - is required for all positions in the dental health service, folk high schools and upper secondary schools.

Please note that all applicants will be included on the public list of applicants, cf. Section 25 of the Freedom of Information Act. Exemption from publication is only made in exceptional cases and you must justify why you should be exempt from public disclosure in the text field of the application.

The county municipality is a business in development and change. Tasks, areas of responsibility and organization will therefore develop and change in line with the needs of the organization.

We reserve the right to give preference to redundant employees in the county council.

The county council uses an electronic application form.

We look forward to receiving your application.


Link to application form: Apply here