Corporate Archives Intern, Fall 2024 at Chubb in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Job Description:

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Chubb Archives acquires, preserves, and makes available to employees the permanent and historical records of the Chubb companies, dating to 1792. The Archives seeks a part-time intern to assist with professional and para-professional duties in the fall season (10-15 weeks). Hours per week are flexible depending on the candidate's schedule and school requirements (if any), but are anticipated to be between 8 and 15.

For this internship, we are looking for a graduate or undergraduate student interested in a career in public history (archives, museums, special libraries, etc.). The experience can be tailored somewhat to the successful applicant's education, skills, and interests, but could involve these duties:

• Assist with the digital preservation of Chubb's permanent "born-digital" records: manage web archiving; collect images and other content from a corporate intranet with enduring historical value; process (arrange/describe) permanent files for internal access; identify and test tools that can improve our digital preservation processes around such areas as acquisition, fixity, file formats, or metadata
• Process or reprocess paper business records or three-dimensional corporate memorabilia
• Index historic insurance policy certificates (dating to 19th century)
• Digitize corporate governance records, news releases, or other prioritized content
• Support collection management projects such as refoldering/rehousing, improving database descriptions, disposing of reference books, and preparing collections for a 2026 move to a new facility
• Help the corporate archivist with responding to internal requests, conducting research in our collections, and telling company history through internal blog posts, tours, exhibits, or other special projects as may arise

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  Chubb is a world leader in insurance. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance, and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling expertise and local operations globally.

  
  

  At Chubb, we are committed to equal employment opportunity and compliance with all laws and regulations pertaining to it. Our policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other conditions or opportunities of employment, without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, mental and physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, age, and pregnancy or any other characteristic protected by law. Performance and qualifications are the only basis upon which we hire, assign, promote, compensate, develop and retain employees. Chubb prohibits all unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation against any individual who reports discrimination or harassment.