Job description
Join a leading records and digital preservation team dedicated to safeguarding institutional memory. We are seeking an Archivist who combines traditional archival skills with modern digital preservation practices to manage, describe, and provide trusted access to our growing collections. This role blends research, data stewardship, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure long-term accessibility and governance of both physical and digital assets.
As part of our team, you will shape metadata standards, oversee preservation workflows, and partner with IT, curators, and researchers to deliver reliable finding aids and secure access for stakeholders.
Responsibility
- Develop and implement archival workflows for appraisal, accessioning, description, and cataloging of physical and digital materials.
- Manage digital preservation strategies, metadata capture (Dublin Core, PREMIS) and format migration planning.
- Administer and optimize ArchivesSpace or similar systems; oversee EAD encoding and metadata mapping.
- Coordinate digitization projects, quality assurance, and file naming/structuring standards.
- Ensure access controls, security, and compliance with records management policies and privacy regulations.
- Provide reference assistance and outreach; create user-friendly finding aids and access tools.
- Collaborate with IT and vendors on backups, storage optimization, and disaster recovery planning.
Qualification
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Library and Information Science, Archival Studies, or a related field.
- 3+ years of archival experience with digital preservation and metadata creation.
- Proficiency with archival systems (ArchivesSpace, CONTENTdm, Islandora) and metadata standards (Dublin Core, PREMIS, MARC).
- Experience with digitization workflows, file formats, quality control.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to manage competing priorities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to collaborate across departments.
- Familiarity with data governance, privacy considerations, and disaster recovery planning.
- Experience with XML, XSLT, and basic scripting is a plus.