Job description
Join a leading institution focused on preserving cultural heritage and institutional records. We are seeking a Digital Archivist to manage born-digital and digitized materials, oversee metadata governance, and ensure long-term access.
In this role, you will collaborate with historians, IT specialists, and curators to design scalable preservation workflows, implement metadata standards, and support discovery platforms used by researchers worldwide.
Responsibility
- Develop and implement digital preservation workflows for ingest, processing, and access.
- Manage archival metadata in ArchivesSpace or similar system; ensure compliance with PREMIS, Dublin Core, and METS/ALTO standards.
- Oversee digitization projects, quality assurance, OCR/text extraction, and file format validation.
- Collaborate with IT to maintain storage, backups, and disaster recovery for archived assets.
- Design and enforce data governance policies, access controls, and retention schedules.
- Create and maintain finding aids, catalog entries, and exposure in discovery portals.
- Provide guidance to researchers and staff on access procedures and rights.
Qualification
- Bachelor's in Library Science, Information Management, or related field; master's preferred.
- 3+ years of experience in digital archives, digital preservation, or library science.
- Experience with archival management systems (ArchivesSpace) and metadata standards (PREMIS, Dublin Core, METS/MODS).
- Strong understanding of digitization workflows, OCR, image and textual data quality, and file format validation.
- Knowledge of information governance, retention schedules, and access control policies.
- Excellent attention to detail, organizational and project management skills; ability to work cross-functionally.
- Strong communication skills and ability to translate archival concepts to non specialists.