Job description
Heritage Digital Archive, Inc. is a forward thinking organization dedicated to preserving culture and knowledge. We seek a Senior Archivist to lead digital and physical archiving initiatives, shape metadata standards, and ensure enduring access to our collections.
In this role you will collaborate with IT, curators, researchers, and vendors to design scalable archival workflows, implement robust preservation strategies, and deliver accurate finding aids to users worldwide.
Responsibility
- Lead the design and execution of digital and physical archive programs, including intake, appraisal, and disposition planning.
- Develop and enforce metadata standards such as Dublin Core, MODS, and PREMIS, plus controlled vocabularies.
- Oversee archival metadata ingest, cataloging, and authority control within ArchivesSpace and related systems; manage ingest pipelines.
- Implement digital preservation strategies including format migrations, bit level preservation, and storage redundancy.
- Create and maintain finding aids, inventories, and access policies; support researchers and external partners.
- Collaborate with IT on storage, backups, security, disaster recovery, and vendor management.
- Develop retention schedules, privacy guidelines, and access controls to ensure legal and ethical compliance.
- Provide training and mentorship to junior staff; establish performance metrics and process improvements.
Qualification
- Master’s degree in Library and Information Science, Archival Studies, or related field; or equivalent professional experience.
- 3+ years of archival experience with digital preservation and physical archives management.
- Hands on experience with ArchivesSpace, Archivematica, Islandora, or CONTENTdm.
- Strong knowledge of metadata standards including Dublin Core, MODS, PREMIS; EAD is a plus.
- Excellent project management, organizational, and communication skills; ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Ability to collaborate with IT, curators, researchers, and external vendors; customer service oriented.
- Familiarity with privacy laws, copyright considerations, and access control policies; basic understanding of FOIA is a plus.
- Experience in creating and maintaining finding aids, policy development, and budget management.