Job description
Join Northwest Heritage Archives as a Senior Digital Archivist. This role leads the digital preservation program, guiding the acquisition, organization, preservation, and access of born-digital and digitized materials for research and public engagement.
You will shape long-term strategies for metadata, repository management, and preservation workflows, ensuring our collections remain authentic, accessible, and usable for generations to come.
Responsibility
- Lead the development and execution of digital preservation strategies for born-digital and digitized materials.
- Oversee ingestion, metadata creation, and accessioning in the repository (ArchivesSpace / CONTENTdm / Islandora, etc.).
- Define and implement metadata standards (Dublin Core, PREMIS, METS) and perform metadata quality control.
- Collaborate with IT, curatorial staff, and library partners to plan migrations, backups, and disaster recovery.
- Manage digitization projects, QA workflows, OCR processing, and image enhancement for long-term accessibility.
- Develop access strategies and user services for internal teams and external researchers.
- Monitor collections for risks, perform preservation actions, and document workflows for reproducibility.
Qualification
- Master's degree in Library Science, Information Science, History, or a related field; equivalent work experience considered.
- 5+ years of archives management experience with emphasis on digital archives and preservation.
- Hands-on experience with digital repositories such as ArchivesSpace, Islandora, CONTENTdm, or Preservica.
- Strong knowledge of metadata standards (Dublin Core, PREMIS, METS, EAD) and metadata modeling.
- Proficiency in XML, XML schemas, and file formats; experience with data migration and preservation workflows.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, collaboration across departments, and project management skills.
- Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving abilities and the ability to manage multiple priorities.