Digital Repository Specialist

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Job Description

SUMMARY:

Reporting to the Director, New Jersey Center for Indigenous Justice (NJCIJ), the Digital Repository Specialist is and half-time (50% FTE) position that acts as the point of contact for all communication, fundraising, events, and data findings. The role also gathers highlights and contextualizes the unique questions facing Montclair’s Indigenous students and NJ’s tribal communities. In collaboration with IT Services and members of the Native American and Indigenous Studies faculty, the Digital Repository Specialist, NJCIJ designs, constructs, and maintains a digital repository of vital historical and related materials that support the sovereignty and communal wellbeing of NJ’s tribes. The Repository Specialist supports access to repository collections by tribal members, MSU faculty and students, and outside researchers.

**Continued employment in this position is contingent upon the project's duration, workload needs, and available funding.**

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build the new digital repository for MSU’s NJCIJ, beginning with the current collections that are still in the early stages of development, including: the Vivian Milligan Collection, the Ramapough Cemetery Collection, and Ceremonial Stone Landscapes Collection.

• Generate effective and efficient digital preservation materials, respect relevant cultural protocols, establish a multi-tiered approach to the collections (pertaining to levels of access and confidentiality), and enact MOUs with partners as needed.

• Draft, revise, and ensure compliance with Center policies related to the gathering, holding, and disseminating of Indigenous knowledge contained in the repository.

• Oversee the growth of the repository by serving as primary liaison with tribal partners in building and managing the repository, including the addition of new collections.

• Serve as the primary liaison with the MSU IT Department to perfect the digitization process, digital storage and preservation on MSU servers, and migration to an open access content management system for various levels of public access.

• Assume primary responsibility for promoting and elevating the profile of the repository, both within and beyond MSU, ensuring that the NJCIJ Digital Repository becomes part of a national network of Indigenous-materials digital collections available to both individual and institutional users.

• Recruit and supervise students to assist with the collections.

• Collaborate with NAIS and other relevant faculty to integrate the use of Repository materials in MSU courses, faculty research, and student projects.

• Maintain essential records and files as needed.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Management retains the right to change or add job duties at any time.

QUALIFICATIONS:

REQUIRED: 

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in digital collection’s management, or a related field.

• Minimum three (3) years of professional experience in materials assessment and collection, or a related field.

• Ability to create and manage complex, multi-series collections of repository materials.

• Experience with digital content management, storage, and access.

• Demonstrated knowledge of ethical principles and practices specific to Indigenous knowledge and cultural materials.

• Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and accessibility to staff and students in support of their academic success a