Digital Archivist

Job Posting Title:

Digital Archivist

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Hiring Department:

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Position Open To:

All Applicants

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Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

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FLSA Status:

Exempt

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Earliest Start Date:

Aug 02, 2024

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Position Duration:

Expected to Continue

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Location:

UT MAIN CAMPUS

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Job Details:

General Notes

Occasional evenings and weekends for special events as needed.

Purpose

Oversee the appraisal, processing, preservation, description of and access to born digital and digitized archival materials.

Responsibilities

• Appraise, preserve, describe, and provide access to primary source digital materials, both born digital and digital content created in house.
• Develop and document policies and procedures for stewardship of digital materials, including email, websites, social media as well as material residing on current or legacy formats.
• Participate in center-wide activities, collaborative working groups, and other center committees as assigned.
• Keep abreast of current trends in digital preservation theory, standards and technologies and lead evaluation and implementation of tools, standards and systems related to digital stewardship and metadata management.
• Manage the staff in the Digital Archives Unit.
• Represent the Briscoe Center and University Archive in collaborative campus wide digital stewardship efforts.
• Meet and communicate with donors to facilitate collection development and acquisition process and assist in transferring archival collections to the Center, with some occasional travel as needed.
• Work in the reading room regularly and respond to reference inquiries from a wide variety of individuals and entities. 

Required Qualifications

• Masters degree in Information Science, Information Studies, History or other closely related field with a concentration in archival enterprise.
• 1-2 years working with digital material in an archival setting.
• Strong technical expertise with digital objects in a library or cultural heritage organization.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with digital stewardship issues, tools, standards, and best practices.
• Familiarity with metadata standards relevant to archival collections.
• Demonstrated commitment to a collaborative work environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Archivist designation.
• Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) certificate from the Society of American Archivists
• Experience planning and managing a digital preservation program.
• Supervisory experience.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Experience designing and managing complex projects.
• Demonstrated ability to create solutions for problems, negotiate difficult situations, motivate staff, and maintain a productive harmonious work environment.
• Ability to embrace ambiguity in a changing environment and be committed to continual professional development, improvement and learning.
• Experience leading collaborative initiatives in a highly distributed environment.
• Experience working with Preservica.
• Experience working with Drupal based open source digital objects repositories like Islandora and Archipelago.

Salary Range

$59,000

Working Conditions

• May work around standard office conditions
• Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation
• Use of manual dexterity
• Climbing of ladders
• Lifting and moving up to 50lbs
• Will be exposed to book dust and book mold

Work Shift

• Occasional evenings and weekends for special events as needed.

Required Materials

• Resume/CV
• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
• Letter of interest

Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-