Vacancy for Assistant Archivist at RTÉ Archives
RTÉ is Ireland's national public service media organisation. A leader in Irish media, RTÉ provides comprehensive, cost-effective, free-to-air multi-media services to the public in Ireland and interested audiences internationally.
RTÉ Archives house Ireland's largest audiovisual collection and are responsible for collecting, preserving and making accessible the creative and documentary output of the national broadcaster.
Key Responsibilities:
* To deliver daily targets defined for all pre and post digitisation activities.
* To continuously look for ways to improve the efficiency of all processes and put forward constructive suggestions.
* To work in other areas of the RTÉ Archives as may be required.
* To participate in the overall development of the Archives when needed.
Main Activities:
1. Hands-on picking, cleaning where required, labelling, packing and manual handling of physical carriers before transport to digitisation service providers.
2. Diligent input of all data as required.
3. Ingest activities and quality checks of the digital content post digitisation.
4. Regular and proactive reports on progress with all activities.