Vacancy for Digital Archivist & Coordinator at the Digital Repository of Ireland
The Digital Preservation Coalition is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Digital Archivist & Coordinator to support our work in digital preservation. This role will focus on the 'Digital Preservation of Reproductive Health Resources: Archiving the 8th' project.
Key Responsibilities:
* Project Management: Lead project planning, project reporting, metrics collection, event organisation, project communication and dissemination.
* Digital Asset Preparation: Hands-on preparation, metadata annotation and enrichment, data ingestion into the DRI repository of organisational datasets.
* External Stakeholder Engagement: Coordinate with external organisations who hold relevant collections, provide training and assistance with archival workflows, collection management hands-on tasks identified above.
* Event Organisation: Organise events such as public collection days, community engagement events, and educational/dissemination events.
* Team Collaboration: Participate in DRI staff and project meetings, DRI cross-functional Task Forces, and other DRI activities as assigned.
Requirements:
* Qualifications: A degree level qualification in library, information or archival studies or a same level qualification in a related discipline.
* Expertise: Expertise in cataloguing specialist subjects with established metadata standards or working with taxonomies/vocabularies/ontologies.
* Experience: A minimum of 2 years experience with project management and/or organising events including their administration, budgeting, planning and delivery.
* Skillset: Excellent oral and written communications skills, ability to develop and provide training on specific topics at the level required.
* Personal Qualities: Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deliver to deadlines, excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to operate flexibly as a member of this cross-disciplinary team.