Digital Archives Specialist

7 days ago


Austin, Texas, United States University of Texas at Austin Full time

Job Overview

The University of Texas at Austin is seeking a skilled Digital Archivist to oversee the appraisal, processing, preservation, description of and access to born digital and digitized archival materials.

About the Role

This position involves working with digital material in an archival setting, requiring strong technical expertise and knowledge of digital stewardship issues, tools, standards, and best practices.

Salary

The estimated annual salary for this role is $59,000.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Appraise, preserve, describe, and provide access to primary source digital materials, both born digital and digital content created in house.
  2. 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.
  3. Participate in center-wide activities, collaborative working groups, and other center committees as assigned.
  4. 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.
  5. Manage the staff in the Digital Archives Unit.
  6. Represent the Briscoe Center and University Archive in collaborative campus-wide digital stewardship efforts.
  7. 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.
  8. Work in the reading room regularly and respond to reference inquiries from a wide variety of individuals and entities.

Requirements

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

Benefits

  • The University of Texas at Austin offers a comprehensive benefits package to its employees.
  • Staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting.
  • The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

Contact Us

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