Assistant Digital Asset Manager

How You'll Contribute

The Assistant Digital Asset Manager supports the Digital Asset Manager with organizing, cataloging, curating, and archiving NGS digital assets including videos, photos, documents, and other media files. The Assistant Digital Asset Manager helps support and enhance the goals and mission of Special Collections by assisting to catalog, promote and share the collected visual assets with NGS, our media partners, and other end users. This includes researching rights and clearance information, creating accurate descriptions and precise keywording, providing final quality assurance of media before ingesting assets into the Society's digital asset management system and updating grants system and internal constituencies. The Assistant Digital Asset Manager will follow proper collection policies, guidelines, and workflows when dealing with NGS digital media files.

This is a fixed-term position with an end date of 12/31/31.

Your Impact

Responsibilities Include

Cataloging (70%)

• Under supervision of the Digital Asset Manager, the Assistant Digital Asset Manager will be responsible for cataloging, including writing full captions of all media assets going into the NGS Digital Asset Management (DAM) system. Attention to detail is paramount (grammar, punctuation, formatting). This will include working with media contributors to research and obtain knowledge about the area and project.

• Help maintain metadata standards, ensuring accurate and consistent tagging and cataloging for easy searchability and discoverability.

• Ensure digital assets are following established protocols.

• Prepare media assets by adding complete metadata (including keywords, credit line, project number, asset usage codes) for usage in the NGS DAM.
   

Ingest and (Fulfillment 30%)

• Assist with verifying and cross-checking assets being uploaded into NGS DAM, verifying assets are ready and available for NGS DAM users.

• Assist with the ingesting of media content into DAM.

• Assist with creating video and photo collections for internal/external requests.

What You'll Bring

Educational Background

Bachelor's degree

Minimum Years and Types of Experience

3+ years of video and/or  Must show evidence of previous media asset experience and understanding of digital/social media.

Necessary Knowledge and Skills

• Familiarity with DAM software

• Understanding of file formats, metadata tagging, and digital media workflows.

• Attention to detail, ability to understand and prioritize multiple requests from different team members

• Must be comfortable asking questions, creative, highly organized, and motivated

• Comfort with ambiguity and problem-solving skills

• Must be capable of exercising flexibility, multitasking and working effectively with others

• Knowledge of Premiere, Bridge, Lightroom and Photoshop, strongly preferred

• Familiarity with video file types, generating proxies

• Understand metadata workflow and delivery

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Ability to interact positively and productively with teams across organizational lines

• Strong customer service, troubleshooting and problem solving

Supervision

No direct reports

Salary Information

The National Geographic Society offers a competitive and holistic total rewards package. Our compensation structure and transparent pay philosophy are based on industry-specific market data for similar-sized nonprofit organizations.

The salary range for this position accounts for a wide range of factors including but not limited to organizational need; specific skill sets; experience and training; certifications; and more. At the National Geographic Society, individuals are typically hired at or near the starting point of the salary range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

The salary range for this position is $60, $64,000.00.

In addition, the National Geographic Society offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package that includes, but is not limited to, medical, dental, and vision insurance; engaging and comprehensive wellness program; 401(k) retirement savings plan with matching contributions after 6 months of employment; flexible paid time off benefits with up to 22 days of paid annual leave per calendar year (15 days for new hires in their first year, prorated based on the number of pay periods remaining in the year) and 10 days of sick leave; 12 paid holidays and a paid winter break between December 25 and 31 (May not apply to all roles that are required to work during high volume seasons or essential workers. Please check with the hiring manager for confirmation.); paid parental leave, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility benefits; learning and development opportunities; Lifestyle Spending Account; pet adoption assistance and insurance; pre-tax transportation benefits with a generous employer subsidy; employer-paid life insurance and disability benefit; and a variety of National Geographic discounts and perks.

Job Designation

Hybrid - At the Society, we believe in the advantages of coming together to build community, mentor and learn from colleagues, and connect more deeply with our mission. As a result, the majority of our staff are Hybrid. Our Hybrid category requires that staff work at Base Camp two days each week: every Tuesday and Wednesday. Hybrid staff are also always welcome to come in additional days each week if preferred.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

We encourage you to apply even if your experience is not a 100% match with the position. We are looking for someone with relevant skills and experience, not a checklist that exactly matches the job description. We want to help you grow and in return, you help us grow into a stronger, more inclusive organization. 

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