JOB: Archivist for Digital Initiatives (Loyola Notre Dame)

From the announcement:

The Loyola Notre Dame Library seeks an innovative and collaborative individual to lead the development of a program for accessioning, processing, preserving, and providing access to digital materials in Archives and Special Collections. Reporting to the Head of Archives and Special Collections, the Archivist for Digital Initiatives’ role includes planning, policy development, managing platforms and tools, creating metadata, and collaboration on related outreach and public services initiatives. The successful candidate will be creative, flexible, and enthusiastic about serving our two university communities through increased access to and robust preservation of digital materials.

Position Responsibilities:

• Develop, document, and implement procedures for accessioning, arranging, describing, and providing access to born-digital materials according to professional standards

• Arrange and describe both analog and born-digital archival materials

• Develop, document, and implement policies and procedures for the preservation of digital materials

• Collaborate with library colleagues to develop metadata supporting the discovery and management of digital content

• Collaborate with library colleagues to support digital scholarship initiatives at our two member institutions

• Supervise in-house and outsourced digitization projects

• Contribute to Archives-oriented outreach, including social media, library website, presentations, and exhibits

• Perform liaison duties to promote services and resources to faculty

• Supervise, train, and evaluate student assistants, interns, and/or volunteers

• Perform other duties as assigned