#JobOpening Digital Asset Manager & Project Lead - Wiener Holocaust Library, UK

#JobOpening Digital Asset Manager & Project Lead - Wiener Holocaust Library, UK

Full-time, permanent role based in Central London, WC1

Salary: £34-36k depending on experience

Start date: December 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter

Responsible to: Director and Head of Collections

Deadline for Applications: 30 October 2022 (23:59)

Interviews: 4 November 2022

The Wiener Holocaust Library is the world’s oldest Holocaust archive and the home of Britain’s largest collection of published and unpublished works, documents and photographs relating to the Nazi era. In the past three years the library has undergone a process of transformation through closely integrating digital technology, digitised archive materials, web and social media marketing into its activities.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The Library is now looking for Digital Asset Manager & Project Lead who can pro-actively implement new workflows and standard operating procedures while working in a team. The key focus of the role will be to help the organisation make the most of its digital assets, its digitisation facilities and the skills of its staff and volunteers. This includes managing the Digital Transformation Project and implementing a new Digital Library and Discovery System using Goobi, an open-source software application for digitisation projects. 

In autumn 2021, The Wiener Holocaust Library embarked on an ambitious five-year digital transformation project to revolutionise access to The Wiener Holocaust Library’s archive. Our Digital Transformation Project will create a much improved digital infrastructure for the Library. The project involves the creation of a discovery system, the scaling up of our digitisation programme, the enhancement of our catalogue records and the preservation of our most fragile collections. The Digital Asset Manager & Project Lead will play a key part in preparing the Library for the future.

The Digital Asset Manager & Project Lead’s work will be a crucial part of a diverse range of team workflows including cataloguing workflows, digitisation workflows and outreach work including online resources and social media. The role will involve pursuing innovation and best practice in order to facilitate the completion of the Library's transition to an exciting digital future and to meet our strategic goals 2021-2025.

As we are a small organisation we are looking for someone who is a good team player willing to be involved in other projects as necessary.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Digital Asset Manager & Project Lead will work with the Head of Collections and the wider Collections team, and will take a lead on a range of key tasks.

Digital Transformation Project responsibilities

• Overall project management, under the supervision of the Director 

• Line management responsibility of DTP Assistant and supervision of volunteers

• Implement a digital collections viewer (“Digital Library”) and scope out, design, and integrate in an all-inclusive search solution (“Discovery System”)

• Act as point of contact for external digitisation parties, conservation specialists, web support (Wavehill, Thirty8 Digital, Soutron) and other consultants (e.g. Intranda, ScanData Experts)

• Work with the wider Collections Team on catalogue enhancement to increase the searchability of digitised content

• Work with the Printed & Audiovisual Collections Manager and to catalogue, digitise and make available audiovisual material

• Work with the Development Coordinator and Head of Collections on grant applications and reporting as required and liaise with funders

Digitisation and digital asset management workflows

• Own the data asset register and contribute to regular reporting

• Implement new workflows and standard operating procedures for the digital assets of the Library that have been/will be generated through digitisation activity (both ‘business-as-usual' and project-based), as part of the wider Collection Development Policy.

• Manage the quality-assurance aspects of the Library’s digitisation workflows, checking the digitisation output from ad hoc or project based digitisation.

• Support the wider team to set digital standards of the library including digitisation standards for all media types, technical metadata, administrative metadata and collections-based metadata standards.

• Support the wider Collections team to ensure that all data sources can be linked and are driven by industry best practice, including providing support and best-practice gui