Archivist & Coordinator Job Description
Vacancy for Archivist & Coordinator at the Digital Repository of Ireland.
Job Title: Archivist & Coordinator Vacancy Details:
* Location: Dublin
* Fixed Term: Yes
Role Overview:
The successful candidate will be responsible for project management and reporting, developing a specialist vocabulary and a public registry of at-risk content, hands-on digital asset preparation and ingestion, coordinating with external stakeholders, providing training, and organising a range of events.
Key Accountabilities:
* Reporting to the Director, working to deliver a successful and timely project with guidance from the project steering group, in collaboration with the project team and other staff.
* Lead project management duties such as project planning, project reporting, metrics collection, event organisation, project communication and dissemination.
* Lead the development of a vocabulary/taxonomy for reproductive health datasets in close collaboration with project staff (i.e. the postdoctoral researcher and software engineer) and create a public registry of at-risk content.
* Hands-on digital asset preparation, metadata annotation and enrichment, data ingestion into the repository of organisational datasets.
* Coordinate with external organisations who hold relevant collections, provide training and assistance with archival workflows, collection management hands-on tasks identified above.
* Organise events such as public collection days, community engagement events, and educational/dissemination events.
* Participate in staff and project meetings, cross-functional Task Forces, and other activities as assigned.
Requirements:
* A degree level qualification in library, information or archival studies or a same level qualification in a related discipline.
* Expertise in cataloguing specialist subjects with established metadata standards or working with taxonomies/vocabularies/ontologies.
* A minimum of 2 years experience with project management and/or organising events including their administration, budgeting, planning and delivery.
* Evidence of excellent oral and written communications skills.
* Experience of developing and providing training on specific topics at the level required.
* 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.
* Working experience with Dublin Core, MARC 21, MODs, or EAD.
* Understanding of social and/or political movements and contemporary Irish history.
* Skills and expertise in more than one of the following: digital preservation, digital curation, content management and organisation, copyright in digital environments.
* Experience with qualitative data or oral history research methods.