Digital Asset Specialist

About the Role

We are seeking a Digital Asset Specialist to join Archives and Special Collections within our Library Research Support Team. The post holder will support our newly established Centre for Digital Collections (CDC), which will digitise analogue archival collections, transfer born digital records, and support research projects and other activities in the Digital Humanities. To begin with you will be working to set up the CDC working with the Lead Archivist and the project team, including set-up, testing and commissioning the Digital Asset Management System (DAMS), preservation and online exhibition capabilities, followed by the set-up of the digitisation studio. The Research Support team comprises Archives and Special Collections, Open Research Services, and Research Reporting.

About You

You should have experience in operating digitisation equipment and handling archives and cultural material to create digital assets. You will understand the processes, procedures and standards required to manage these assets within a DAMS, to preserve and make them accessible. You will have experience of planning and managing projects to ensure the digitisation equipment is optimised to its fullest potential and be able to offer support and advice to colleagues on creating and transferring digital assets. You will be able to work with Library, IT and academic staff to develop our digital collection offering and will have an interest in facilitating service improvements and enhancing user experience.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

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