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Project Manager
National Geographic
Washington, DC, United States
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Job Description Summary
Project Manager (Digital Preservation Archive)
The National Geographic Society is seeking a Project Manager for its Digital Preservation Archive Initiative (DPI). The successful candidate will have experience in digital collection management and workflows, demonstrated understanding of archival description and materials, familiarity with digital project management and web and new media strategies, familiarity with library and archival standards (EAD, METS, MARC, Dublin Core, PB Core) and strong communications skills. This position also requires experience in processing digitized and born digital archival materials, with a demonstrated understanding of archival arrangement and description and the application of archival principles in a digital environment. The DPI Project Manager will be expected to remain current with emerging standards and professional best practices and their real-world application.
Responsibilities
• Reports to the Senior Archive Director and work closely with the NGS Library + Archive staff, and will supervise workflow. Oversee the digital processing of archival collections for the project. He or she will also ensure machines, documents, and artifacts remain secure. Keeps schedule and tracks progress and manages quality control – image inspection, metadata QC, acceptance/rejection, etc. Prepares reports on production, project status. Serve as Archives’ technical expert in planning, management and execution of digital collections program, including establishing policy and making budget recommendations. Works with digital collections platform, coordinating updates, tweaking and troubleshooting catalog and access configurations, and discovering, adapting and integrating tools to make collections more easily discoverable and accessible. Provide expertise and guidance on emerging standards, establishing guidelines and workflows for digital collections, including digitization, metadata, intellectual property, content delivery, linked data, and digital preservation. Develops and documents digitization process. (50%)
• Provides initial reviews of records proposed for digitization for conservation concerns and consults with archivists and conservation staff as needed. Assists in preparing and adding digital objects to the catalog. This includes linking the resulting digital collections to existing finding aid descriptions, enhancing descriptions, ensuring the encoding of the finding aids and digital objects for delivery to the Archival Preservation System. Working with library and archives team, manage and expand effort to collect electronic institutional records, improving acquisitions workflows for digital media, coordinating with office administrators and collaborating with processing archivists on cataloging standards and processing of hybrid analog/digital collections. (30%)
• Train and supervise DPAI Scanning Technicians, Metadata Catalogers and Collections Assistant. Coordinates archival material preparation activities, tracking and routing materials, monitors workflow processes, and monitors holdings security procedures. Oversee scan-on-demand, transfer of legacy digital and audiovisual content, and large-scale digitization projects. (20%)
Minimum Education Required
Master’s degree or equivalent work experience. preferred
Minimum Years and Type of Experience
Three to five years of digital projects experience preferably in education or non-profit environment. A background in digital humanities, archival studies or special collections, or related field. Previous experience digitally processing archives or otherwise working in a special collections environment. Experience in digital collections processing or digital curation.
Knowledge and Skills Required
• Familiarity with archival collections and principles of arrangement and description as well as using and supporting digital repositories.
• Knowledge of metadata standards and protocols (such as Dublin Core, Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
• Working knowledge of digital content creation/transformation tools to create, extract, analyze, and perform quality control and other actions on digital objects, and associated work with metadata.
• Experience with metadata schemas, vocabularies and content standards (including DC, EAD, VRA Core 4.0, PBCore, RDA, LCSH, PREMIS, METS, etc.) and various encoding/transmission formats (such as RDF, XML, XSLT, MARC, JSON, etc.)
• Maintains complete discretion, confidentiality, sensitivity and professional judgment.
• Ability to listen and communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, and to explain technical information to non-specialist colleagues.
• Effective at meeting deadlines, adjusting priorities and working on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Must be competent in using a PC and the internet as communication tools and proficient with Microsoft Office.
• Ability to lift and carry 40 pounds.
Supervision
1-3 staff members
Responsibility percentages may vary depending on business needs.
National Geographic's headquarters is located in the heart of Washington, D.C. In addition to a unique and dynamic work environment, National Geographic offers its employees a comprehensive benefits package, including health and dental benefits, generous vacation and leave time, a 401(k) plan, and flexible work options. National Geographic is an Equal Opportunity Employer