NON PROFIT DIGITAL MEDIA ARCHIVIST
The HistoryMakers
Chicago, Illinois
Full-time
The Non Profit Digital Media Archivist will :
- Process, arrange and catalog the current collection of videotaped and born digital oral history interviews(each interview averages 3-6 hours in length.
- Adhere to the policies and procedures for managing born-digital materials for ingest, storage, preservation, organization, description, and access.
- Design and manage digital collections by establishing the metadata schema, controlled vocabularies, and exercising quality control of the software, equipment and metadata records.
- Preserve the intellectual and artifactual value of physical archival material by determining the need for performing conservation procedures such as, document cleaning, repair, deacidification, and humidification.
- Provide access to archival collections by compiling finding aids, creating collection-level records or metadata descriptions, creating finding aids or controlled vocabularies to assist online researchers, and maintaining a database on collections and storage space allocation.
- Provide reference services for The HistoryMakers archival collections.
- Assist in fundraising activities in doing research, writing and seeking external grant funding for processing projects, records surveys, online interpretive exhibits, and publications.
- Promote knowledge and use of The HistoryMakers Digital Archive by making presentations, talks, and / or interviews to the media, library groups, historical societies, and elementary through college classes.
- Performing all other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have a graduate degree in African American or American history, library science with a concentration in archival management, or other related field.
The candidate must have 3-7 years prior experience working in a non profit archive or library with video / AV material resources.
Qualifications
The candidate will have :
- Significant experience with records management systems for organizational records.
- Knowledge of standards in moving-image cataloging and the creation of finding aids including knowledge of EAD and EAC-CFP.
- Experience with videotape formats, in particular Beta cam SP; and migrating collections using an encoding system like Samma Solo.
- Strong project planning and time management skills;
- Familiarity with computer databases (i.e. Microsoft Excel, FileMaker, Oxygen, Photoshop) and Microsoft Office Suite.
- Ability to work in close cooperation with The HistoryMakers Founder & President and our Consulting Archivist.
Salary and Benefits
Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications. The HistoryMakers
9 days ago