JOB POSTING
Description of Job Duty:
Under the direction of the Director of Archives and Special Collections, the Access and Metadata Archive Assistant supports the Archives' digital collections program through the digitization, capture, description, and management of digitized and born-digital archival materials. The position manages day-to-day digitization and digital asset management workflows; creates, enhances, and remediates metadata; ingests digital materials into Preservica; performs quality control; and prepares digital collections for discovery and harvesting through external platforms such as the Digital Library of Tennessee and the Digital Public Library of America.
Tennessee Tech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
- Digitizes, processes, and ingests digitized and born-digital archival materials into Preservica or other digital asset management systems, ensuring files meet established quality standards.
- Creates, enhances, and remediates metadata for digital collections, including descriptive, structural, and administrative metadata, using archival standards and available historical information.
- Performs quality control and digital remediation of scanned images, digital files, and metadata using software such as Adobe Photoshop, Oxygen, duplicate-detection tools, and scanning applications.
- Prepares and maintains digital collections for external harvesting and discovery through providers such as the Digital Library of Tennessee and the Digital Public Library of America.
- Oversees Digitization Services operations, including project planning, digitization workflows, equipment and software use, vendor projects, and the maintenance of scanning, metadata, and ingest procedures.
- Recruits, trains, schedules, supervises, and evaluates student employees, assigns work, monitors productivity and quality, maintains time and attendance records, and recommends hiring or separation as appropriate.
- Provides Archives public services and facility support, including reading room monitoring, reference assistance, environmental monitoring, integrated pest management, re-shelving, opening and closing, and maintaining secure and orderly Archives spaces.
- Collaborates with Archives staff on research, special projects, outreach, and professional development.
- Applies new software and solutions for expediting work processes.
- Coordinates, collaborates, and works alongside library departments to achieve shared goals and responsibilities.
Physical Demands:
Those typical to perform the job duties listed.
Work Hours:
Typical hours are Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Special Instructions:
Applicants will be required to electronically upload a cover letter, resume, and complete contact information for three professional references. References will be contacted at a later date.
Salary:
Commensurate with education and experience. Level S4, Grade 8.
Benefits Information:
Tennessee Tech offers a competitive benefits plan. Benefits include the initial accumulation of one vacation day per month and one sick leave day per month, and thirteen (13) University holidays. Other benefits include medical and life insurance (shared cost with the university), retirement, optional 401k, and educational benefits.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
High school diploma (or GED) with five years of related experience, an associate's degree (60 credit hours) from an accredited institution with three years of experience, or a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution with one year of related professional experience. A master's degree from an accredited institution in a related field can be substituted for the experience requirement.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution. Knowledge and experience with archival principles, practices, and standards. Research skills and knowledge of Upper Cumberland history. Related professional experience in an Archive.