Collections Digitization Archivist

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Education & Experience: 

Advanced Degree in Library Science or a relevant academic discipline with demonstrated understanding of academic libraries and two or more years of relevant experience in a library, archives or museum, or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent interpersonal skills, mature judgment, and diplomacy required to interact effectively with and provide customer service to a broad audience.
• Ability to work independently and effectively in a collaborative, fast-paced environment; ability to adapt to change, analyze and assess evolving needs, and take initiative to seek creative solutions.
• Excellent attention to detail and demonstrated ability to employ quality assurance measures to minimize errors.
• Ability to develop and maintain knowledge of the content and organization of the collections in the repository, including their archival, bibliographic, historical, cultural, and institutional aspects.
• Understanding of care, preservation, and handling of rare and archival materials.
• Demonstrated awareness of issues, standards, trends, and current best practices in digitization, digital access, and digital engagement.
• Familiarity with or willingness to learn project management tools, practices, and methods, including Agile and waterfall principles; techniques such as Gantt charts, product backlogs, and Kanban; and tools such as Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Trello, Smartsheet, and Airtable.
• Knowledge of intellectual property rights, patron and donor privacy, and other legal issues, especially as they apply to primary source materials in various formats.

Desired/Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Familiarity with digital imaging and/or AV digitization quality standards and their implementation in production environments.
• Demonstrated experience cataloging, converting, migrating, and bulk uploading digital assets, including still images, sound recordings, moving images, and born-digital material. Broad knowledge of digital repository functions, services, and requirements.
• Demonstrated experience with data migration, ingestion, curation, and mapping. In particular, demonstrated experience running quarantine check, checksum, and format validation using tools such as Droid, BagIt, and BitCurator.
• Knowledge of metadata schemas including Dublin Core and MARC and metadata encodings including EAD and METS.
• Experience creating, editing, and executing scripted data transformations in XML and JSON, command-line tools, and basic Python and bash scripting preferred.
• Reading knowledge of a language other than English, particularly one of the following: Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Persian, German.

Certifications and Licenses:

• None

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS*:

• Constantly perform desk-based computer tasks.
• Frequently sitting.
• Visual acuity including color vision.
• Work with books and in places that may be dusty.
• Frequently twist/bend/stoop/squat, grasp lightly/fine manipulation, grasp forcefully, use a telephone, sort/file paperwork or parts, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds.
• Occasionally stand/walk, reach/work above shoulders, writing by hand, kneel/crawl, climb (ladders, scaffolds, or other).
• Must be able to push and maneuver a fully-loaded cart weighing up to 650 pounds that requires an initial push force up to 50 pounds. Ability to lift 40 pound boxes or bundles.

Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of the job.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• May work in confined spaces and at heights 4–10 feet; be exposed to dust and mold;
• May require some evening and weekend work across multiple time zones in support of the project.
• Opportunities for a hybrid work schedule negotiable.

The expected pay range for this position is $73,000-$92,000 per annum. Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location, and external market pay for comparable jobs.

WORK STANDARDS:

• Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients as well as with external organizations.
• Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.
• Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies and other policies found in the University's Administrative Guide, http://adminguide.stanford.edu.

The Hoover Institution at Stanford University is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.