The Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library is seeking Unit Manager to implement procedures for and coordinate the acquisition, curation, and accessibility of their born-digital archival materials.

Major/Essential Functions

• Creating digital archiving workflows, procedures, and policies.
• Arranging, describing, and providing access to born-digital archival collections and describing them into finding aids.
• Collaborating on the acquisition and accessioning of born-digital materials.
• Ingesting and migrating digital items from a variety of current and legacy media formats.
• Providing training and guidance to SWC/SCL staff on preserving and migrating born-digital materials.
• Retrieving, or assisting supervisor with retrieving, born digital collections.
• Assisting reference staff by responding to requests from internal and external patrons.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree plus three years supervisory experience; OR a combination of education and/or supervisory experience to equal seven years.

Preferred Qualifications

• ALA-accredited MLS degree or a Masters degree in public history or another humanities field with coursework in digital preservation, digital archives, or related subjects.
• Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) certification.
• Knowledge of or experience with professional archival standards, best practices, and technologies for accessing, arranging, describing, and preserving digital archival materials.
• Experience with tools and software to ingest, curate, and deliver born-digital archival material, as well as transfer content from media such as hard drives, flash drives, floppy disks, servers, and others.
• Experience with training colleagues, especially on technological tools, in a team-based environment.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to work creatively, collaboratively, and effectively with a team, sometimes across organizational boundaries.
• Exceptional organizational, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Annual salary: $48,000

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