The Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library is seeking Unit Manager to oversee the curation, arrangement, description, and related duties for its photograph collections.

Major/Essential Functions:

• Creating physical inventories of the archives’ photographic and related media, including identification of items in need of conservation and rehousing.
• Arranging and describing photographic collections in accordance with Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS).
• Creating finding aids for both newly processed and existing photographic collections using Encoded Archival Description.
• Assisting with the description of digitized and born digital photographic items and collections and creating controlled subject vocabulary documentation.
• Assisting Southwest Collection Archivist and Registrar with updating photograph archiving procedures and workflows.
• Conducting oral histories related to photographic collections.
• Assisting with collection acquisition activities, requiring travel throughout the Southwest.
• Assisting with reference requests as needed

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of best practices for handling, organizing, describing, and preserving physical and digital photographic materials.
• Ability to identify conservation requirements of photographic materials and collaborate on their conservation and preservation.
• Competency in computer applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and Oxygen XML Editor.
• Evidence of ability to attend to accuracy, attention to detail, and the necessity for confidentiality.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with a team, sometimes across organizational boundaries.
• Exceptional organizational, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

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:

• 1 year of hands-on experience working in an archival setting with a focus on the arrangement, description, and preservation of archival materials, preferably photographic materials.
• Familiarity with DACS, EAD, Dublin Core, and other metadata standards, as well as the use of Library of Congress Authorities and FAST for subject heading identification.
• Familiarity with digital imaging software.

Annual salary: $48,000

For more information and to apply, please visit this link.