The Archivist will provide leadership, vision, and direction in overseeing the MACRI’s small physical collection of archival materials, as well as lead MACRI’s efforts to establish an online archive portal. The Archivist will collect and make publicly available (via the portal) primary resources related to Mexican American civil rights history. MACRI will prioritize post-custodial collections from both established archives and personal family collections, and will serve a primary audience of K-12 teachers and students. The Archivist must be able to cultivate and develop relationships with established archives and families with relevant collections. This position may occasionally require travel and work on evenings and weekends.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Partners with a consultant to implement the technical infrastructure for a collaborative online archive with a public portal.

• Continues the management of the online archive, facilitates partner contributions to the online archive, and regularly publishes content to the public portal.

• Designs and manages digital collections by selecting the metadata schema, descriptive practices, and controlled vocabularies; and exercising quality control of the software, equipment, and catalog records.

• Implements policies and procedures for managing MACRI’s archive with long-term preservation and access as the focus; to include: digital file ingest, storage, preservation, organization, description, and access.

Qualifications:

• MLIS Degree with a concentration in Archives or a similar equivalency. 2-3 years of experience may be used in lieu of an advanced degree.

• Familiarity with processing archival collections, including experience in creating descriptive data, digitization, and care of both physical and born-digital materials.

• Awareness of Collections Management Systems (CMS), Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS), or Digital Preservation Systems; and an interest in database use.

• Knowledge of standards, best practices, and principles in digital collections management, digital file preservation, asset management, and descriptive data work, as well as the ability and desire to continue cultivating expertise in these areas.

• Ability to assist with teaching staff and contractors engaged in digitization, descriptive, and digital file management tasks when necessary.

• A demonstrated ability to learn new technical skills.

• Interest in performing community outreach, cultivating relationships, and collaborating with outside partners.

• Comfortable with interpersonal dynamics, and verbal and written communication. 

Salary Range: $50,000-60,000 

How to Apply:

Please send the following to: info@somosmacri.org

• Resume

• Cover Letter

• A link or attachment of position-related work you’ve completed as part of course work, internship, or past employment. There’s no need to create new work.

Interviews will be scheduled on a rolling basis. The position will remain open until a candidate is selected. Please see the attached PDF for the full job listing.