Multiple Positions, WGBH, Boston, MA
Posted January 26, 2018
- Job Title: Archivist
Position Overview: The Archivist is responsible for the application of professional archival principles and practices to the Peabody Awards Digitization Project, the Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship, and various other assignments involving the WGBH Media Library and Archives and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
Illustrative Tasks:
Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship
- Assists the Project Manager in communications with Fellows, hosts, and local mentors
- Coordinate blog posts by Fellows
- Coordinate centralization and publication of documentation created by the Fellows
- Coordinate webinars, including communication with speakers and staff
- Provide support to the Engagement and Use Manager in promotion of the project
- Coordinate with the fellows on ingest of digitized content into the AAPB
Antiques Roadshow, Peabody Awards, Riverside Church Digitization Project
- Coordinate QC of digitized video and audio files
- Communicate with partners at Antiques Roadshow and digitization vendor
- Communicate with partners at University of Georgia and digitization vendor
- Communicate with partners at Riverside Church and digitization vendor
- Coordinate metadata ingest and updating of records as they are cataloged
- Ingest proxy files, uploading to Sony Ci
- Coordinate with programmer analyst and metadata specialist on creation and indexing of speech-to-text transcripts
American Archive of Public Broadcasting – General
- Ingest metadata records into the AAPB
- Validate digital file acquisitions for integrity and accuracy
- Normalize filenames and formats in accordance with AAPB policies
- Generate and manage preservation and technical metadata
- Create and validate proxy files and upload to Sony Ci
- Support long-term preservation of files on LTO tape
Skills:
Required:
- Familiarity with metadata standards including PBCore
- Familiarity with XML
- Familiarity with digital preservation best practices and open source tools
- Understanding of best practices around audiovisual media
- Ability to effectively express ideas and information verbally, and in writing
- Excellent organizational skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to successfully balance time and achieve goals across multiple projects
- Enthusiasm for public media and its history
- Demonstrated interest/investment in audiovisual archives
Desired
- Familiarity with open source tools used to manage audiovisual media including FFmpeg, MediaInfo, and QCTools
- Experience collaborating with remote partners on projects across multiple institutions
- Experience working with digitization vendors
- Previous experience in an audiovisual and/or digital archive setting.
Master’s degree in Library and Information Science or equivalent degree required.
To apply for this position, please visit http://www.wgbh.org/about/
- Job Title: Project Manager
Position Overview: Reporting to the Associate Director, the Project Manager will manage and execute ambitious digitization projects including the PBS NewsHour Digitization Project, Riverside Church WRVR Digitization Project, and Peabody Awards Digitization Project. In this role, the Project Manager will have complete oversight and accountability over staff assigned to these projects. The Project Manager will also be responsible for overseeing contractor/vendor and project collaborator work related to these projects. The Project Manager will coordinate with other departments and colleagues in the foundation as necessary, including legal counsel, MLA developers, and Project Finance. The position will lead the decision-making and issue resolution on these projects, ensuring the overall success of the projects, that projects stay on schedule and deliverables are achieved.
AAPB Acquisitions Management
The Project Manager will oversee communications with potential contributing organizations to ensure proper delivery of digital video and/or audio files and metadata to the AAPB. The Project Manager will also coordinate with potential contributing organizations on digitization grant proposals and vendor RFPs.
Workflow Coordination
The Project Manager will continually evaluate and enhance AAPB digitization and ingest workflows, in collaboration with other team members.
Required Skills:
- 1-2 years experience coordinating successful digitization projects
- Excellent cross-functional project management skills
- Superior critical-thinking and problem solving skills
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive actions
- Strengths in problem solving, issue-resolution, attention to detail, and ability to successfully manage multiple complex projects simultaneously
- Excellent organizational skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal
- Demonstrated experience engaging with and influencing external collaborators and other internal departments
- An appreciation for and an understanding of the public media landscape
Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree in Moving Image Archive Preservation or equivalent highly preferred.
To apply for this position, please visit http://www.wgbh.org/about/