Digital Collections Manager (HEA), Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro), Hunter College (New York, NY)

Posted January 22, 2025

Job Description:

The Center for Puerto Rican Studies is a research institute dedicated to the study and interpretation of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States, producing and disseminating relevant interdisciplinary research. Centro also collects preserves and provides access to library and archival resources documenting Puerto Rican history and heritage. We seek to link scholarship to social action and policy debates, and to contribute to the betterment of our community and enrichment of Puerto Rican studies.

Working under the supervision of the Head Librarian, the Digital Collections Manager will oversee the development, management, and preservation of Centro’s digital archival holdings.

Salary Range: commensurate with education and experience, within approved range ($ 86,645- $107,789).

Position Details:

This position reports to the Head Librarian. In addition to the CUNY Title Overview, responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:

Oversee the development, management, and preservation of Centro’s digital archival holdings.
Provide leadership and promote innovation in the management, access, and storage of digital archival holdings.
Coordinate the archival digitization program, including overseeing selection, preparation of materials, digitization, post-processing, quality assurance, ingest, access and discovery of digital objects.
Administer CENTRO’s digital collections portal, including training staff, maintaining user documentation, performing system maintenance of metadata and user interface, encoding import and export templates, and liaising with IT staff.
Implement CENTRO’s digital preservation policy and collaborate with tech staff to enhance, improve, and scale digital preservation.
Run born-digital processing program, including producing or enhancing finding aids and developing access mechanisms for born-digital content.
Oversee CENTRO’s audiovisual collections and serve as curator of the oral history collections.
Manage Digital Projects Coordinator and other digital projects archival staff.
Collaborate with the Archival Collections Manager and Library Manager to provide use of and access to the digital archival holdings as well as developing and revising policies and procedures for the Library and Archives.
Actively contribute to broader information management work within Centro, Hunter College and across CUNY and participation in relevant professional organizations.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree and six years’ related experience required; MLS degree and/or Master’s in a related field may be substituted for a portion of the experience requirement.

Demonstrated experience with appraising, processing, arranging, and describing born digital and digitized archival materials and collections.
Experience using archival content management and digital curation systems and technologies applicable to an archive.
Experience with applying metadata standards and schema for descriptive, structural, and preservation metadata such as DACS, EAD, MARC, and PREMIS.
Demonstrated skill with tools, workflow implementation, and quality assurance for digital archives.
Ability to understand, use, and innovate with community and ISO standards, including OAIS, PAIMAS, and related standards.
Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
Strong organizational and analytical skills with proven success in independently prioritizing work and managing competing deadlines.
Excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate and work effectively within and across organizational and unit boundaries in a diverse organization and with a wide variety of users.
Successfully demonstrated experience training and/or managing staff.
Working knowledge of English and Spanish languages.
Working knowledge of copyright.
Interest in the history of Puerto Rican populations and communities in the US.

How To Apply:

For more information and application details, please visit the official job posting linked here.