Vacancy for Digital Services Manager at Stanford University

Apply for the Vacancy for Digital Services Manager at Stanford University. The category of the position is  Libraries.

Job Purpose

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives is seeking a client-focused/user-centered Digital Services Manager whose principal role will be to ensure the effective coordination, communication, and design of services, products, and activities associated with the Digital First/Virtual Library Initiative. Additionally, this initiative aims to deliver large-scale digitization of the Library & Archives’ collections for scholarly and community uses.

Duties

• Ensures the timely and successful planning, execution, and completion of digital projects in a highly collaborative environment that involves decision-makers across many levels of the organization (i.e., senior management, curators, librarians, archivists, conservators, and technologists);
• Additionally, accountable for coordinating work plan development, collection preparation, content conversion, digital ingest, content delivery and reuse, and website functionality testing for assigned projects;
• Also, applies digitization guidelines and procedures to complex and unique collections to the predicted use of the materials in conjunction with curators and domain experts;
• Furthermore, ensures high-throughput steady-state operations for digital conversion work streams;
• Provides cost estimates to support digitization projects, grant proposals, and solicitations of donations;
• Also, collects and maintains statistics, reports, and other metrics to assess and improve functions;
• Leads, hires, coaches, trains, and evaluates the performance of staff and students; assigns and prioritizes workloads, sets deadlines, and reviews work for quality and timeliness.
• Furthermore, coordinates with external vendors on digitization projects and manage the high-resolution scan-on-demand services for specialized formats;
• Assess handling requirements of archival objects for digitization in conjunction with conservation staff;
• Furthermore, engage in scholarships including talks, papers, and other activities on project outcomes to internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

Education & Experience:

Advanced Degree in Library Science or a relevant academic discipline with demonstrated understanding of academic libraries, with two or more years of relevant experience with digital services, products, and/or activities in a library or archival setting or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrated experience assessing cultural heritage materials for digitization and developing work plans and production cost estimates;
• Additionally, demonstrated experience coordinating multiple, simultaneous projects involving multiple institutions and teams that may be geographically distributed;
• Furthermore, demonstrated knowledge of technical, legal, and information policy issues related to digital conversion and publication;
• Also, working experience with structured data, digital object standards, and metadata formats, standards, and frameworks (i.e., METS, MODS, ALTO, MARC, IIIF, Dublin Core, etc.);
• Furthermore, familiarity with the range of digital conversion technologies and tools, especially digital imaging and/or audiovisual content reformatting technologies, processes, and professional standards (e.g., FADGI, Metamorfoze, LIMB Capture, Adobe Creative Cloud, Capture One, etc.);
• Likewise, familiarity with project management tools and digitization workflow management systems (i.e., Trello, Smartsheet, LIMB Maestro, LIMB Processing, Goobi, Opus Workflow, DocWorks, etc.);
• Additionally, working knowledge of United States copyright law and fair use

Physical Requirements

• Constantly perform desk-based computer tasks.
• Also, frequently sitting.
• Furthermore, work with books and in places that may be dusty.
• Frequently twist/bend/stoop/squat, grasp lightly/fine manipulation, grasp forcefully, use a telephone, sort/file paperwork or parts, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds.
• Additionally, occasionally stand/walk, reach/work above shoulders, writing by hand, kneel/crawl, climb (ladders, scaffolds, or other).
• Moreover, just be able to push and maneuver a fully-loaded cart weighing up to 650 pounds that requires an initial push force up to 50 pounds. Ability to lift 40-pound boxes or bundles.

About

Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. Stanford is known for its academic achievements, wealth, location within Silicon Valley, and selectivity; it is ranked as one of the world’s top universities.

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