Vacancy Number: 13/008

Location: Wellington

Type: Permanent, Full Time

Business Group: ArchivesNZ

Branch: Information and Knowledge Services

Salary: $56,392 - $76,295

Closing Date: 5pm, Monday 28th January 2013

  
This is an exciting opportunity to join the team developing digital management
and preservation capability at Archives New Zealand.

  
This key role has responsibility for supporting business staff as they work
with public sector agencies preparing digital material for transfer to
Archives New Zealand, overseeing the efficient ingest of transferred items
into the archival management system, and helping define the requirements for
continuously improving digital processes and systems.

  
Key tasks include:

  
Analysing business requirements for processes, metadata models and user
functionality to support digital archive management

Actively supporting/mentoring staff working with transferring agencies and
describing digital objects

Overseeing the mapping of metadata from agency systems into Archives NZ's data
model and the ingest of digital objects into the digital preservation system.

Liaison between technical, business and digital preservation staff to ensure
processes and systems support the business well

Assisting in testing new releases of relevant applications

Training/advising staff on digital preservation implications for transfer,
description, ingest and digitisation activities

Contributing to best practice and standards for the on-going description,
storage, preservation and management of digital objects

  
We need someone with:

  
Knowledge and experience of archival / record keeping theory and practice

Strong competence and interest in IT systems

Relationship management involving both business and technical staff

Demonstrated analytical, problem solving and decision making skills

Tertiary qualification in an information management discipline

It would be great if you also had some knowledge of file management systems,
data management, digital record keeping environments, metadata models,
descriptive theory and practice or similar. A passion for preserving digital
information and an awareness of issues related to this is important.

  
If this sounds like you we would love you to apply.



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