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We have two exciting open positions to share, both based in the digital preservation team at Yale University Library. Please consider applying and share with any potential applicants!

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Software Preservation Program Manager

General Purpose: Reporting to the Digital Preservation Manager, the Software Preservation Program Manager is responsible for managing and growing the Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI) Program of work (https://eaasi.info). EaaSI is a world-leading program of work providing open-source software and services that make emulation practical for use in long term digital preservation workflows.

The successful candidate will have an opportunity to make a wide impact on the national and international memory sector by ensuring historic and valuable digital artifacts can be accessed by future generations using original software.

The Software Preservation Program Manager will manage: The budget of the EaaSI program of work. The computing infrastructure supporting EaaSI’s development and the hosted cloud instances of EaaSI. The software development process for the EaaSI software, including working with a team of developers predominantly based in Europe. The work of the Software Preservation Analyst who reports to the Program Manager. Communications, outreach, and marketing of the program with a goal of increasing the user base and ensuring an engaged and active community of users and contributors.

The Program Manager will also work to finalize and implement the business plan for the ongoing support of the program post grant funding. Additionally, the Program Manager will become proficient with Yale’s project management tools, services, and methodologies.

The position has grant-based funding through June 2024 with a strong possibility of moving to organizational funding following this.

This position participates in Yale’s “FlexPlace Work Arrangements” (https://your.yale.edu/work-yale/work-models-yale/flexplace-work-arrangements) in a “Largely remote” capacity. No on-campus office will be assigned and working remotely will be expected.

Required Education and Experience: Minimum requirement of bachelor’s degree in a related field and four years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Qualifications:

Demonstrated ability managing software preservation related work. Demonstrated ability with emulation and software preservation.
Strong oral and written communication skills.
Proven project management ability.
Demonstrated ability presenting to large and small audiences.
Demonstrated ability working with distributed groups of stakeholders.

Application: For more information and immediate consideration, please apply online at https://bit.ly/YaleCareers-78320BR. Please be sure to reference this website when applying for this position.

Digital Preservation Librarian

Reporting to the digital preservation manager, the Digital Preservation Librarian will work within the digital preservation team to preserve digital content for stakeholders at Yale University. They will act as an expert user of our digital preservation system, providing support for our digital preservation services as needed.

Consults with prospective content depositors and stewards of preserved content to ensure depositors can ingest content into the digital preservation systems, to ensure their content is appropriately preserved, and to ensure their content is appropriately accessible when requested.
Packages and ingests content on behalf of depositors. Automates the packing and ingest process wherever possible using scripts/programs and other automation tools.
Troubleshoots workflow issues and works closely with the content stewards to ensure they have the resources and training necessary to ingest, manage and access their content.
Uses system reporting functionality in both our preservation and EaaSI systems to provide insights into digital preservation processes and outcomes.
Works with the digital preservation team and other stakeholders to document policies and procedures related to the digital preservation services we offer. Works to ensure the system and services can pass regular audits.

This position will be assigned a rank of Librarian 1 to Librarian 3. Librarian ranking information can be found at http://bit.ly/YULRanksPromotions

Required Education and Experience:

Master’s degree from an ALA‐accredited library school. In selected instances, a post‐graduate degree in a related discipline may be required or substituted for a master’s degree in library science.
Demonstrated excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communications and analytical ability.
Demonstrated record of designing projects and bringing them to a conclusion in a timely fashion.
Experience working collegially and cooperatively within and across organizations.
Experience working collaboratively and independently with varied groups within a complex organization and rapidly changing, team environment.

Qualifications:

Demonstrable analytical skills and aptitude for desk-based research including the ability to reason insightfully when presented with a technical problem and present coherent argument for chosen way forward.
Demonstrable experience with digital preservation systems and repositories.
Ability to write simple programs/scripts and XML stylesheets and understand basic program code and XML.
Demonstrated technical understanding of digital preservation challenges and solutions.
Strong team working and communications skills.
Preferred Education, Experience and Skills: Experience working with the Preservica digital preservation system software. Experience working with preservation tools such as DROID, JHOVE, Siegfried. Ability to write complex computer programs. Experience of working on digital preservation research projects. Experience of working in a research library, archive or research data center. Experience in software testing.

Application: For more information and immediate consideration, please apply online at https://bit.ly/YaleCareers-78231BR. Please be sure to reference this website when applying for this position.

Best regards,

Euan Cochrane

Head of Digital Preservation

Yale University Library

New Haven, CT

P (203) 432 1721