The New School Archives and Special Collections (the Archives) seeks a creative and self-motivated Digital Archives Assistant (DAA) to report to the Associate Director for Digital Archives (ADDA).

The DAA will support digital initiatives and daily activities of the Archives, with a primary focus on the New School web archiving program, and packaging of materials for the repository management system, Archivematica. The DAA will also support tasks related to tracking and making available digitized and born-digital material. In consultation with the ADDA, the DAA will be trained to handle specific types of complex media, such as web archiving, obsolete media processing, or email archiving.

Candidates must have a strong interest in digital archives illustrated by related coursework, pursuit of computer programming languages, and/or digital preservation work experience.

This is a part-time position, 25 hours per week.