The Cooper Union is seeking a Digital Archives Specialist to liaison between School of Art, the Library, and the AV department in the creation of an archive for the IDS lecture series: gathering materials from different departments, ensuring their safety, and making them accessible; (1) working with a small team to locate, transfer, convert, edit, and store digital assets;  (2) to development, assign and edit metadata for archive utility; (3) and to bring the project to completion within the designated timeframe.

Responsibilities/expectations include project management and execution, creative thinking, problem solving and self-organization.  The work schedule for this project will be flexible.  We estimate that the project will require @ 250 hours of work.

Bachelor's degree in library science, computer science, history, media studies, graphic/web design, film production or related fields is required.

Preferred experience with digital preservation, archiving and storage systems; converting video to streaming from a variety of formats; and creating metadata records.

Submit specified application materials to lisa.norberg@cooper.edu.