Digital Asset Management System Coordinator, UT Libraries
University of Texas Austin Job Location: Texas Date Created: 04-26-2024
- Provide consultation in support of UT Libraries’ digital projects.
- Train staff in digital asset management tasks in alignment with DAMS/Collections Portal protocols.
- Collaborate to develop, document, and communicate UTL best practices for creating, managing, and reusing DAMS/Collections Portal assets.
- Facilitate batch processing of digital assets.
- Collaborate with staff across the Libraries to support ingest of legacy digital collections into the DAMS.
- As Product Owner, work closely with DevOps on bug fixes, maintenance, feature enhancements, and migration to strategically develop the DAMS/Collections Portal software ecosystem.
- Contribute to outreach and promotion efforts.
- Serve as a liaison to professional communities for digital asset management and digital asset management software.
- Establish workflows for ingest, description, and publication of UT Libraries’ digital assets across varied stakeholder groups.
- Maintain policy documentation and workflow guidelines.
- Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure user alignment with established protocols.
- Adapt and refine workflows as needed.
- Develop proficiency with a variety of tools for digital asset management.
- Manage digital assets and their metadata as needed with routine workflows as well as special projects.
- Develop and maintain relevant reports and statistics aligned with assessment goals.
- Create and manage DAMS user authorizations and accounts.
- Monitor usage activity and system performance.
- Triage, assign, and resolve help tickets.
- Master’s degree in library science or equivalent. A degree in a relevant field or a combination of education plus experience in a field with transferable skills may be substituted as appropriate.
- Experience working with digital assets of different media types and in various data formats.
- Knowledge of digital asset management software to store and manage digitized content.
- Knowledge of different kinds and formats of metadata for describing digital assets.
- Knowledge of relevant technologies, software, and standards used in digital archiving, digital collections management, digitization, and digital preservation.
- Demonstrated ability to develop written project documentation, process procedures, and reports.
- Willingness to take on new challenges with a creative approach to problem-solving.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with emphasis on empathy, diplomacy, and working collaboratively.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously, and to work independently and as part of a team.
- An understanding of the contributions a dynamic academic community brings to the workplace.
- Outstanding attention to detail and thoroughness.
- Experience working with digital asset management software to store and manage digitized content.
- Experience working with different kinds and formats of metadata for describing digital assets.
- Experience with relevant technologies, software, and standards used in digital archiving, digital collections management, and digital preservation.
- Experience with relevant software tools (for instance Python or other computer programming languages, tools for file format identification, emulation environments or free readers, etc.).
- Experience developing projects and managing the workflows of peers, colleagues, and contributors outside of supervisory channels.
- Experience working with software developer/DevOps teams.
- Experience serving as a Product Owner in an Agile software development environment.
- Experience conducting training for audiences with varying degrees of technical knowledge.
- Experience providing effective leadership in an academic library or similar setting.
- May work around standard office conditions.
- Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation.
- Typical library conditions.
- Resume/CV
- 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
- Letter of interest
- Please describe your experience working with digital assets and tools to manage them.
- Which possibilities do you see (or have leveraged in the past) for using automation to improve digital asset management processes?
- Please describe how you would leverage your communication skills to manage and support projects for creating, describing, and publishing digital assets.
- What skills or experience would you utilize to develop written project documentation, process procedures, and reports?