The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) protects public health and the environment by supplying clean drinking water, collecting and treating wastewater, and reducing air, noise, and hazardous materials pollution. DEP is the largest combined municipal water and wastewater utility in the country, with nearly 6,000 employees. We deliver 1.1 billion gallons of high quality drinking water per day to 8.3 million New York City residents and more than 1 million people in Upstate New York, and we collect and treat an average of 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater per day.
The selected candidate will serve as the Digital Collections Archivist as part of the Records and Archives Management office. This newly created position will administer the recently acquired digital asset management system (Extensis Portfolio), direct digitization projects, acquire and describe born digital records, implement a strategy for preserving digital assets, and improve on ways to provide access to digital assets based on user needs. This position will monitor system hardware and storage needs and interface with the agency’s Information Technology group on behalf of the unit.
To see job post and to apply go to https://a127-jobs.nyc.gov/ and search for “Digital Collections Archivist” or Job ID “178095”.
Note from Meredith: I had trouble accessing the NYC Jobs site with Firefox, but Explorer did work.
Source: Thanks to Samar Q. for this one!
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