Job Opening Title: Corporate Digital Archivist
Institution/Organization Name: Allied Vaughn
Job Location (City, State, Province, Country): Corona, CA
Application Deadline: November 30, 2015
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Years of experience required: 3-5 years
Corporate Digital Archivist—Corona, CA
Allied Vaughn was established in 1960 as a motion picture developing company, primarily servicing the communication needs of the automotive sector. Since 2003 we have expanded our service offering to include Digital Asset Management and a variety of other corporate archival services. We have a history of supporting a wide range of clients including General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Chrysler, Warner Brothers, Disney, McKesson, HP, and Carhartt. We currently have operational facilities located in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis with satellite offices and strategic partners both nationally and globally. With expertise in a variety of related content management fields and professional organizational memberships, we employ professionals in the areas of archival and library services, project management, video editing, IT, digital content management, research and marketing, and taxonomists.
Position Overview
The Corporate Digital Archivist position is located in Corona, CA supporting their marketing team in archival processing, brand management, policy and procedural development, metadata and taxonomy enhancement, and targeting content for an upcoming corporate anniversary. Our client recently launched a new DAM system and this position requires an understanding of transitional DAM initiatives while working closely with a team IT integrator. The initial phase of the project includes processing and curating a large collection of marketing materials dating back 10 years. Once the content is curated and loaded into DAM, this candidate will be responsible for corralling recently acquired brand content by developing relationships and workflows, develop policy and procedures around acquisition/disposition, preservation, refresh current taxonomy standards, and prepare for an upcoming anniversary while collaborating with the marketing team, DAM Manager, and an IT Admin expert. We expect the project to span 12 months staffed onsite.
Preferred Qualifications:
• 3-5 years professional Archival/DAM experience
• Subject matter expertise in the food industry or an ability to learn brand content quickly
• Degree in MLIS/Information Science, or related academic/professional experience
• Expertise in quickly moving the mountain of content with high level processing and curation skills
• Develop and author policies and procedures based on industry, archival, and client based standards
• Understand global corporate brand marketing and targeted monetize-able assets
• Experience in preparing for and/or targeting assets for milestone programs and publications
• Expertise is various physical materials, media/digital formats and processing and preservation of various materials
• High level of expertise in synthesizing metadata structures and taxonomy schemas across internal departments, external stakeholders, users, and cataloguers
• Ability to strategize and troubleshoot at the cross section of DAM, stakeholders and processes
• Experience in collaborating with colleagues on complex projects across departments to actualize solutions
• Experience building relationships with upper management, creative agencies, and departmental entities
• Align business divisional goals with physical/digital collection policies to preserve the most iconic and representative assets
• Ability to forecast and strategize process, project, and program improvements
We are looking to provide a professional staffing solution in archival content management for a corporate client in Corona, CA. This is a full time direct hire position hosted onsite. This project is expected to launch in November/December. To apply, send along resume, cover letter and list of references to:
Lisa M. Schell, MLIS, Digital Archive Manager
lisa.schell@alliedvaughn.com
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