Digital Archivist (Museum Registrar)

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Job Title: Digital Archivist (Museum Registrar)
Job ID: 31649
Location: Regional History Center
Full/Part-Time: Full-Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular

Overview:
The Orange County Regional History Center is seeking a highly qualified individual to fill the
position of Digital Archivist. The History Center is a national multi-award-winning, AAM
accredited, and Smithsonian affiliated institution centered around its mission: to serve as the gateway
for community engagement, education, and inspiration by preserving and sharing Central Florida’s
continually unfolding story.
This position is responsible for the management and oversight of museum’s digital collection, and
for acquiring, processing, digitizing, cataloging, and creating access to the museum’s
collection. Work is performed under the supervision of the Curator of Collections.

Reports to: Curator of Collections

Representative Duties
 Creates, preserves, and provides access to digital assets primarily for use in the organization’s
exhibition, marketing, online, research, and education initiatives.
 Upholds archival standards, principles, and best practices in assessment of needs and
development of workflows in digital preservation strategies.
 Maintains knowledge of copyright, donor restrictions, and permissions issues related to
processing and access of digitized and born-digital materials.
 Recommends policies and procedures relating to the storage, description, and preservation
of digital materials.
 Ensures adherence to archival standards, best practices, and benchmarks for the preservation
and digitization of archival materials.
 Identifies funding, collaborations and grant opportunities in support of digital initiatives.
 Stays current on emerging technologies and standards for the preservation of digital assets
and maintains an awareness of current trends and developments in the archival profession.
 Leads adherence to and revision of museum policies in keeping with American Alliance of
Museums accreditation standards.
 Supervises the activities of interns and volunteers on digital projects.
 Works with the marketing department to enhance awareness of museum’s digital collections
with both internal and external audiences.
 Creates, maintains, and expands the existing Legacy Lab, handling equipment purchasing,
repair, and use covering a wide variety of formats.
 Performs other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in library science, museum studies, archival studies,
or a closely related field and 1-2 years of experience with preservation, digitization of, and archival
experience with born-digital and digitized image collections in a museum, academic, research or
special library setting.
 Knowledge of digital asset management systems and databases, as well as records
management practices, trends and issues, especially as pertaining to issues associated with
digital content.
 Knowledge of workflows for preservation digitization, ingest, metadata creation and quality
control of images.
 Knowledge of current trends in the preservation of digital materials, archival standards, and
best practices.

Preferences
Master’s degree from an accredited institution in library science, museum studies, archival studies, or
a closely related field and 2 years of experience with preservation digitization of and archival
experience with born-digital and digitized image collections in a museum, academic, research or
special library setting.
 Strong organizational, interpersonal, and verbal and written communication skills.
 Detail-oriented with ability to organize and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines and manage
multiple projects simultaneously.
 Familiarity with relevant descriptive and technical metadata standards, copyright, donor
restrictions and permission issues related to providing access to digital content.
 Familiarity with Proficio and Preservica.

Please Read
The Orange County online application, in addition to a cover letter and resume, must be
completed for a candidate to be considered. Complete work history, including internships
and volunteer positions must be included in the online application or it will be deemed
incomplete and may not pass screening. Please include a cover letter and resume as a single
PDF document during submission.

The above description and qualifications are not all-inclusive and represent a majority of the
key responsibilities of this position. Other duties may be assigned as required to fulfill the
directives of the strategic plan or the museum. Work environment is a combination of office
setting with some driving between the office to the museum and off-site storage; must be
able to lift up to 25 pounds.

*Final Candidates must successfully pass a background screening and fingerprinting, must be
able to live and work in the United States, and will be required to pass a drug test. Interview
and relocation expenses are not offered.

Additional Information:
Hours Per Week: 40 Hours, exempt
Schedule: Generally, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm, Monday – Friday, evenings and weekends may be
required.

Primary Work Location: Orange County Regional History Center, 65 E. Central Blvd., Orlando,
FL 32801 with significant portions of time spent at the offsite facility located approximately 30
minutes from the museum.

Salary: $21.44 – $24.78
*Potential salary exceeding the minimum is evaluated by Human Resources and the Department