Digital Collections Support Officer

1 week ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE06: £31,396 - £36,024 per annum**

**Library & University Collections Directorate - Digital Library**

**Open-ended (permanent)**

**Full time, 35 hours per week
**Do you want a challenging and varied role that combines technical support and working with the library’s digital world-class heritage collections?**

Working hours are 35 hours per week Monday to Friday and there is some flexibility around working hours and working from home [AM1]. Please refer to the University’s Hybrid Workplace Policy for more information.

**Responsibilities include**:

- Managing digital heritage collections, including images and associated metadata, within new and legacy digital collections systems so that they can be easily accessed and used for learning, teaching, research and other purposes. This includes migrating collections between systems.
- Undertaking configuration work within digital collections systems, based on user feedback and new technical developments
- Providing technical support for digital systems used for digitisation
- Providing training for users accessing content within digital collection systems, including updating them on new system functionality
- Ensuring preservation copies of digitised heritage collections are submitted to digital preservation, in line with the agreed digital preservation approach
- Line management of student interns / staff as needed
- Knowledge and experience of using / managing a range of file formats (PDF, JPEG, TIFF etc)
- An understanding of the requirements for managing digitised heritage collections
- Experience of providing technical / systems support in an academic / heritage contexts
- Knowledge and experience of different metadata standards
- Ability to keep up to date with new developments in an evolving professional field
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail

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**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work webpages **(opens new browser tab)

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

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