Digital Engagement Officer

**Job Description**:
**Job Title**:Digital Engagement Officer

**Posting Start Date**:17/10/2025

**Job Id**:1729

**School/Department**:Library

**Work Arrangement**:Full Time (Hybrid)

**Contract Type**:Fixed-term

**Salary per annum (£)**:£32,080.00

**Closing Date**:16/11/2025

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.

**Overview**

**Main duties and responsibilities**
- Enhance the visibility of key materials within the NFCA collection by delivering digital projects, exploring opportunities to use AI, handwritten text recognition (HTR), and other technologies to create valuable data sets for the research community.
- Coordinate and undertake digitisation projects, ensuring adherence to standards, and manage the upload of data to relevant systems, creating necessary metadata.
- Gather feedback and evaluate the impact of our online and in person activities, including our use of online platforms and social media, collecting statistics to assess their effectiveness in engaging with our target audiences.
- Oversee and develop the use of social media, online platforms, relevant publications, and mainstream media to increase awareness and promote the NFCA collection..
- Curate accessible digital content for outreach and exhibitions.
- Explore the potential for new projects, such as crowdsourcing initiatives, to further enhance the NFCA collection.
- Assist in planning and hosting captivating outreach events both in person and online, focusing on schools, the local community, and special interest groups, occasionally requiring evening and weekend work.
- Provide guidance and supervision to student placements and volunteers.
- Carry out other duties, commensurate with the grade and remit of the post

**Person Specification**

**Criteria**

**Essential or desirable**

**Stage(s) assessed at**
Demonstrated knowledge of digitisation methods following established standards and recommended approachesEssentialApplication/interviewExcellent ICT skills and a high level of digital literacyEssentialApplication/interviewExperience of paid or voluntary work with collections in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) sector, and familiarity with the principles of cataloguing and metadataEssentialApplication/interviewHands-on experience of organising engagement activitiesEssentialApplication/interviewAwareness of intellectual property and data protection legislation as it applies to archive collections and usersEssentialApplication/interviewStrong written and verbal communication skills, allowing for effective engagement and relationship building with individuals both within and outside the organisationEssentialApplication/interviewStrong organisational abilities, with the capacity to assess and manage resources, prioritise tasks, and successfully implement projectsEssentialApplication/interviewProven analytical and problem solving skills, coupled with the ability to work independently and take initiativeEssentialApplication/interviewKnowledge of gathering feedback and evaluating the impact of projects.
EssentialApplication/interviewPractical experience of digitisation projects using IIIF standardsDesirableApplication/interviewKnowledge of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) technologies in the context of archive collectionsDesirableApplication/interview**Further Information**

**Grade**
6**Salary**
£32,080 - £36,636**Work arrangement**
Full-time**Duration**
1 year fixed term.**Line manager**
Senior Archivist**Direct reports**
Occasional volunteers and student placements**Our website**

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**Our vision and strategic plan**
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**What we offer**
- A minimum of 38**days annual leave including bank holiday and closure days (pro rata) with the ability to purchase more.
- Flexible working opportunities, including hybrid working for some roles.
- Generous pension scheme.
- A wide range of discounts and rewards on shopping, eating out and travel.
- A variety of staff networks, providing opportunities for social interaction, peer support and personal development (for example, Race Equality, LGBT+, Women’s and Parent’s networks).
- Recognition Awards to reward staff who go above and beyond in their role.
- A commitment to your development access to learning and mentoring schemes;
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