Grade UE07: £41,064 - £48,822 per annum
Information Services Group/Library & University Collections Directorate/Digital Library
Full‑time: 35 hours per week
Open‑ended (permanent)
What we can offer you:
* A supportive work environment offering a great variety of work, including daily interaction with the University’s world‑class heritage collections.
* A generous annual leave allowance of 40 days per year (including festive closure days), pro‑ratio for part‑time staff.
* A range of flexible working options to help you prioritise work/life balance.
* A defined‑benefit pension scheme with a substantial employer contribution.
* Access to excellent training and CPD to help you refine your skillset.
* Varied staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, support for staff wellbeing and more.
* A day of paid leave annually for your chosen volunteering activity.
* Use our reward calculator to find out the total value of the pay and benefits for this role.
Responsibilities include:
* Overseeing the day‑to‑day digitisation in L&UC’s digitisation studios, allocating work, ensuring standards (e.g. imaging/metadata) are adhered to and material is digitised effectively and efficiently to meet the needs of service users.
* Line managing digitisation staff, ensuring they are motivated to perform their roles effectively.
* Managing digitisation projects and on‑demand activity as they develop, applying agreed project/service management standards to ensure work is completed on time and within scope, and preparing regular reports outlining digitisation activity.
* Training staff in photography/digitisation techniques so that they have the skills and knowledge to carry out digitisation to the best of their ability, while emphasising continuous, ongoing improvement of processes and activities.
* Liaising with key stakeholders within L&UC including staff in conservation, metadata, and collections.
* Managing and maintaining digitisation equipment and liaising with suppliers for troubleshooting.
* Contributing to increasing staff and student understanding of digitisation processes through delivering workshops, lectures, blog posts etc.
* Undertaking photography/digitisation work as and when required to help meet project targets and deadlines.
Our ideal candidate will have:
* A relevant degree level/professional qualification and work experience, or relevant practical experience.
* Experience of running a digitisation studio and using a range of equipment for different types of requirements.
* Staff/volunteer management experience.
* Experience and knowledge of project management approaches and techniques.
* Knowledge and experience of using digital manipulation software (e.g., Adobe CC).
* Experience of recruiting staff.
* Interest in heritage collections.
* Understanding of international digitisation standards.
* Good level of IT knowledge.
* Familiarity with the full digitisation lifecycle including digital preservation, and experience of working with digital files in a DAMS.
* Excellent communication skills.
Please contact Gavin.Willshaw@ed.ac.uk if you would like to arrange an informal discussion about the post.
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