Digital Preservation Manager - Curatorial Grade D

Description

The Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) is seeking to fill a Curatorial Grade D vacancy for a Digital Preservation Manager in the Preservation and Collections Management team at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI).  PRONI is the statutory national archive for Northern Ireland and part of the Engaged Communities Group within the NI Department for Communities.

The key responsibilities of the role include leading a small team responsible for operational delivery of digital preservation and web archiving in line with PRONI and Departmental business targets; maintaining and developing digital repository systems and services and identifying opportunities for systems improvements; designing, implementing, documenting and maintaining digital preservation workflows, validation processes, and preservation actions; managing digital assets and preservation ensuring compliance with information governance, cybersecurity, metadata, and digital preservation standards and good practices; working effectively with stakeholders; contributing to a review of PRONI’s capacity in relation to ingest, preservation of and access to born digital public records from NI Departments and public sector bodies; developing digital transfer, preservation and access systems, tools and workflows for the ingest of public sector born digital material; and reviewing sound/audio-visual digital preservation capabilities, including benchmarking against best practice in this area.