Records Management Archivist

Description

The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries is hiring a Records Management Archivist to work with the University Archivist to develop an innovative approach to records management with the purpose of improving our stewardship of a university history that exists in print, digitized, and born-digital form and can come from within and outside the boundaries of official university activity.

Essential skills and knowledge areas include:

• strong technological literacy and curiosity
• deep understanding of born-digital archives and the emerging tools and techniques used to manage born-digital archives
• experience with traditional archives functions and processes
• comprehension of holistic approaches to information management that account for recorded memory that takes a variety of forms, including analog, digitized, and born-digital
• excellent interpersonal and communication skills needed when interviewing a diverse community of records creators for the purpose of discerning information management behavior and its impact on the documentation of university memory
• excellent writing and information visualization skills needed to create records retention schedules, functional requirements and other documentation, and information models
• the creativity, entrepreneurial spirit, and critical thinking competencies needed to play a crucial role in redefining institutional records management for an increasingly born-digital world in which important analog traces will endure

Questions about the position should be addressed to jsteele at jhu dot edu (no phone calls, please).  For a more prescribed list of duties and additional qualifications and to apply to this unique opportunity, please visit https://hrnt.jhu.edu/jhujobs/job_view.cfm?view_req_id=52166.