The Knowledge Center (KC) seeks to become the manager of
IITA institutional repositories. To achieve this goal, the KC must develop and
support the development of digital collections repository, providing curation
and access to a wide range of digital content and media through both custom
interfaces and through existing discovery systems. The KC will also support
data management and curation for researchers in collaboration with IT.
The Digital Librarian’s role is to establish and manage the
Knowledge Center information repositories. This includes ensuring that the
storing, archiving, and taxonomical layout of information resources are
consistent across and throughout the organization. The Digital Librarian is
also responsible for developing and implementing search and retrieval
processes, as well establishing a plan to preserve digital data and
information. The Digital Librarian's duties include setting up asset catalogs,
organizing collections of material, creating and maintaining relationships
between assets, creating and enforcing naming taxonomies and metadata schema,
tagging files with relevant and accurate metadata.
Duties
Successful candidate will:
- Working
closely with researchers to advice on policies, standards and workflows
for acquisition, description, and preservation of digital collections
including text, images, audio, video and research data.
- Participating
in the design and development of services to support preservation of and
access to digitized and born-digital content.
- Developing
architecture for managing and integrating heterogeneous metadata to
facilitate interoperable discovery across systems.
- Assessing
the requirements for the new data sets to add to digital repositories,
identifying and assessing potential data sources and working with data
owners to add data incrementally to digital repositories.
- Working
with domain experts to understand the structure and relationships of data
sets, and design a representative ontology.
- Develop
a comprehensive taxonomy for organizing information resources based on
research and business goals and requirements from stakeholders.
Qualification and Experience
- Masters
degree in library/information science from an accredited institution.
- Five
years of academic or research library/information experience.
- Experience
with information repositories, digital preservation, indexing systems,
taxonomy, metadata, and data curation, and developing standards.
- Understanding
of collaborative online tools is required
- Candidate
must have excellent oral and written communication skills; display
maturity and interpersonal skills, be patient and have high stress
tolerance.
- Proficiency
in the use of computers and quick at analyzing issues
Remuneration:
We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive
fringe benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus
environment.
Method of application:
Interested applicants should forward their applications with
detailed curriculum vitae saved with their names in Microsoft word format to
IITA website no later than Two Weeks from the date of this
publication. The application must include the names and e-mail addresses of three
professional referees which must include either the Head of
applicant’s current or previous organization or applicant’s direct
Supervisor/Superior officer at work and evidence of current remuneration
package.
Deadline: 19th December 2013
Please complete our online application form using this link: http://www.iita.org/nrs-online-application.
IITA is an equal opportunity employer and particularly
welcomes applications from female candidates.
