CLOCKSS seeks Collections Management Consultant

Digital Preservation Coalition; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A digital preservation organization is seeking a Collections Management Consultant to help identify and resolve collection management challenges. This role requires experience in academic libraries or digital archives and strong skills in policy setting and collaboration. The consultant can work remotely and will contribute to the preservation of human knowledge over the coming years.

Qualifications

• Experience with collections management in an academic library or digital archive context.
• Strong strategic thinking and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Identify, assess, and document collection management challenges.
• Work collaboratively with global colleagues and strategic partners.
• Contribute to policy setting and implementation.

Skills

Collections management skills

Policy setting

Experience in academic library

Ingenuity

Tenacity

Job description

• CLOCKSS seeks Collections Management Consultant

CLOCKSS seeks Collections Management Consultant

8 February 2024

CLOCKSS seeks consultancy support to help us systematically identify, assess, and document an array of collection management challenges and to resolve these in partnership with the CLOCKSS community. These challenges were rare but are growing in frequency and number now that the archive is 15 years old, and the volume of content made available for post-disappearance access grows.

CLOCKSS is a dark archive which means that we do not make content accessible until a trigger event occurs. This typically involves the closure of a journal or disappearance of the publisher. After investigation, we bring content that has disappeared from the web out of the dark archive and make it bright by making it available in perpetuity under an Open Access license (https://clockss.org/triggered-content/ ).

This is an exciting project that will help contribute to the preservation of human knowledge for future generations. Tenacity, ingenuity, and excellent collections management skills are essential as is experience with collections management in an academic library or digital archive context. Highly desirable would be experience with policy setting and an understanding of the spectrum of scholarly publishers and research integrity issues.

The ability to work effectively independently and in collaboration with colleagues, the broader international CLOCKSS community, and our strategic partners is essential. This project is focused on policy setting then implementation, and so requires an individual or team able to think strategically at a high level and then follow through with attention to detail.

The consultant can be based in any time zone as long as you can work effectively with global colleagues who are at present primarily located in the Americas and Europe. We anticipate an effort equivalent to .5 FTE will be required in the first instance.