DAMS Ingest Assistant

Experience Oxfordshire; Kidlington; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 32,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension

38 days annual leave

Childcare services

Family leave schemes

Cycle loan

Discounted travel

Job summary

The Bodleian Libraries Imaging Services team seeks a DAMS Ingest Assistant to ingest digital content into Portfolio, audit images and metadata, and support order work for local and international users.

You should be highly computer literate with Word, Excel, Outlook and Adobe Acrobat, and capable of accurate data entry with consistent formatting; training will be provided for specialist software. This fixed-term, part-time role is 18 months, 21 hours per week, across three days.

Qualifications

• Experience entering, updating and managing data with consistent formatting.
• Excellent attention to detail for accurate data entry.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Adobe Acrobat; quick learner of specialist software.

Responsibilities

• Ingest digital content into Portfolio DAM system and manage metadata.
• Audit and assess images and their technical metadata.
• Rename and process images as required for ingestion.
• Use digitisation workflow tools to ingest images and metadata.

Skills

Data entry

Attention to detail

Microsoft Office

Adobe Acrobat

Learning new software

Job description

Job Title: DAMS Ingest Assistant
Location: Imaging Services, Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG
Hours: Part time, 21 hours per week (0.525 FTE)
Contract type: Fixed-term for 18 months
Grade: Grade 4, £28,437 – £32,108 per annum (pro rata)

About The Role

You will join Imaging Services within the Bodleian Libraries, which provides digital imaging services for material from the Libraries’ collections, supporting research as well as project and customer orders for the local and international community. You will play a key role in ingesting digital content created by Imaging Services into Portfolio, its Digital Asset Management System. Working with images of rare books and manuscripts, maps and modern archival material, you will audit and assess images and their technical metadata, undertake any necessary image renaming or processing, and use digitisation workflow tools to ingest images and metadata into the repository. This is a fixed-term post for 18 months, working part time for 21 hours per week (0.8 FTE). The anticipated working pattern is across three days, with the exact hours and days to be agreed.

About You

You will be highly computer literate, with experience of common software applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Adobe Acrobat, together with the ability to learn specialist software quickly. You will have experience of entering, updating and managing data where consistent formatting and classification rules apply, and excellent attention to detail, particularly when carrying out accurate and efficient data entry.

What We Offer

As an employer, we genuinely care about our employees’ wellbeing and this is reflected in the range of benefits that we offer including:

• An excellent contributory pension scheme
• 38 days of annual leave
• A comprehensive range of childcare services
• Family leave schemes
• Cycle loan scheme
• Discounted bus travel and Season Ticket travel loans

Diversity

Our staff and students come from all over the world, and we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture. Diversity is positively encouraged, through diverse groups and champions, as well as a number of family-friendly policies, such as the right to apply for flexible working and support for staff returning from periods of extended absence, for example, shared parental leave.

We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible. If you require the job description or any other materials in an alternative format, or if you would like to request any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process, please contact the recruitment team at [e-mail].