Digital Preservation Manager - Curatorial Grade D

Code4lib; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) seeks a Digital Preservation Manager (Curatorial Grade D) to lead the Preservation and Collections Management team. Based in Belfast, you will oversee digital preservation and web archiving operations, ensuring alignment with departmental targets and standards.

You will design and implement preservation workflows, manage assets, and work with stakeholders to enhance ingest, preservation, and access to born-digital material across NI public

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team for operational delivery of digital preservation and web archiving in line with PRONI and Departmental targets
• Maintain and develop digital repository systems and services and identify opportunities for improvements
• Design, implement, document and maintain digital preservation workflows, validation processes and preservation actions
• Manage digital assets and preservation ensuring compliance with information governance, cybersecurity, metadata and standards
• Work with stakeholders and contribute to review PRONI’s capacity for ingest, preservation and access to born-digital records
• Develop digital transfer, preservation and access systems, tools and workflows for ingest of public sector born digital material
• Review sound/audio-visual digital preservation capabilities and benchmark against best practice

Job 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 withinthe 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 andidentifying opportunities for systems improvements; designing, implementing, documentingand maintaining digital preservation workflows, validation processes, and preservation actions;managingdigital assets and preservation ensuring compliance with information governance, cybersecurity, metadata, and digital preservation standards and good practices; working effectively with stakeholders; contributingto 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.