Vacancy for Digital Preservation Training Officer at University of Southampton

Digital Preservation Coalition; Southampton; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Southampton seeks a Digital Preservation Training Officer to enhance the digital preservation landscape. This full-time role requires expertise in digital preservation, with responsibilities including delivering training and developing specializations in a collaborative educational environment.

Qualifications

• Expert in digital preservation with professional qualifications.
• Experience delivering training, preferably in a cultural heritage context.
• Ability to develop a specialization and contribute to income generation.

Responsibilities

• Deliver training, advice, and support in digital preservation.
• Contribute to the Southampton Digital Preservation Advisory Unit.
• Provide outstanding services to clients and partners.

Skills

Digital preservation

Training delivery

Cultural heritage context

Education

Professional qualifications in digital preservation

Equivalent experience

Job description

Vacancy for Digital Preservation Training Officer at University of Southampton

6 September 2023

Southampton, England

£34,980 to £40,521 per annum

Full-Time

The School of Humanities at the University of Southampton encompasses a diverse range of subjects providing high-quality teaching within a vibrant research and enterprise culture. Southampton Digital Humanities contribute to that environment by enabling staff and students across the School of Humanities to take digital and computational approaches to the humanities teaching, research, and enterprise.

You will play a central role in the successful delivery of the Southampton Digital Preservation Advisory Unit, a new flagship enterprise project hosted and supported by Southampton Digital Humanities. You will deliver training, advice, and support in the domain of digital preservation, develop an area of specialism, contribute to income generation, and provide outstanding services to clients and partners. As an expert in digital preservation, you will have appropriate professional qualifications or equivalent experience. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience delivering training in a cultural heritage context, though this is not essential.

You will join a team of dedicated educators and researchers supported by recent investment in Digital Humanities expertise, estate, and resources. Notable among these is our Digital Humanities Hub, an infrastructure that supports study and research, is a hub for expertise and critique, and provides access to technologies that enable us to scan, manipulate, and preserve heritage objects, make and explore virtual worlds, compute text and multimedia, sonify pictures, immerse ourselves in data visualisations, and much more.