Digital Content Archivist

Jobtailor; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a skilled Digital Asset Manager/Archivist to oversee enterprise multimedia assets, metadata, and archival governance. You will manage DAM systems, develop taxonomies, and ensure long-term preservation, retrieval, and compliance with records management policies.

Collaborate with content creators and stakeholders to improve workflows, tagging, and content discovery while maintaining metadata accuracy and taxonomy consistency across large asset collections.

Qualifications

• Experience managing archives, DAM systems, or enterprise content collections.
• Strong understanding of archival principles, metadata standards, and information governance.
• Experience organizing large multimedia collections and assets.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and digital preservation technologies.
• Ability to obtain and maintain U.S. Government security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates expertise in managing digital asset management systems, archival standards, and metadata frameworks to ensure the integrity and accessibility of multimedia and creative assets.
• Collaborate with diverse teams to improve archival workflows and knowledge management.

Skills

Digital Asset Management

Archival Principles

Metadata Standards

Taxonomy Development

Digital Preservation

Information Governance

Records Repositories

Stakeholder Management

Cloud-based repositories

Federal government experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field

Tools

DAM platforms

Records management systems

Cloud repositories

Job description

• Manage, organize, catalog, and preserve enterprise multimedia, communications, and creative assets, including videos, photography, graphics, documents, publications, and historical materials
• Administer digital asset management systems and archival repositories
• Maintain metadata accuracy, taxonomy consistency, and content discoverability
• Develop and maintain archival structures, collection inventories, finding aids, indexes, and documentation
• Implement archival standards, retention schedules, preservation policies, and records management practices
• Oversee asset lifecycle management, including ingestion, classification, version control, supersession, archival, and disposition
• Ensure long-term accessibility and integrity through preservation workflows, file migration strategies, backup procedures, and storage management
• Conduct archival audits and quality assurance reviews
• Collaborate with content creators, designers, videographers, communications teams, and stakeholders on asset ingestion, tagging, and classification
• Support rapid retrieval of archived content for communications initiatives, leadership engagements, stakeholder requests, and mission-critical activities
• Develop and maintain metadata standards, taxonomy frameworks, naming conventions, and archival governance processes
• Provide training and guidance on archival procedures, DAM usage, metadata discipline, and content stewardship
• Identify opportunities to improve archival workflows, preservation approaches, asset management, and organizational knowledge management

Requirements

• Experience managing archives, digital asset management systems, records repositories, knowledge management platforms, or enterprise content collections
• Strong understanding of archival principles, metadata standards, taxonomy development, digital preservation practices, and information governance
• Experience organizing and managing large multimedia collections, creative assets, communications materials, or historical records
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development, UX research, accessibility, and digital experience optimization tools
• Knowledge of archival metadata frameworks, digital preservation methodologies, and content lifecycle management processes
• Experience maintaining inventories, repositories, finding aids, documentation systems, and governance standards
• Strong organizational and cataloging abilities with exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience collaborating with communications, creative, content, technical, and operational teams
• Ability to establish and maintain standards for metadata, content classification, retention, and archival governance
• Strong analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management capabilities
• Experience supporting federal government, Department of Defense, public affairs, communications, or mission-driven organizations is preferred
• Familiarity with accessibility standards, cloud-based repositories, DAM platforms, records management systems, or digital preservation technologies is preferred
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance, as required by the position
• Degree or relevant experience in Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, Psychology, Behavioral Science, Communications, Digital Strategy, Information Architecture, or a related field preferred
• Must be a United States Citizen, as required by government contract
• Must be able and willing to obtain a U.S. Government Secret or Top Secret security clearance immediately upon employment
• Must be willing to submit to a rigorous federal background investigation, including review of personal finances, criminal history, employment history, and drug use

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in managing digital asset management systems, archival standards, and metadata frameworks to ensure the integrity and accessibility of multimedia and creative assets. Proficient in collaborating with diverse teams to enhance archival workflows and support organizational knowledge management.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Digital Asset Management
• Archival Standards
• Metadata Development
• Content Lifecycle Management
• Collaboration with Creative Teams

Hard Skills

• Archival Management
• Metadata Standards
• Taxonomy Development
• Digital Preservation Practices