Digital Content Archivist

M&C Saatchi World Services; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

M&C Saatchi World Services in the Washington, DC region seeks a Digital Content Archivist to manage, preserve, and govern enterprise multimedia assets across federal programs. You will work at the intersection of content operations, digital asset management, knowledge management, and communications to keep assets accessible, organized, secure, and compliant with archival standards.

The ideal candidate combines archival practices, DAM, and metadata governance with strong organizational skills and

Qualifications

• Expertise in archival principles and practices.
• Experience with digital asset management and metadata discipline.

Responsibilities

• Manage, organize, catalog, and preserve enterprise multimedia and assets.
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• Administer DAM systems and archival repositories for metadata accuracy.
• Develop and maintain inventories, finding aids, and documentation.
• Implement retention schedules and archival governance.
• Oversee asset lifecycle including ingestion, classification, and disposition.
• Ensure long-term accessibility and integrity of archived materials.
• Collaborate with content creators and stakeholders for proper tagging and ingestion.
• Support rapid retrieval of archived content for campaigns and leadership requests.
• Develop metadata standards and naming conventions.

Skills

Archival practices

DAM systems

Metadata standards

Taxonomy

Information governance

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Tools

DAM systems

Job description

About M&C Saatchi World Services

M&C Saatchi World Services is a full-service marketing company renowned for using commercial advertising to solve the world's toughest challenges. World Services is a specialty branch of M&C Saatchi Group, and we provide strategic communications, behavior change, and marketing support to Public Sector clients with special emphasis on the US Federal Government and State, Local, Tribal, & Territorial leaders.

M&C Saatchi World Services US is seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Digital Content Archivist. This role overs e the preservation, governance, and accessibility of enterprise multimedia, creative, and communications assets, ensuring institutional knowledge, historical content, and digital resources remain discoverable, compliant, and strategically available to support communications, stakeholder engagement, and mission continuity across the organization.

THE ROLE

M&C Saatchi World Services is seeking a Digital Content Archivist to manage, preserve, and govern enterprise multimedia, creative, and communications assets across a diverse portfolio of federal programs.

Working at the intersection of content operations, digital asset management, knowledge management, and communications, you will ensure that critical organizational assets remain accessible, organized, secure, and compliant with archival standards and retention requirements. You will oversee the lifecycle of digital and physical collections, maintain metadata and taxonomy frameworks, and support the long-term preservation of content that enables institutional continuity and strategic reuse.

The ideal candidate combines expertise in archival practices, digital asset management, and information governance with exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. They are comfortable working across creative, communications, technical, and operational teams to establish sustainable archival processes that improve discoverability, accessibility, and content stewardship.

This is a hybrid role; however, the ideal candidate will live in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, organize, catalog, and preserve enterprise multimedia, communications, and creative assets, including videos, photography, graphics, documents, publications, and historical materials.
• Administer digital asset management (DAM) systems and archival repositories, ensuring metadata accuracy, taxonomy consistency, and content discoverability.
• Develop and maintain archival structures, collection inventories, finding aids, indexes, and documentation that support efficient asset retrieval and governance.
• Implement archival standards, retention schedules, preservation policies, and records management practices in accordance with organizational and federal requirements.
• Oversee asset lifecycle management processes, including ingestion, classification, version control, supersession, archival, and disposition activities.
• Ensure the long-term accessibility and integrity of archived materials through preservation workflows, file migration strategies, backup procedures, and storage management practices.
• Conduct archival audits and quality assurance reviews to verify metadata completeness, repository accuracy, and compliance with governance standards.
• Collaborate with content creators, designers, videographers, communications teams, and stakeholders to ensure proper 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 system usage, metadata discipline, and content stewardship best practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve archival workflows, preservation approaches, asset management processes, and organizational knowledge management capabilities.

Key Attributes

• 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.