What are the responsibilities and job description for the Archival Processing Manager position at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens?
About Us
At The Huntington, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to support and promote the appreciation of the humanities, the arts, and botanical science. The Huntington is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, disability, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law.
The Huntington
Founded in 1919, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is a collections-based research and educational institution open to the public, housing world-class library, art, and botanical collections. Its mission is to support research and promote education in the arts, humanities, and botanical science and to display and interpret its extraordinary resources for diverse audiences.
The Culture
Here we are committed to the highest of standards in all that we do - from preserving and protecting the collections, to exhibitions, educational and scholarly programming, visitor and reader services, and beyond. Achieving excellence across these pursuits requires a diversity of perspectives, expertise, experience, and methodologies. We are better together. We believe an explicit commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion directly impacts and improves staff and audience engagement and experience.
Job Description
About the Role
The Huntington Library seeks an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and collaborative archivist to lead and manage the team dedicated to processing archives, literary and historical manuscripts, printed ephemera, photographs, and visual collections. The Archival Processing Manager plays a primary role in designing and managing a user-centered, access-driven approach to processing archival collections across a wide range of collecting areas. The successful candidate will oversee team activities including creating processing plans, setting goals and timelines, evaluating outcomes, and providing quality control for archival description. Reporting to the Head of Library Technical Services, the Archival Processing Manager works collaboratively to set priorities and determine appropriate levels of description in consultation with curators. The Archival Processing Manager provides leadership in the creation of policies, procedures and workflows, and standards compliance in archival description and implements successful strategies to support these activities.
S / he / they will demonstrate a background of working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds, using a welcoming, inclusive, and accessible approach.
Essential Functions
- Leads and manages a team of ten that includes nine full-time professional archivists and one archival processing assistant dedicated to processing archives, literary and historical manuscripts, printed ephemera, photographs, and visual collections. Oversees team activities including creating processing plans, setting goals and timelines, evaluating outcomes, and providing quality control for archival description.
- Oversees the contribution of all encoded finding aids to the Online Archive of California.
- Collaborates with curators to set priorities and develop long-range plans to facilitate access and delivery of archival collections, including born-digital.
- Works collaboratively with team leaders in Library Technical Services and others to create and implement policies, procedures, productive workflows and standards compliance to ensure a user-centered, access-driven approach to archival processing.
- Coordinates creation of NACO records for the team and trains staff in RDA-NACO practices.
- Collaborates with team leaders in Technical Services and colleagues across the library to design efficient workflows to contribute metadata for the digital program.
- Designs, coordinates and leads training program for archival processing.
- Assesses emerging technologies and implements and applies tools used in the special collections and archival communities, such as ePADD and BitCurator.
- Monitors current developments, trends and emerging technologies in the field of archives and special collections and engages with the professional community on a local, state or national level.
Other Functions
Candidate Requirements and Experience
Knowledge, skills, and abilities :
Experience :
Working Conditions
Compensation & Benefits
We provide competitive compensation, generous benefits and perks for all eligible employees including :
The Application Process : DEADLINE of December 6, 2024
Please submit a cover letter and CV / resume as a single PDF attachment.
You will have the opportunity to submit additional documents on the "My Experience" section of the application.
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Salary : $90,000 - $100,000
