DAMS Ingest Assistant
University of Oxford, Oxford
DAMS Ingest Assistant
£28437-£32108
University of Oxford, Oxford
- Part time
- Temporary
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 24 Sep | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
Job ref: 78449d52e07b408e8180746a7b0633d8
Location ref: Oxford
Full Job Description
You will join Imaging Services within the Bodleian Libraries, which provides digital imaging services for material from the Libraries' collections, supporting research as well as project and customer orders for the local and international community. You will play a key role in ingesting digital content created by Imaging Services into Portfolio, its Digital Asset Management System. Working with images of rare books and manuscripts, maps and modern archival material, you will audit and assess images and their technical metadata, undertake any necessary image renaming or processing, and use digitisation workflow tools to ingest images and metadata into the repository. This is a fixed-term post for 18 months, working part time for 21 hours per week ( 0.5753 FTE). The anticipated working pattern is across three days, with the exact hours and days to be agreed.
You will be highly computer literate, with experience of common software applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Adobe Acrobat, together with the ability to learn specialist software quickly. You will have experience of entering, updating and managing data where consistent formatting and classification rules apply, and excellent attention to detail, particularly when carrying out accurate and efficient data entry.
As an employer, we genuinely care about our employees' wellbeing and this is reflected in the range of benefits that we offer including:
- An excellent contributory pension scheme
- 38 days of annual leave
- A comprehensive range of childcare services
- Family leave schemes
- Cycle loan scheme
- Discounted bus travel and Season Ticket travel loans Diversity Our staff and students come from all over the world, and we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture. Diversity is positively encouraged, through diverse groups and champions, as well as a number of family-friendly policies, such as the right to apply for flexible working and support for staff returning from periods of extended absence, for example, shared parental leave.