The DPC seeks to appoint a Preservation Registry Analyst. This new post will deliver programmatic improvements in digital preservation capacity on behalf of the DPC’s global membership, by improving the user experience and usefulness of a defined set of community-owned and community-maintained registry services and related information sources. This role will work to join up existing registry efforts through the support and development of a ‘Digipres Wikibase’ registry as part of the new “Building registries of digital preservation good practice” project.
In this exciting new role you will work to enhance existing digital preservation registries and maximize their usefulness for practitioners and preservation services. You will develop facilities to populate appropriate registries automatically or semi-automatically with good practice information. You will seek to coordinate registry activities and develop innovative ways to combine, analyse and enhance registry data in a way which will support digital preservation activities across the DPC membership and beyond.
This post is available as direct employment or secondment. Employment will be under standard conditions articulated in the DPC staff handbook. The DPC’s staffing structure is tied to the UK Academic-Related salary scales. The post is offered at Grade 7, points 32- 39 (38,474-47,047 GBP) full time and on a fixed term basis for two years. The successful candidate will be appointed at a point on the scale consistent with previous employment and skills and a market supplement is available to match the salary of outstanding candidates. The role is initially fixed for a term of 2 years, with an aim to review and make permanent at the end of that period.
The DPC seeks to recruit the best possible candidate and can be flexible about the place of employment. It is expected that most of the work for this post will be remote. This, added to our desire to recruit the best possible candidate means that, excepting egregious complications that may arise from time zones or taxation, we welcome applications from around the world.
Questions about this role should be addressed to paul DOT wheatley AT dpconline.org or william DOT kilbride AT dpconline.org
Applications should be submitted by email to william DOT kilbride AT dpconline.org not later than 0900 (BST) on Tuesday 26th September 2023. Applications should consist of a short cover letter explaining how the candidates’ skills match the person description, and an application form in line with the person specification. Full CVs illustrating relevant experience and qualifications are welcome but will not be used for shortlisting. Shortlisted candidates will be required to present themselves for interview which is scheduled to take place online on 12th or 13th October.
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