Responsibilities Overview
The Helis Foundation Digital Collections Manager (DCM) for the Jazz & Heritage Archive is a full-time staff member who leads the continued implementation, maintenance, and expansion of the Archive’s digital preservation program, started in 2019. The DCM is responsible for managing the acquisition, description, organization, and access of digital materials for the Archive, as well as maintaining the computing and storage systems necessary for the management and preservation of the digital collections. The DCM also plays a lead role in acquisition of and providing access to the Archive’s digital materials; communicates with staff at the Foundation, WWOZ, and Festival Productions to facilitate the delivery of digital materials to network attached storage to ensure digital content is properly preserved and can be accessed appropriately by each entity. The DCM actively reviews the digital storage infrastructure to reduce risks of obsolescence and failure and verifies the health and attendance of the Archive’s digital assets. The DCM works with other Archive staff members to provide efficient and long-term access to the Archive’s digital content for identified user communities.
About the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Archive
The Jazz & Heritage Archive is in a small Creole Cottage in the French Quarter. About one third of the space is storage and we have six offsite storage areas in three states. There are two full time archivists. The main Foundation offices and the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center, which houses our music school and most public programs are a mile away in the Treme neighborhood. The Foundation is an ambitious organization with lots of programming and active staff who care deeply for the New Orleans artistic and cultural community.