(6 Jun 2026) About You:
You are a highly skilled digital preservation and repository specialist with a passion for shaping the future of library services and digital learning at scale. Combining strategic thinking with hands-on expertise, you thrive in complex, collaborative environments where stakeholder engagement, innovation, and sustainable digital practices are central to success.
You bring demonstrated experience in digital repository stewardship, preservation workflows, metadata standards, and long-term access strategies for digital learning and teaching resources. Your ability to balance technical expertise with strong relationship management enables you to work effectively with academic and professional staff to drive adoption of sustainable digital resource management practices across the University.
A confident communicator and trusted advisor, you are experienced in leading outreach initiatives, delivering training, and providing specialist consultation to diverse stakeholder groups. You are comfortable influencing policy and practice, contributing to strategic planning and risk assessment activities, and embedding best-practice approaches to digital preservation and access.
You are adaptable, solutions-focused, and motivated by meaningful project work that delivers long-term impact. Most importantly, you are committed to innovation, collaboration, and ensuring digital learning resources remain authentic, accessible, and usable for future generations of learners and educators.
To be successful in this position, you’ll have as a minimum:
- Demonstrated experience in digital learning resource management, preservation planning, or digital content management within a university or GLAM sector environment.
- Proven ability to build relationships and influence diverse stakeholders, including technical staff, educators, and executive leaders.
- Experience delivering advocacy and outreach initiatives, including training, presentations, or publications related to digital resource preservation.
- Understanding of inclusion, diversity, and ethical considerations in digital stewardship and their application in an institutional context.
- Ability to interpret, implement, and contribute to the development of organisational digital learning resource management and preservation policies and standards.
- Familiarity with documentation of digital assets using relevant digital objects management and preservation models (e.g. OAIS), standards (e.g. PREMIS), and metadata schemas (e.g. Dublin Core, Schema.org).
The job posting in full is here.
