Digital Media Technician, Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage

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Job Summary

The Digital Media Technician will play a central role in the development and delivery of Unearthed: Forgotten Histories and support the digital archive, educational, volunteer work, cultural programming and documentation and user access.

Job Description

The Digital Media Technician will play a central role in the development and delivery of Unearthed: Forgotten Histories and support the digital archive, educational, volunteer work, cultural programming and documentation and user access. Providing digitisation and editing services ensuring that all work is carried out to the relevant technical standards and provide digital content for preservation, display and engagement purposed and or specific projects.

You will work closely with the Heritage Manager and Collections Archivist to establish and maintain rigorous and robust approaches to digital archiving and preservation and advise on specifications, quality control and verification processes to meet agreed quality standards and deadlines, assisting in leading Serendipity towards relevant industry accreditations.

The role will involve providing technical support with exhibitions, commissions and educational resources, AV installations and maintenance.

Working with digital media formats or audio-visual technologies and equipment, you will be able to recognise and diagnose technical problems, understand the potential issues and challenges of digital preservation and access requirements. By providing regular and disciplined media management for central and local storage you will ensure that digital media is well managed, available and secure.

Managing all technical equipment relating to digital preservation and access operations, including software and associated data storage peripherals in order meet digital acquisition, preservation and access objectives.

Providing a range of technical functions including media management, normalisation, quality control and ingest to the organisation's digital preservation infrastructure.

Job Requirements

  • Undertake the digitisation of collections as required.
  • Work alongside the Collections Archivist to support, maintain and improve a robust digital infrastructure and ensure that digital polices are met.
  • Support the Collections Archivist in developing and updating digital workflows to industry standards.
  • Support the Collections Archivist in the research and cataloguing of media collections.
  • Improve the condition of the media collections by implementing cyclical quality audits.
  • Digitise and/or photograph collections from Serendipity's Living Archive for customer supply, engagement and preservation, ensuring the relevant technical standards are adhered to.
  • Quality check output before supply to users and transfer to digital archive storage.
  • Provide guidance and expertise on best practice to colleagues who are engaged in acquisition, access and preservation of audio-visual media with regards to digital documentation and preservation.

Job Responsibilities

  • Carry out such other duties as may be reasonably requested by their line manager, or any more senior manager commensurate with the grade of the role.
  • Travel to locations across the county and beyond as required (please note that reasonable adjustments will be considered for this factor as required by the Equalities Act).
  • Compliance with GDPR and Data Protection legislation and confidentiality.
  • Compliance with health and safety policies and procedures, and risk assessments.
  • Share in Serendipity's commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
  • Be aware of Serendipity's Equality and Diversity policies and actively promote equality of opportunity and diversity and inclusion for all staff, contractors, volunteers and stakeholders.
  • Commitment to continual professional development
  • Ensure proper record keeping, filing and archiving of all communications and documentation related to your area of work.

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How to Apply

To apply, please send us your CV outlining your skills and experience and a written statement and/or an audio/video presentation stating how you meet the person specification for the position of Digital Media Technician.

Your application should be sent to opportunities@serendipity-uk.com, with the words ‘Digital Media Technician’ followed by your name in the subject heading. The deadline for applications is 5.00pm on 30 June 2023.

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