Job Title: Collections Coordinator
PVN ID: VU-2006-003622
Category: Research
Location: OFFICE OF SR VC FOR UNIVERSITY RELATIONS

Job Description

General Description

The Collections Coordinator will lead efforts to fulfill the objectives of CUNY Television's project to digitize and make accessible select collections from the CUNYverse as funded by the Council for Library and Information Resources' Hidden Collections program. In collaboration with CUNY TV's archivists, the coordinator shall draft project agreements, digitization workflow, online descriptions, and related social media content. The coordinator shall also oversee inventory and receipt of collections; assessment, digitization and preservation of select objects; engagement with originating collections staff; cataloging and discoverability; rights managements; and return of physical collections.

The coordinator will perform fully supervised preservation transfers of archival audiovisual content for an ongoing project. This position will also be responsible for inventory, preparation, and treatment of said collection, management of collection metadata, and creation of specified derivatives.

This is a temporary position for an eighteen-month appointment which is eligible for health insurance (including medical, hospital, prescription, and vision coverage).

Other Duties

  • Inventory and preparation of archival audiovisual recordings
  • Serve as a liaison with involved CUNY collection to ensure project participants are well-aware and involved in the progress of the project
  • Design and host strategy conferences with representatives from collecting institutions, project advisors, and project staff
  • Arrangement for collection 
  • Audiotape and videotape digitization to preservation standard specifications
  • Fulfill descriptive, technical and preservation metadata requirements
  • Subtitling and captioning work to ensure that content meets CUNY's accessibility requirements
  • Audiovisual processing to create access files, logs, checksums
  • Maintaining comprehensive and detailed transfer logs
  • Quality control

Qualifications

  • Knowledge of current archival best practices in relation to audiovisual preservation
  • Experience working with and/or maintaining legacy audiovisual technology
  • Experience in content description, taxonomy development, technical and descriptive cataloging
  • Understanding of audiovisual signal flow and digitization quality control
  • Familiarity with analog audiovisual workflows
  • Familiarity with audiovisual accessibility, such as subtitling, transcription, and captioning
  • Excellent written and communication skills
  • Ability to work independently
  • Knowledge of audiovisual digitization, quality control
  • Extensive interest in audiovisual technology and preservation
  • Ability to lift 40lbs.

RFCUNY Benefits

RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals

About the Research Foundation

The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.

RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer. It is the policy of the Research Foundation of CUNY to provide equal employment opportunities free of discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic violence victim status, arrest record, criminal conviction history, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Key Features

Department
CUNY Television
Status
Part Time
Pay Range
$32.00-$32.00
Hour(s) a week
32.00
Closing Date
Aug 19, 2020 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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