The Five Colleges of Ohio are recruiting a Mellon Digital Initiatives Coordinator (two-year position).
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
The Five Colleges of Ohio consortium seeks nominations and applications for the position of Mellon Digital Initiatives Coordinator, a challenging and wide-ranging position with responsibilities to help lead the consortium in developing a collaborative infrastructure for our digital initiatives. This full-time, two-year position, funded as part of the Next-Generation Library project supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will report to the NGL Project Director and the NGL Technical Infrastructure committee chair. To read about the grant, go here: http://www.ohio5.org/announcements.htm The Mellon Digital Initiatives Coordinator will work closely with a NGL Infrastructure Committee and NGL Steering Committee in carrying out the goals of the grant, including: training and coordination of professional development opportunities for staff in digitization technologies, metadata creation, and digital project workflow management; recommending appropriate software and hardware purchases to support digitization projects; designing model workflows and documentation for local and consortial digitization projects; and working in collaboration with other project staff to customize existing digital collections and collection interfaces. The Mellon Digital Initiatives Coordinator will also collaborate with consortial staff to develop a NGL project web space to facilitate staff communication, project documentation, and training. The site will also serve as a public portal to showcase digital collections, project best practices, and pedagogical applications utilizing the collections. The home-base office for the position could be at any of the consortial colleges, although Oberlin College is the preferred location. Frequent travel to other consortial sites and extensive use of web-based communications, ensuring that all five campuses receive the support they need, will be essential parts of the position.
