Digital Librarian at IITA - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

Duties
Successful candidate wiil:

•       closely with researchers to advice on policies, standards and workflows for acquisition, description, and preservation of digital collections inciuding text, images. audio, video and research data.
•    Participating in the design and development of services to support preservation of and access to digitized and born-digital content.
•    Developing architecture for managing and integrating heterogeneous metadata to facilitate interoperable discovery across systems.
•    Assessing the requirements for the new data sets to add to digital repositories, identifying and assessing potential data sources and working with data owners to add data incrementally to digital repositories.
•       Working with domain experts to understand the structure and relationships of data setsand design a representative ontology.
•    Develop a comprehensive taxonomy for organizing information resources based on research and business goals and requirements from stakeholders.

Qualification and Experience

• Masters degree in library/information science from an accredited institution.
• Five years of academic or research library/information experience.
• Experience with information repositories, digital preservation, indexing systems, taxonomy, metadata, and data curation, and developing standards.
• Understanding of collaborative online tools is required
• Candidate must have excellent oral and written communication skills: display maturity and interpersonal skills, be patient and have high stress tolerance.
• Proficiency in the use of computers and quick at analyzir1g issues

REMUNERATION:
We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive fringe benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.