Digitisation Team Leader - Duxford, United Kingdom - Imperial War Museums

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Duxford, United Kingdom

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Description

Opportunity ID
308


Location

  • IWM Duxford

Salary
- £33,062 per annum


Hours

  • 36 hours per week

Department

  • Collections Management

Job Summary


The digitisation team converts our analogue collections to enable them to be accessed (for example through collections search) and preserved digitally.

The team undertake the work in house or contract work to third parties through frameworks. In all instances the team deliver to internal customers who then connect content with our audiences.


The digitisation team is grouped by why we digitise the collection (access or preservation) and the type of collections that we work to digitise (still or time-based media).


Our access team deliver on-demand requests to enable the collection to be used in our public, learning and commercial programmes.

Our preservation team will digitise our most vulnerable assets now, as many of the assets will no longer be in good enough condition to digitise in five years' time, this project is called Digital Futures.

The Digitisation Team Leader (Access) is a specialist leading a team. The team includes technicians, contract or fee paid staff and volunteers. Third-party digitisation is managed by the Digitisation Manager.

You will oversee digitisation on-demand requests and access projects for our customers and public programmes.

You will contribute to these projects at stakeholder level as a supplier at project meetings to inform decision making and to ensure progress daily.


You will have skills in digital photographic digitisation and restoration (as this will form most of your team's work) and be sufficiently skilled in time-based media digitisation to support the whole team.


You will be adept at using a wide range of high-end capture hardware and are intuitive in the use of various software packages.

Computer work is undertaken on both Apple Mac and PC machines with high quality calibrated screens in a colour managed environment.

A high level of concentration and attention to detail is a pre-requisite as are an eye and ear for historic detail.

You will ensure staff working in this area support each other with learning and keep abreast of current developments.


Your duties will include:

Management


Manage, develop and train the team of Digitisation Technicians (including contract and fee paid staff) notably: managing performance, monitoring attendance, work, undertaking staff appraisal, quarterly and annual reviews.


Manage handling of the most vulnerable materials in our care to the agreed standards of collections care and health and safety.


Deliver the portfolio of work delegated to you by your Manager within your team and contribute as a supplier of knowledge at stakeholder / project meetings.


Liaison with Project Delivery to ensure an effective flow of content to and from the stores and team and with Collections Development & Information to ensure effective ingest.

Complete management information to inform management dashboards and decisions.


Implement the Museum's policy, procedures and guidance within your team and provision of feedback to management of ideas to increase the efficiency of digitisation.


Key areas include, but are not limited to:
location and movement, environmental monitoring and control, exit.


Digitisation
Undertake digitisation to the standard set out in the job description for Digitisation Technician (Time-based media).


Quality Assurance


Manage quality assurance through spot checks and delegated checks and balances to ensure all standards are met for both in-house and third-party contracts.

In the case of the in-house teams you will work with the Digitisation Team Leader (Access) and your team to resolve any issues that arise.

This will include overseeing the team's calibration of screens, software updates and output profiles to ensure a colour managed environment and being the first point of contact for technical support.


In the case of third-party digitisation, you will undertake quality assurance and advise the Digitisation Manager of any issues arising.

The Digitisation Manager will undertake all contract management.


Health & Safety
You will implement risk assessments with the team and ensure that the team work safely. All hazards/ dangerous occurrences / equipment and accidents must be reported to your manager.

September 4th 2023, 9:00 AM


Interview Details
Interviews for this post are planned for the week commencing 11th Ssptember 202- Benefits

  • Our generous fulltime equivalent annual leave allowance is 25 days per annum plus public holidays rising to 30 days after 5 years.
  • IWM is a member of the Civil Service Pension Scheme. Employer pension contributions to the civil service pension scheme vary but are normally between 20% 24.5% dependent on salary and length of service.
  • Access to select a range of benefits to suit your personal circumstances and lifestyle via our benefits platform, IWM4me. IWM4me offers IWM staff a wid
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