Title of the position: Digital Archivist

Department:Product Management

Reports to: Content Production Manager

Type of Position:  Full time         Hours per Week:  40 Pay:  Exempt

Role Overview 

The Digital Archivist will acquire, catalog, manage, and protect the organization’s digital assets. This role will utilize and administer a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system to efficiently organize and access these assets, design organizational schemas, and set cross-departmental standards. This role collaborates with project stakeholders and teams to develop its digital asset management strategy and vision. The role also includes managing, implementing, and regularly improving the organization’s digital asset management platform, Canto, as well as determining user best practices and communicating those across the organization.

With in-depth knowledge and understanding of the Canto platform, the Digital Archivist is responsible for leading the organization’s development and management of assets within this system.
This role reports to the Content Production Manager within the Product Management team.

Company Overview

Teachstone® was founded in 2008 to deliver the Classroom Assessment Scoring System® (CLASS®) nationwide and around the globe. Developed through years of research, the CLASS observation tool measures the interactions between teachers and children, which have been shown to drive learning and lifelong achievement. Teachstone helps organizations conduct classroom observations and provides professional development so that teachers improve and children learn more. Our online subscription service, myTeachstone, simplifies CLASS implementation by combining observation data with a robust library of CLASS resources and professional development.

At Teachstone, everything we do is about improving the ways teachers interact with their students. We train coaches and observers, build and deliver online support programs, design professional development – all of it grounded in one proven fact: the interactions teachers have with students have a lasting impact on their academic and developmental success. By helping educators describe, measure and improve their interactions and relationships with students, Teachstone is transforming education nationwide, one interaction at a time.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creation and evolution of digital asset management capabilities by developing the in-house roadmap focused on optimized user flows, permissions, and best practice asset management.
• Discover ways to enhance the automation of tagging and asset ingestion.
• Design and implement taxonomy and metadata management strategies. 
• Perform ingesting, organizing, general asset maintenance, and management, as well as associated issue management and curating daily in the DAM system.
• Perform digital asset lifecycle maintenance activities, such as archiving and asset expiration.
• Develop training materials according to use cases for teams and the organization.
• Maintain and create various file types and versions, including hyperlinked, fillable-field, ebook (non-downloadable), watermarked, editable, or other versions of a single material.
• Make light edits/updates to files through InDesign and/or Adobe/Google/Office suites. 
• Provide updated materials to the organization’s print asset partner and proof assets ordered through inventory against the DAM system files; provide updated/correct assets as necessary.
• Maintain and contribute to standards and governance by keeping abreast of industry best practices.
• Develop more skills and expertise in digital asset curation and syndication by staying current with prevailing digital technologies and contributing to the evolution of new content formats.
• Serve as an expert on the Digital Asset Management system (DAM).

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in managing digital assets.
• Expert level knowledge of Canto.
• Working knowledge of Adobe/Google suite.
• Some knowledge of/experience with InDesign.

Teachstone is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We may use your information in aggregate to evaluate our diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.Teachstone is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to disability, you may contact us at [email protected]. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment.