Job Title:  Digital Archivist (f/m/d)

The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (Blinken OSA Archivum) at Central European University (CEU) based primarily in Budapest, but with teaching tasks in Vienna, Austria invites applications for the Digital Archivist position.

Blinken OSA Archivum is part of Central European University (www.ceu.edu), one of the most multinational graduate institutions in Europe, engaged primarily in the humanities and social sciences. The Archivum is a complex institution of memory that supports scholarship, is engaged in research, is the initiator of high visibility public programs, and manages the Archives and Evidentiary Practices specialization at the History and Legal Studies Departments at CEU. The Archivum is also an “archive of last resort”, the archive of (politically and otherwise) endangered collections.

Blinken OSA Archivum hopes to attract a unique intellectual who is ready to experiment and to take calculated professional and intellectual challenges; who is passionate about new archival and library theories, technologies, trends in digital media, digital humanities, and open access; and who is highly knowledgeable about emerging IT solutions.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Administering specific digital preservation software, including document retrieval and dissemination
• Digitizing analogue materials, post-processing and handling lifecycles of digital objects
• Managing existing born-digital materials
• Creating and maintaining metadata records on the creation, organization, description, storage, and preservation of digital files
• Providing theoretical know-how and support in digitization
• Understands the use and problems of archiving digital objects
• Provides a periodical review of digital preservation activities
• Works together with the Archivum’s unit on reporting and improving of digitization projects

Qualifications

• ECDL certificate preferred
• General knowledge of file formats and file management
• Reading and understanding manual instructions
• Relevant experience in digital records management
• Experience working in a networked environment
• General knowledge of archival theory and digital records management
• Good analytical, interpersonal, time management, and organizational skills
• Excellent written and oral communication abilities in English
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and meet deadlines
• Ability to work creatively, both independently and collaboratively

What CEU offers

We offer a competitive salary as well as a dynamic and international academic environment. The initial contract is for 10 months with the possibility of renewal.

How to Apply

Please submit your CV and motivation letter.

CEU is strongly committed to the promotion of gender equality and equal opportunities within our institution. Previous training, work experience and/or engagement with matters of equality, diversity and inclusion at the organizational level will be an asset.

Central European University does not discriminate on the basis of—including, but not limited to—race, color, national and ethnic origin, religion, gender and sexual orientation in administering its educational policies, admissions policies, employment, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

About CEU

One of the world’s most international universities, a unique founding mission positions Central European University as both an acclaimed center for the study of economic, historical, social and political challenges, and a source of support for building open and democratic societies that respect human rights and human dignity. CEU is accredited in the United States and Austria, and offers English-language bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in the social sciences, the humanities, law, environmental sciences, management and public policy. CEU enrolls more than 1,400 students from over 100 countries, with faculty from over 50 countries.

In 2019, CEU relocated from Hungary to Austria as the Hungarian government revoked its ability to issue US-accredited degrees in the country. As a result, CEU offers all of its degree programs in Vienna, Austria; and retains a non-degree, research and civic engagement presence in Budapest, Hungary, through its CEU Democracy Institute, the Institute for Advanced Study, the CEU Summer University and The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA), and its Hungarian language public educational programs and public lectures.

For more information, please visit https://www.ceu.edu/.