Hi all,
Job extended until Feb 17, 2023. (apologies for original extension date being incorrect)
Link: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/701067500
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out to me at pmid@loc.gov. Please share with anyone who you think might be interested.
Thanks for reading!
Patrick
Posting:
The Head of the Recorded Sound Processing Unit for Archival Description is responsible for planning, recommending, and establishing policy, priorities, and activities for staff performing various processing tasks with our unpublished sound recordings, manuscript collections, and related materials. This position is located in the Recorded Sound Section, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC) in the Researcher and Collections Services and reports to the Head of Recorded Sound.
The Recorded Sound Section seeks a candidate who is dedicated to responsible stewardship, discoverability and access, and building a community of practice, illustrated by the following principles:
Cultivate and Curate. Be a Nationally and Internationally recognized collection, comprising the history of the mediums, genres, and modalities of recorded sound and associated materials. We establish physical and intellectual control over our collection and are charged with growing and developing it, so it reflects its creators, donors, and patrons, and represents the creative output and history of the American people and the World.
Access is the mission. In all we do, we strive to increase discovery of and access to our collections. We work through problems, barriers, and challenges to provide Congress and our patrons with access to content and metadata. We work to resolve issues that prevent access, and we dedicate ourselves to pursuing access for all.
Resource for all. We are more than an archive that is a collection of things. We are a collective of knowledge and skills. We curate, conserve, describe, preserve, and provide access to our collections and act as a resource to share our knowledge and skills with all; to build a shared community of practice and facilitate open discussions around topics concerning the curation, conservation and preservation of our shared recorded sound history.
Responsibilities and Duties:
The Head for Archival Description serves as a description (non-MARC) expert in a subject area or format, specifically recorded sound and associated manuscript collections. Serves as an expert in the organization, development, prioritization, and implementation of multiple and concurrent projects relating to the arrangement and description of the Section's collections. Serves as project and team leader, or chairperson for working groups, task forces, committees. Solves highly complex problems relating to different descriptive and collections management activities. Organizes, develops, schedules, implements, and leads training projects for a wide variety of materials related to collections access and management activities.
Assures finding aids and descriptive records adhere to national and international standards and develops local standards as needed. Advises and informs others on descriptive policies and procedures and interprets policy to assist in the resolution of problems; participates in studies of proposed changes to policies and practices. Pursues innovation in descriptive work to provide access to the collections. Contributes to the development of new practices and/or standards, particularly those relating to the creation of metadata for digital audio files and related digital objects.
Participates in planning of section goals and objectives. Identifies, proposes and directs improvements in methods, workflows and procedures. Coordinates details involved in special projects of the Library and the field of recorded sound archiving.
Supervises a group of employees performing work up to the GS-13. Provides administrative and technical supervision to accomplish the unit's work. Performs the administrative and human resource management functions for staff supervised. Establishes guidelines and performance expectations for staff, which are communicated through the formal employee performance management system. Observes workers' performance; demonstrates and conducts work performance critiques. Provides informal feedback. Evaluates employee performance. Resolves informal complaints and grievances. Develops work improvement plans, recommending personnel actions as necessary. Effects disciplinary measures as appropriate to the authority delegated in this area. Reviews and approves or disapproves leave requests. Assures subordinates are trained and fully comply with the provisions of the safety regulations.
Establishes and maintains professional relationships with archivists, librarians, preservation engineers and other specialists in order to share resources and information as well as to coordinate workflow within the NAVCC and the Library.
Salary and Hours:
Salary range reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area. (GS-1410-13: $112,015 - $145,617 per year)
Position is flexitime (Gov't speak for flexible start times within core set hour band)
Position is currently telework eligible but not fully remote (up to 2 days a week or 4 days a pay period remote)
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Patrick Midtlyng
Head, Recorded Sound Section
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Patrick Midtlyng
Head, Recorded Sound Section
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