Program Officer, Archiving & Data Services
Open until filled. For first consideration, please apply by
1/16/2023.
Interested in a mission-driven job ensuring open access to
information for a global audience? Enjoy working to ensure a
diverse, expansive archive of the digital historical record?
Internet Archive is seeking a Program Officer for its Archiving &
Data Services team. Internet Archive is a non-profit digital
library, top 200 website at archive.org, and an archive of over
99 petabytes of digital information running in self-owned and
operated data centers. Internet Archive provides mission-aligned
services to thousands of organizations, working collaboratively
to advance the goal of “Universal Access to All Knowledge.”
We are seeking a Program Officer to help grow and expand our work
with mission-aligned cultural heritage organizations,
researchers, and social good non-profits. The role will primarily
work in our Community Programs team. Community Programs
priorities include supporting responsible computational
engagement with the cultural record (e.g., collections as data,
machine learning, text and data mining), providing a range of
digital products, services, and collaborations to increase
preservation of and access to knowledge (e.g., digital
preservation, web archiving) including for under-represented or
under-resourced communities, and strengthening memory worker and
researcher capacities (e.g., professional development, and
stakeholder convening and action). The role will work closely
with community, engineering, product, operations, and development
teams and conduct significant outreach and coordination with
external partners and stakeholders. Other responsibilities
include project management, grant management, communications, and
working with department staff to support the continuous growth
and improvement of our services and partnerships.
Key Responsibilities:
* Support implementation and growth of sustainable programs
aligned with Community Program and Archiving & Data Services
priorities.
* Support growth of regional, national, and/or international
support networks that facilitate collective ability to address
community challenges at scale.
* Work with external stakeholders to build library and archival
collections, including ensuring efforts are able to best leverage
our portfolio of products supporting preservation, research, and
open access.
* Work directly with the Community Programs team, and a diverse
and distributed team of institutional program members and their
staff and representatives, to execute a range of program
objectives, communication plans, outreach and community
management.
* Represent the program in public-facing events and professional
communities, including conferences and meetings involving public
speaking.
* Guide and help organize logistics for outreach and training
activities, including webinars, open calls, in-person events, and
online community tools.
Qualification and Skills:
* Experience leading and/or supporting initiatives or programs in
one or more of the following areas: community archives; scholarly
communication; digital preservation; research services,
collections as data, text and data mining, open source
technology.
* 3-5 years of demonstrated project management, technical
support, and/or community support experience working directly
with memory and research organizations is strongly preferred.
* Experience with grants, both grant writing and awarded grant
management, is desired.
* Experience creating roadmaps, project timelines, and ensuring
the accomplishment of both internally and externally mandated
deliverables.
* Must be able to manage multiple simultaneous projects,
contracts, deadlines, and responsibilities and work in and enjoy
a loosely-structured, dynamic work environment that includes a
globally distributed remote team.
* Candidates must have strong written, communication, and
presentation skills to represent programs at national and
international events.
* Proven experience working with remote-first teams, including
working directly with engineering and program staff at all levels
of seniority.
* Flexibility, self-reliance, and being energized by ambiguity,
possibilities, and problem-solving are valuable qualities.
* The role requires travel primarily within the United States and
Canada.
Job Details:
This is a remote-first position working in a distributed team.
Candidates will need to have some time overlap with primarily
North America (and largely Pacific Time) based colleagues.
Compensation and title will be commensurate with experience and
the role is open to candidates of varying seniority with a
general, but negotiable, salary range of $65,000 to $80,000.
References must be made available upon request.
Benefits & Perks:
The Internet Archive is a remote first workplace and provides a
comprehensive benefits package including; PTO, paid holidays, and
medical benefits. Depending on where you live, we also provide
these additional benefits; dental, vision, health savings
accounts, flex spending accounts, commuter benefits, short term
disability, long term disability and retirement programs.
At the Internet Archive, we believe we do our best work when our
employees bring together diverse ideas. Members of all groups
under represented in the tech industry and library world are
strongly encouraged to apply. We are proud to be an equal
opportunity workplace and are committed to equal employment
opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin,
age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental
disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity
or expression, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic
protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Internet
Archive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Internet Archive
complies with the Fair Chance Ordinance. Internet Archive is a
501(c)(3) non-profit library founded in 1996.
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