Associate Data Analyst (Metadata Data Ingest) for OCLC's WorldCat

You will be part of an international team of metadata specialists (6 people in 4 countries with 5 languages spoken) and reporting to the Manager Metadata Operations. The libraries you work for, are everywhere around the world and you collaborate with colleagues from all OCLC offices - from the USA to Australia, Taiwan to Spain, and many places in between. OCLC adopted hybrid working with a minimum of 3 days a week at the office and a maximum of 2 days from home.

Do you have experience in Warehouse management system?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * Bachelor's degree in library or information science with at least 2-3 years of work experience

• Proven experience with working in a library or other data-driven organization with bibliographic or other structured metadata and a plus is to be familiar with ISBD, FOBID, AACR2, MARC21
• Proven experience with working with raw data and tools to analyze and process it (think MarcEdit, Python, UltraEdit, or equal)
• Your accuracy and analytical skills ensure that you perform your tasks carefully and are able to unravel complex issues
• Your knowledge of the English language is excellent, both in writing and in speech
• Eager to learn, open to change and able/willing to work within a culturally diverse environment
• You are not afraid to ask questions whenever and wherever needed
• Excellent communication skills

Pulled from the full job description

• Flexible schedule, * Competitive salary
• With 26 days of paid vacation days (in case of full-time employment) and the option to buy or sell 6 vacation days, your work-life balance is guaranteed
• A non-contributory pension
• An 36-40 hour working week
• Flexible hours, hybrid working options
• End of year bonus
• Group discount on health insurance
• Commuting & working from home allowance
• Coaching available 24/7 & emphasis on personal development
• Bicycle plan, company fitness and more

At OCLC, we believe you'll do the best work of your life when you're living the best life possible. We work hard to build the technology that connects thousands of today's libraries. But we also work hard to make a job at OCLC a meaningful part of a balanced life- not a substitute for one. If you would like to contribute to the growth and quality of the biggest library catalogue in the world, you found your dream job! OCLC is looking for a Metadata Specialist for WorldCat. OCLC has multiple data ingest teams worldwide. At the European headquarters of OCLC in Leiden, we are looking for a result-driven and communicative metadata specialist who will load bibliographic metadata Worldcat. Your focus In this job you transform metadata describing the collections of the library, for them to share and use in WorldCat, in support of our products and services. At first for visibility in WorldCat, later this will be expanded to WMS (WorldShare Management Services; our library management system), Discovery, and possibly also e-content, repositories, Wise, etc. Simply put, you make the metadata look good on the inside (database) so it makes its way to the outside (for staff and end-users of libraries) in the best possible way. Your focus is on analysis, testing, correcting, specifying, possibly converting, and loading data to WorldCat. Our organization, the technology we use, and the library world, are constantly changing and we want to stay current and on track. Hence, depending on your talents and interests, there are also other activities you can contribute to, like: knowledge management within the teams, writing and testing instructions and other documentation, training and improving how we train, 3rd line customer support, communicating and triaging production issues, but also testing newly developed features and giving input to developers for improving the systems you work with.