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# Resource Management Specialist-Metadata & Digitization

- **Company:** Union College
- **Location:** Schenectady, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $43,680 - $46,800
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Excel, Data Analysis, Data Cleansing, Data Transformation, Metadata, Microsoft Office, Open Access, Software Engineering, Data Management, Gsuite
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=21f0c4b430154819

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree and/or a combination of relevant education, training, certifications, and/or work experience.
 * Familiarity or interest in metadata principles, data manipulation tools, and file management best practices is preferred.
 * Experience with Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) or Google Workspace.
 * Ability to analyze data and synthesize best practices, adapting to a dynamic technology and workflow environment.
 * Detail-oriented, particularly around descriptive language and handling of materials.
 * The ability to foster and enhance a thriving, diverse, inclusive, and culturally vibrant community, while promoting a sense of belonging among students, faculty and staff colleagues, and alumni.
 * Prior supervisory or instruction experience preferred.
 * Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
 * Knowledge of one or more foreign languages is desirable.
 * Prior experience working in a special collections, archival, or digital collections environment is desirable.

## Description

Position purpose: Performs digitization, metadata services, quality control, and student supervision to ensure access to digitized library materials, born-digital items, openly available materials, and scholarly works created at Union College., * Supervision: Supervises digital lab students. Trains and supervises students for digitization lab tasks. Updates documentation and training materials for student employees. Coordinates students to assist in new digital initiatives and works with librarians to complete experiential learning projects.

 * Digital Projects: Participates in optimization of digital project workflows. Assists in the production and description of digital materials for the institutional repository. Collaborates on other projects such as digital scholarship, open access, and open educational resources. Communicates and collaborates with vendors and ITS to troubleshoot equipment or software issues.
 * Data Management: Participates in workflow analysis and documentation. Participates in data cleanup, workflow improvements, and testing of new procedures. Helps refine and document current processes and create new workflows for data. Participates in general library and departmental projects. As needed, manage the batch loading and deleting of records, utilizing specialized programs and interfaces to create, manipulate, and transfer files of records for complex maintenance routines on digitized materials.
 * Archival Processing: Assists with processing and describing archival collections under the supervision of archivist colleagues.