Archival Assistant (Part-Time), SAADA

Posted by South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) on November 19, 2024

SAADA (South Asian American Digital Archive), is seeking an Archival Assistant to support us in further solidifying SAADA as a national leader in community-driven storytelling. If you are a creative, conscientious, and detail-oriented individual, we invite you to come build with us!

About the Role

The Archival Assistant will support the maintenance and growth of SAADA’s post-custodial digital archive and digital participatory platforms (like our award-winning First Days Project and Road Trips Project), to ensure their place as nationally recognized trusted resources for scholars, educators, artists, filmmakers, students, and community members.

Your Role & Responsibilities

• Organize, arrange, and process newly digitized or born-digital materials, including image rotation, cropping, and editing.
• Add items to the archive and digital platforms, creating metadata to support digital collection discoverability and accessibility.
• Review and publish stories on participatory digital platforms, ensuring quality, metadata accuracy, and consistency.
• Digitize analog materials, maintaining adherence to preservation standards.
• Review archival items for metadata accuracy, ensuring consistency and relevance.
• Accurately transcribe archival materials through utilization of software and manual transcription, maintaining linguistic nuances and context.
• Assist in managing equipment, tools, and resources for digitization projects.

Full job description and application information.