Digital Media Preservation Technician

Job description
The Audiovisual Conservation Technician plays a crucial role in ensuring the preservation and accessibility of the NFSA's audiovisual collection. The successful candidate will be responsible for preparing AV materials for digitization, condition reporting, and contributing to procedure and workflow development.

Key Responsibilities

Prepare AV collection material, including repair to preservation standards, for internal and external collection access requests.
Undertake a range of AV conservation treatments including examination and research.
Examine and identify content of AV materials in their various formats, to ascertain intellectual and physical content.
Engage with and provide recommendations for collection material in accordance with NFSA policies such as selection or deselection of AV materials.
Document collection condition and interrogate data and technical records in Collection Data Management systems.
Contribute towards updating and developing AV conservation procedures, guidelines and workflows as required.