The Imperial War Museum is undertaking a major project to procure and
implement a collections management system, comprising collections, library
and archive elements. This is coupled with a project to implement an
integrated digital asset management system.
The project will ensure that the Museum can centralise collections
information from its eight collecting departments, covering the widest
range of media.
The museum is now looking to recruit the following additional staff for
this project:
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title: Digital Collections Officer
Department: Collections Management (DCM)
Responsible to: Documentation Manager
Salary Range: £26,600 to £30,100
Duration To end of June 2009
Purpose of the Job
The post holder will be the first point of contact for users of the
Digital Asset Management System (DAMS), making decisions concerning the
appropriate support mechanism for the resolution of system issues. The
DCO will act as a solver Unit on the ICT Help Desk, working closely with
ICT to ensure issues are dealt with by the appropriate party.
The DCO will also liaise with the ICT department concerning the networked
environment of the collections management systems and will document and
maintain a knowledge and awareness of the network aspects of the
Collections Cataloguing and Management System (CCMS) and Library
Management System (LMS) through liaison with the Collections Systems
Officer. All these systems will be based on Microsoft SQL Server. The
post holder will work closely with the relevant supplier to ensure that
any and all of these systems work together in an integrated manner.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title: Collections Systems Officer
Department: Collections Management (DCM)
Responsible to: Documentation Manager
Salary Range: £26,600 to £30,100
Duration Established
Purpose of the Job
The post holder will be the first point of contact for users of
collections management systems including the Collections Cataloguing and
Management System (CCMS) and Library Management System (LMS), making
decisions concerning the appropriate support mechanism for the resolution
of system issues. The Collections Systems Officer will act as a solver
Unit on the ICT Help Desk, working closely with ICT to ensure issues are
dealt with by the appropriate party.
The Collections System Officer will also liaise with the ICT department
concerning the environmental aspects of the collections management systems
and will maintain a knowledge and awareness of the environmental aspects
of the Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) through liaison with the
Digital Collections Officer. Both the CCMS and LMS will be based on
Microsoft SQL Server. The post holder will work closely with the supplier
(Adlib) to ensure that any and all of these systems work together in an
integrated manner.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title: Data Standards Assistants x 2
Department: Collections Management
Responsible to: Documentation Manager
Salary: £18,986 to £21,984
Duration: To end of June 2009
Purpose of the Job
The Data Standards Assistant will be responsible for cleaning and
inputting collections data as part of the Museum’s project to migrate to a
new collections management system. The postholder will work as part of the
project team, working across the datasets to ensure users have access to
clean, consistent and accurate collections information.
Starting salary for all the above posts is normally at the minimum of the
range depending on experience. Salary increases are in line with the
Museum’s Performance Pay Scheme.
For more detailed job descriptions, details of interview dates and an
application pack for any of the above posts please visit our website
www.iwm.org.uk and send your completed application form to
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The closing date for receipt of applications is midday, Monday 10 December
2007 (Collections Systems Officer and Data Standards Assistants) and
midday, Monday 17 December 2007 for the Digital Collections Officer post.
Bryn Hammond
Collections Systems Manager
Department of Collections Management
Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road
LONDON SE1 6HZ
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