Digital Preservation Coalition

Vacancy - Project Manager at University of Leeds - SPRUCE Project

The University of Leeds has recently been awarded Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) funding to undertake the SPRUCE Project under JISC 12/11 Digital Preservation Funding Call. The SPRUCE Project will inspire, guide, support and enable UK Higher Education Institute’s (HEI) to address preservation gaps and to use the knowledge gathered from that support work to articulate a compelling business case for digital preservation. The Project will be led by Leeds University Library in collaboration with four partners: the British Library, the Digital Preservation Coalition, the Open Planets Foundation and the London School of Economics.

A graduate with a good knowledge of relevant issues in Higher Education, you will be able to demonstrate your experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team, and with senior business and IT/IS partners. In particular you will have experience of working in one or more of the following areas: digital content creation and/or description; digital preservation strategies, tools or techniques; business case creation and/or cost/benefit analysis; management of a JISC funded project; institutional policy creation; stakeholder evidence capture and analysis; event organisation and facilitation; formal report writing.

Professional & Managerial Grade 8 (£36,862 - £44,016 p.a.), Full time, Fixed-term until 30 November 2013. Deadline 23rd Jan 2012. For more details see: http://t.co/xkM7ltmA