About Fordham:

Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its nine colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United Kingdom.

The University offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plans; life insurance; short and long-term disability; employee assistance program (EAP); tuition remission; and generous time off.

Successful candidates should have a knowledge of and commitment to the goals of Jesuit Education.

Department: Library RH

Campus: Rose Hill (RH) - Bronx

Position Summary:

Essential Functions:

• Manages the appropriate consistency of collection and item-level description and quality control across all digital collections.
• Consults with Fordham University stakeholders about best metadata practices, workflows and tools to facilitate research data management.
• Participates in library digital projects using CONTENTdm or other digital collections software. Keeps abreast of developments in electronic publishing
• Develops documentation for the creation and application of metadata and provide training and consultation to faculty and library staff.
• Provides leadership in the development and management of metadata curation and assessment
• Assists in the development of plans, practices, workflows and priorities with in the unit.
• Supervises and trains students and staff members working on metadata quality control and database management projects.
• Creates and maintains local documentation on metadata standards and application guidelines.
• Develops and provides training to university community regarding resource description and metadata management.
• Oversees the harvesting of the library's digital collections for ingestion into larger initiatives (ATLA Digital Library, JSTOR, DPLA, etc.)
• Ensures copyright compliance on all of the library's digital initiatives.
• Prepares grant proposals

Required Qualifications:

• M.L.S. from an ALA accredited institution
• Minimum of 2 years' experience in technical services of an academic library
• Experience in creating, editing and transforming metadata
• In-depth knowledge of an integrated library system, Sirsi Symphony highly preferred.
• Experience using OCLC Connexion and CONTENTdm
• Working knowledge of a variety of resource description standards, formats and schemes including but not limited to RDA, Dublin Core, XML, BIBFRAME, MARC bibliographic and authority formats.
• Professional experience with non-MARC metadata standards.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a strong commitment to teamwork.
• Aptitude for technology and a willingness to learn new systems, software and data manipulation tools.
• Experience in grant writing

EEO Statement:

Fordham University is committed to excellence through diversity and welcomes candidates of all backgrounds.

Fordham is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories