Individual Consultancy, Content Migration. UNICEF, Budapest. Open until 8 November 2017

Individual Consultancy, Content Migration, UNICEF Global Shared Services Centre, Budapest, Hungary

Job Number: 508371 | Vacancy Link
Locations: Headquarters Locations: Hungary
Work Type : Consultancy

UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child. UNICEF has spent 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Defending children's rights throughout their lives requires a global presence, aiming to produce results and understand their effects. UNICEF believes all children have a right to survive, thrive and fulfill their potential – to the benefit of a better world.
UNICEF's Global Shared Services Centre (GSSC) in Budapest, Hungary supports UNICEF operations globally in the areas of Finance, Human Resources, Payroll and Information Technology.
The Enterprise Content Management (ECM) project’s goal is to take a systemic approach that introduces and institutionalizes Electronic Content Management (including systems, policies, procedures, standards, guidance, and governance), providing improved document and records management and retention, improved search functionality, strengthened archives management, a new digital preservation capability, content reuse and repurposing, and collaboration across UNICEF. The project also seeks to reduce risks, improve usability of tools, provide significant cost and time savings, enable new organizational capabilities and comply with several audit recommendations. These goals will be implemented in keeping with the organizational strategy and information management requirements of stakeholders in various business areas.

How can you make a difference?
The purpose of this consultancy is to support all business areas throughout UNICEF’s offices, through the content migration process.
The Communications Specialist will have day-to-day supervision of the Content Migration Consultant, while the efficacy and outcome, along with the project plans will be jointly overseen by the Communications Specialist and the ECM Senior Project Manager.

Key Responsibilities:
• Perform a document inventory of Shared Drives (SDs), SharePoint Libraries, and other file repositories
• Implement the ECM-recommended naming convention on existing content
• Implement the ECM-recommended folder structure on Shared Drives
• Analyze content with support from the ECM team and the local Subject Matter Experts and Content Owners
• Migrate content as approved
• Other tasks as needed

Deliverables:
• Content is mapped and prepared for migration to the ECM solution
• Business areas are supported in a collaborative manner in line with ECM project goals
• Participate in regional and country discussion forums
• Migrate all content as approved by business owners to ECM system for go live date

As an advocate for every child, you will have…
• A university degree in information management, computer science, or data related field or equivalent experience
• A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience working with unstructured or structured information
• Strong attention to detail
• Solid training skills/experience
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain work relationships
• Strong interpersonal and listening skills
• Understanding of SharePoint desirable
• Working knowledge of other UN language such as Spanish or French, will be considered an asset.
• Fluency in English (verbal and written) is required.

Location and Duration
• This consultancy will be performed on UNICEF Premises in Budapest, Hungary.
• The duration of this assignment is 6 months.

Application Instructions
• Please indicate your availability and daily rate (in US dollars) to undertake the terms of reference above (including travel and daily subsistence allowance, if applicable)
• Applications submitted without a daily rate will not be considered.
• All applications to UNICEF are required to be submitted through UNICEF's online recruiting system.  All applications should be in English.

Terms and conditions of the assignment
Individual consultants receive remuneration for verified output based on days worked.  Individual consultants are not eligible to participate in UNICEF’s benefits including insurance, pension, paid sick leave or annual leave.   UNICEF undertakes no liability for taxes, duty or other contribution payable by the consultant on payments made under this contract.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Opening Date Wed Oct 25 2017 09:00:00 GMT+0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Central Europe Daylight Time
Closing Date Wed Nov 08 2017 23:55:00 GMT+0100 (Romance Standard Time)

Chief Archivist. Open Society Archives, Central European University, Budapest.

Chief Archivist Position

Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives

Starting date: As soon as possible
Application deadline: Open until filled
Full or Part Time: Full -time

 


The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives at Central European University is inviting applicants to the position of Chief Archivist. OSA (https://www.ceu.edu/unit/osa ) is one of the most important Cold War and human rights archives in the world. OSA, one of the initiators of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, is fully committed to free and open access. OSA is looking for a highly talented, innovative, socially committed and technologically skilled person with foresight and impeccable integrity.

OSA invites professionals, who are passionate about new archival and library theories, technologies, new trends in digital media, digital humanities, open access, and who are highly knowledgeable about emerging IT solutions. We are looking for a good, dedicated person, who is a partner in turning archives inside out, to make sources of the past available to the wider public, who is open to intellectual, social and professional challenges and adventures.

The Chief Archivist supervises the professional staff, works closely together with and reports to the Director of OSA, and represents the Archives at professional bodies and fora (ICA, IFLA, etc.). This is an unusual opportunity for individuals interested in leading a highly dynamic, unorthodox and international professional activist community, with a special focus on working together with non-profit and intra-governmental organizations actively engaged in building open societies, protecting human rights. The Archives is working on new technologies and methodologies in authenticating documents, historical and forensic evidence. The Chief Archivist guides and advocates for the ongoing development of physical and digital collections, services, and programs to the Central European University community and the Open Society Foundations (OSF) Network globally. 

Core Responsibilities

• Provide intellectual and technological vision; Supervise and lead technological innovation and digital preservation projects to continue the implementation of the trusted repository model for long-term open access to OSA collections;
• Provide senior leadership in advancing progress of CEU's and OSF’s substantive and technological strategic goals
• Supervise the metadata & digital curation initiatives to carry out a comprehensive program for access to OSA collections
• Oversees and updates policies, procedures, and priorities for collection development, processing projects, access provisions for digital and physical special collections, creating a body of resources that supports OSA’s professional strategy
• Promote awareness of the latest professional trends– and staff expertise into university teaching, research and learning activities
• Develop partnerships to address issues and challenges facing archival and library collections, records management, and data curation in an uncertain digital environment
• Participates actively in outreach activities

Required Qualifications

• Graduate degree (preferably Ph.D.) in either information technology, or archival/library science, with demonstrated deep knowledge and interest in social sciences and humanities;
• Experience in working in challenging position at an archival or memory institution;
• Demonstrated skills to effectively supervise and lead the work of an international team of professionals;
• Proof of innovative leadership in an academic-archival setting;
• A persuasive and evolving record of intellectual accomplishments;
• Good interpersonal and management skills;
• User-oriented  approach as demonstrated by public programming, user education, and other community outreach activities
• Proficiency in English, knowledge of another language of OSA’s main collections is an advantage: Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Romanian or Bulgarian

Compensation:

Commensurate with experience. However, we offer a competitive salary, as well as a dynamic and international academic environment.

How to apply?

To apply applicants are asked to submit a short CV, naming two referees, together with a motivation letter Please send your complete application package to: applications@ceu.edu. Please include the following job code in the subject line: 2016/023.

CEU is an equal opportunity employer.

About CEU

Central European University (CEU) is a graduate research-intensive university specializing in the social sciences and humanities, public policy and management. It is located in Budapest, and accredited in the United States and Hungary. CEU’s mission is to promote academic excellence, state-of-the-art research, and civic engagement, in order to contribute to the development of open societies in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and other emerging democracies throughout the world. CEU offers both Master’s and doctoral programs, and enrolls more than 1400 students from 100 countries. The teaching staff consists of more than 180 resident faculty, from over 40 countries, and a large number of prominent visiting scholars from around the world.

The language of instruction is English.

About OSA

OSA is part of Central European University (CEU) in Budapest (www.ceu.edu), probably the most multinational graduate institution in Europe, engaged primarily in the humanities and social sciences. OSA is a complex institution of memory that supports scholarship, is engaged in research, is the initiator of high visibility public programs, and is in charge of the Evidentiary and Documentary Practices specialization at the History and Legal Studies Departments at CEU. Some members of the Archives staff are on the faculty of CEU, are engaged both in research and teaching, and advise the University in matters related to information technology and digital humanities.

OSA Archivum / Galeria Centralis - 1051 Budapest, Arany János u. 32.

Data Specialist. Open Society Archives, Budapest. Open until 10 June 2015

Data Specialist, Open Society Archives (HUN)

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Position for: Staff Unit: Open Society Archives

Full-time Starting date: August 1, 2015

Application deadline: June 10 2015

Full Or Part Time: Full-Time (40 working hours/week)

The Open Society Archives seeks a dynamic, interesting individual for a Data Specialist position to implement its new archival management system and enhance the cataloging/processing procedures at OSA.

The Open Society Archives affiliated with the Central European University is an international research center and Cold War archive, founded by George Soros in 1995. It is member of the Open Society Foundations Network (OSF). The Archives with its vast multilingual collections on Cold War, Human Rights and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe constitute one of the world’s largest repository on recent history.

The Specialist will assist the Director and the Chief Archivist in processing and publishing online OSA holdings and expanding its digital services:

• Enhancing the intellectual control over OSA holdings

• Demonstrated knowledge of processing textual and audiovisual materials including descriptive techniques, international archival standards and good practices, and metadata standards in general.

• Supervising temporary staff and/or interns in processing, cataloging, data curation activities and assigning/monitoring the tasks to ensure efficient and productive workflow

• Coordinating development projects: gathering requirements, needs, running user acceptance tests, producing system documentation and working closely with the ICT staff

· Working knowledge of software systems related to repository, management, access and preservation such as Drupal, Dspace, Fedora, Islandora, Hydra, Archivists’ Toolkit, Archives Space, Archivematica, and MetaArchive.

· Knowledge of XML, HTML, databases, XSLT. Experience with XML and related technologies, TEI, EAD scripting, Ruby on Rails; knowledge of linked open data issues and the semantic web

• Acting as quality controller and providing consultation, training to OSA staff and researchers

• Liasing with CEU and OSF staff and participating in information management projects upon request

• Documenting the state of the art, updating policies and procedures under the guidance of the Chief Archivist


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Conducting research on web technologies, user studies, digital preservation and semantic technologies

Qualifications:

•Master degree in archival and information science, or a related field and at least 3 years intensive experience of work in archives, information management.

•Knowledge of 20th century East-European history, or related field preferred.

•Several years’ experience supervising and managing projects

•Knowledge of archival arrangement and description practices and metadata standards

•Knowledge of digital asset management systems, archival management solutions, digital library or repository software

•Ability to work independently and as a team member, exercise good judgment and initiative, and manage sensitive material in a confidential manner.

•Excellent command of English

•Excellent written and verbal communication skills, analytical and organizational skills, attention to detail, problem-solving and interpersonal skills.

Compensation:

Commensurate with experience. However, we offer a competitive salary, as well as a dynamic and international academic environment. This is a full time position

Audiovisual Project Archivist. Open Society Archives, Budapest. Open until 22 January 2015

Audiovisual Project Archivist

Position for: Staff

Unit:

Open Society Archives

Full-time

Starting date: February 02, 2015
Application deadline: January 22, 2015
Full Or Part Time: Full-Time (40 working hours/week)
The Open Society Archives seeks a dynamic individual for a short-term Project Archivist position to process and describe the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Russian Broadcast Archive, consisting of thousands of hours of digitized broadcast recordings.
The Open Society Archives affiliated with the Central European University is an international research center and Cold War archive, founded by George Soros in 1995. It is member of the Open Society Foundations Network (OSF). The Archives with its vast multilingual collections on Cold War, Human Rights and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe constitute one of the world’s largest repository on recent history.
The Audio-visual Specialist will assist the Chief Archivist in managing, processing a major collection devoted to recorded sound (in digital) and the daily administration of the Russian collection which might include:
• Enhancing the intellectual control over legacy broadcast collections
• Demonstrated knowledge of processing audiovisual materials including descriptive techniques, international archival standards and good practices, and the provisions necessary for public service including reproduction requests, rights management.
• Creating the finding aid to the collection following in-house guidelines.
• Supervising temporary staff and/or interns in processing activities, assign tasks and ensure efficient and productive workflow.
• Assisting Chief Archivist in acquiring additional related collections.
• Providing reference service for the collection in consultation with the Reference Staff.
• Acting as liaison with RFE/RL administrators and Hoover Archive staff.
• Work closely with Digital Archivist and Senior Audio-Visual Archivist in implementing digital preservation policies for digital audiovisual collections.
Qualifications:
• Master degree in library and information science, audio-visual archives, or a related field and at least 3 years intensive experience of work in archives, libraries.
• Knowledge of 20th century East-European history, or related field preferred.
• Several years’ experience supervising and managing projects on broadcast/ audiovisual collections
• Knowledge of archival arrangement and description practices, digital preservation good practices and metadata standards
• Knowledge of digital asset management systems, preservation repositories, digital libraries
• Ability to work independently and as a team member, exercise good judgment and initiative, and manage sensitive material in a confidential manner.
• Native Russian and excellent command of English
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, analytical and organizational skills, attention to detail, problem-solving and interpersonal skills.
Compensation:
Commensurate with experience. However, we offer a competitive salary, as well as a dynamic and international academic environment. This is a full time position for a fixed term of 5 months.

How to apply:

Applicants need to submit:• a full resume,• a cover letter. Please send your complete application package to: applications@ceu.hu - including job code in subject line: 2015/001 CEU is an equal opportunity employer.

applications@ceu.hu