PHAROS Project Manager. Open until 31 August 2019

Pharos Project Manager - Call for applications          

Full Time (35 hours/week)
Start Date: September / October 2019
Contract Length: 24-30 months
Application Deadline: August 31st, 2019
Location: Remote (based anywhere in Europe)

 

PHAROS, the International Consortium of Photo Archives, seeks a Project Manager for a 30-month pilot project (July 1, 2019 - December 31st 2021) to create a scholarly research platform that will bring together nearly 1.5 million images with accompanying documentation from five of the fourteen PHAROS member institutions using the ResearchSpace platform. It will serve as both a testing ground and model for the desired goal of PHAROS: to create a common platform for research on works of art in all media, through comprehensive consolidated access to photo archives.

 

In the first year of the project, external consultants will normalize and clean the data sets from participating institutions, map records to the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model for ingesting into the ResearchSpace platform. In the second year of the project, the user interface of the platform will be refined and adjusted, together with a scalable search architecture, according to input from a user research committee.

 

The project manager will be the primary contact person for all consultants and will work closely with members of the pilot project institutions:

 

• Frick Art Reference Library; New York, USA
• I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies; Florence, Italy
• Fondazione Federico Zeri; Bologna, Italy
• Bibliotheca Hertziana; Rome, Italy
• Bildarchiv Foto Marburg; Marburg, Germany

 

Primary Responsibilities:

 

• Serve as the primary liaison between the Principal Investigator, the User Advisory Group Chair, Technical Architect, institutional stakeholders, and external contractors.
• Coordinate schedules and work for contractors, ensuring on-time delivery
• Identify and mitigate project risks
• Organize communication, including scheduling meetings
• Project reporting and close-out
• Assist in drafting specifications
• Review all work and verify that is meets specifications
• Create and maintain documentation throughout the project
• Disseminate results to the community
• Maintain project management software
• Other duties as assigned

 

Basic Qualifications

 

• A Master's Degree or above in Art History, Computer Science, Library Science, Data Science or other fields relevant to Digital Humanities research.
• A background in Cultural Heritage Informatics
• Familiarity with one or more of the following: semantic web technologies; ontologies and metadata standards; web development
• The Project Manager must be physically based in Europe
• Fluency in English

Additional Qualifications

• Experience in semantic web technologies and standards (RDF, SPARQL, OWL)
• Working knowledge of the CIDOC-CRM or related ontologies
• Experience in web application development (Javascript, HTML5 etc.)
• Previous work experience in academic institutions, with a strong preference to candidates who have worked with archival collections
• Linux Server management, Docker, IIIF Server management
• Previous experience in project management and project management software (Jira & Confluence)
• Version Control

 

Stipend range: $5000-$6250/month (gross), depending on qualifications and experience, plus travel allowance for consultations and meetings.

This position is funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to The Frick Collection, who will administer the funds. This incumbent will be hired as an independent contractor and will be expected to provide monthly invoices for services. The position is full-time (35 hours/week), with 25 days a year of vacation time, 13 holidays, and 12 days of sick leave.

Employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, alienage or citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, military status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other protected characteristic as established by law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
 
Please apply using the link below by submitting a CV and cover letter  (Google login required)


For inquiries please email pm(at)pharosartresearch.org 

Taxonomy Management Officer. IMF, Washington DC. Open until 5 August 2019

Taxonomy Management Officer - KMU (

Job Number:

 1900520)

Description

 

This is a contractual appointment for 2 (two) years, with a possibility for extension for a total of 4 (four) years of contractual service. 

Under the supervision of the Knowledge Management Unit Head and Deputy Unit Chief, this position will play a key role in the knowledge and information management initiatives of the IMF by continuing the development, coordination and implementation of the enterprise business vocabularies and the IMF's  metadata standard.   She/he will manage the daily operations of the IMF’s taxonomies, provide training and outreach on the application of the taxonomies to information and implement a taxonomy governance model. 

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Taxonomy development, maintenance and implementation

• develops the IMF's enterprise business vocabularies (EBV) based on understanding users, analyzing content and processes and getting agreement amongst diverse groups and stakeholders continuously;
• evaluates the terminology in use at the IMF through analytics and other surveillance to identify opportunities for enriching the vocabularies;
• collects and analyses user needs and feedback, as well as analytics reports to refine the taxonomies
• works with an existing EBV core group that comprises of IT, library and Knowledge Management team members;
• guides technical specialists on how to model the taxonomies in a taxonomy management tool

Taxonomy governance and application

• manages the taxonomy governance structure, process and documentation;
• contributes to the development of guidelines and policies on taxonomy management and implementation;
• engages subject matter experts (SMEs) to make sure the EBV is up-to-date and reflects the IMF content.
• establishes and implements the standardization of metadata values for the various sources of material that are entered into different applications; promotes the adoption of common metadata values across the organization;
• monitors developments and trends in information retrieval including taxonomies, thesauri, concept extraction, enterprise search and meta-information management;

Other Duties and Responsibilities

• provides input and recommendations in collaboration with IT services, web design professionals, digital workplace/intranet team and staff to improve information management, search interfaces and the online presence and search capacity of the IMF's information;
• advises on enterprise content types to ensure that all content groups can be mapped to the taxonomy;
• contributes to the standardization of metadata for various types and sources of information within the IMF
• supports and advocates for good practices in online metadata management
• contributes to the development of a measurement framework for information retrieval practices.

Qualifications

 

Education and Experience:

• Master’s degree or advanced degree in information science, library science, knowledge management or equivalent required. First level university degree in Economics or related field and/or in-depth experience and understanding of economic terms preferred.
• 4+ years of progressively responsible job-related experience in taxonomy and/or ontology development.
• Professional experience with leading large-scale taxonomy efforts and implementation.
• Related experience in information management, including the management of metadata, thesauri, auto-classification and enterprise search.
• Excellent research and analytical skills in assessing the impact of taxonomy, metadata and other relevant areas.
• Familiarity with knowledge management tools, techniques and practices.
• Experience with enterprise search tools, auto-classification tools, taxonomy management tools and text analytics.
• Project management certification/experience is a plus.            

Competencies: 

• Demonstrated excellent verbal and written skills
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others at all levels of an organization
• Ability to clearly articulate messages and effectively communicate to a wide variety of audiences
• Strong negotiation and persuasion skills, with experience proactively influencing diverse stakeholder groups
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong project management skills including the ability to interpret business information management needs and translate them into system and operational requirements.
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances
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The IMF is committed to achieving a diverse staff, including gender, nationality, culture and educational background.