Digitisation Co-ordinator

Job Description

Te Puna Mātauraka o Waitaha | UC Library
Located in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand

• 5 weeks annual leave +5 days university holidays
• Professional development opportunities
• Generous superannuation provisions (up to 6.75% employer contribution)
• Salary - Band 4
• Permanent position (37.5 hours per week) 1.0 FTE

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Āu Mahi | What You Will Do

The University of Canterbury Library is home to nationally significant cultural heritage collections that support teaching, learning, and research. We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Digitisation Co-ordinator to join our team in the Macmillan Brown Library.

You will support the delivery of digitisation and digital access initiatives, working collaboratively with subject matter experts, collection specialists, and other stakeholders. The role focuses on photographic digitisation of collections, including coordinating workflows, maintaining accurate records and metadata, supporting project delivery, and contributing to best-practice digital preservation and access activities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Photographic digitisation
• coordinating digitisation service delivery workflows and projects
• maintaining digital records and metadata
• supporting digital preservation and access activities
• liaising with internal and external stakeholders
• contributing to process improvement and documentation

Mōu | Who You Are

You will be a technically capable and highly organised professional with a passion for cultural heritage, preservation, and digital access. You will enjoy working both independently and collaboratively and take pride in producing accurate, high-quality work.

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Three to five years' administrative experience working in a tertiary education, professional services, or GLAM organisation, with a strong customer service focus
• Demonstrated experience digitising cultural heritage materials, including archives, artworks, photographs, negatives, manuscripts, and rare books.
• Strong technical skills in photographic imaging, lighting systems, digital capture equipment, and image editing software.
• Experience working with metadata standards, digital asset management, and digital production workflows.
• Knowledge of digital preservation principles, file management, and digital archiving practices.
• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Strong customer service and stakeholder relationship skills.
• Understanding of and sensitivity to cultural issues relating to Māori and Pacific collections.
• An alignment with our organisation's values and culture, promoting a positive and inclusive work environment.