Funded by IMAA's Digital Skills for Youth program, the Archive Coordinator is a part-time contract position between October 2024 and March 2025. The Coordinator will be engaged in the planning, organizing, and implementation of InterAccess's archive. This will include building an archival framework and workflow and collaborating with technicians to create an open source server to host the archive.

Pay Rate: $26.50 per hour at 21 hours per week
Start Date: Monday, October 7, 2024
End Date: Friday, March 28, 2025

Application Deadline: Thursday, September 12, 2024 at 11:59 PM

JOB DESCRIPTION

Reporting to InterAccess’s Programming Manager and Executive Director, the Archive Coordinator's work will include:

• Collaborating with InterAccess staff and consultants on building an archival framework;
• Cataloging, organizing, and digitizing InterAccess’s comprehensive archive containing artwork, organizational documents, photographs, and program ephemera; 
• Working with mentor technicians to develop locally networked server for the archive database.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist in building a local server with support from professional technicians
• Develop a cataloguing system with support from professional librarian/archivist
• Develop archival best practices for:
  • Materials handling, organizing, and storage
  • Digitization of various types of materials (paper, video, floppy disks etc.)
• Create and test a workflow for digitizing and cataloguing archival materials
• Catalogue selection of materials from InterAccess archive

REQUIREMENTS

This position is funded by IMAA’s Digital Skills for Youth program. To meet this program’s requirements, applicants must:

• Be between 15 and 30 years old at the start of the internship
• Be legally entitled to work in Canada (citizen, permanent resident, refugee status)
• Self-identify as under-employed (ie: employed below their level of education, holds part-time employment or in emerging field with new job)
• Have completed post-secondary studies

The successful candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Strong interest or experience in archival work, data entry, cataloguing
• Experience or strong interest in physical computing and/or open-source practices
• Excellent attention to detail and data entry
• Ability to work independently and motivated to take initiative
• Ability to work collaboratively on systems building and problem-solving

ASSETS

• Degree or work experience in the Archiving and/or Library Services fields
• Strong interest in Canadian media art and/or artist-run centre history

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Flexible work schedule with a combination of remote and on-site hours
• This position requires 21 hours per week between Monday and Friday or Tuesday and Saturday

HOW TO APPLY

Please email your CV and a brief cover letter (combined in a single PDF) describing your interest in the role to:

Ginger Scott
Executive Director
careers@interaccess.org

Please use the email subject line: Archive Coordinator Application – YOUR NAME

InterAccess is committed to equity and strongly encourages applications from individuals who are recent immigrants or refugees, Indigenous, members of a visible minority/racialized, LGBTQ2+ youth, women or non-binary, and youth for whom this would be their first job experience.