Digital Collections Specialist and Interpreter

3 weeks ago


Vancouver, Canada University of British Columbia Full time

Staff - Non Union

Job Category

M&P - AAPS

Job Profile

AAPS Salaried - Museum, Level A

Job Title

Digital Collections Specialist and Interpreter

Department

Administration | Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre

Compensation Range

$4,688.67 - $6,754.00 CAD Monthly

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Posting End Date

June 21, 2023

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above.

Job End Date

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam people). With a mandate to support access to residential school records for Survivors, their families and communities, IRSHDC prioritizes respectful, Indigenous-led and trauma-informed research, information practice and education. It facilitates critical dialogue about the Indian Residential School system, seeking to engage the UBC community and the broader public on the origins, effects and ongoing legacy of the schools. IRSHDC has an active oral testimony program in service to Indigenous nations and is developing digital systems and spaces of inquiry to model a new platform for information stewardship.

Job Summary

The Digital Collections Specialist and Interpreter also oversees the IRSHDC’s docenting program, in which visitors to the exhibit space are welcomed and, where appropriate, individuals and small groups are given a guided introduction to the space. The Digital Collections Specialist and Interpreter serves as a docent themselves, staffing the docenting desk on a half-time basis. They contribute to the ongoing design, development and implementation of the docenting program.

Organizational Status

The Digital Collections Specialist and Interpreter reports to the Senior Systems and Metadata Specialist and the Research and Community Liaison Librarian. They work in close collaboration with the IRSHDC’s engagement team as well as with the research and collections teams.

Work Performed

Research:

- Coordinates IRSHDC’s response to research
- and records-related enquiries working directly with Survivors and Intergenerational Survivors of residential schools, primarily, as well as other researchers and the general public.
- Coordinates the work of a small team of staff and students who undertake research in response to inquiries.
- Identifies and implements relevant methodologies in Indigenous studies and trauma-informed studies to inform IRSHDC’s response to records
- and research-related enquiries.
- Supports IRSHDC’s research ethics initiatives, including their formulation, renewal and amendment.
- In response to research inquiries, identifies relevant repositories, collections and literature related to residential schools and related colonial systems, institutions and policies.
- Undertakes original research in online and analogue repositories.
- Writes up research findings and reviews research reports from team members.
- Collates responses to research inquiries and develops and/or enhances research guides, thereby expediting responses to future inquiries.
- Facilitates information sharing amongst IRSHDC’s staff by ensuring that these guides are shared with other teams, including the research and collections teams.
- Implements other tools that enable information/research sharing within and across teams at IRSHDC.
- Works collaboratively with the collections teams to integrate findings from research inquiries into the ongoing design and development of the collections’ website.
- Participates in collections’ metadata work to ensure that research findings inform the development of metadata.
- Participates in the development of other research and collections’ initiatives.

Docenting:

- Oversees IRSHDC’s docenting program, including developing policies and procedures related to the program; undertakes long-term planning for the program and provides training for student docents.
- Collaborates closely with colleagues in engagement, ensuring best practices and protocols in engagement are reflected in the docenting program.
- Contri



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