CONSULTANCY: Digital Library Consultant

POST

N/A DUTY STATION

Geneva, Switzerland COMMENCEMENT OF DUTY

To be determined NATURE OF APPOINTMENT

Variable (depending on needs of Department/Division)
10 months

Linguistic Services and Publishing Governance Services Department WMO is committed to achieving diversity and a balanced workforce. Applications are welcome from qualified women and men, including those with disabilities. The statutory retirement age after 1 January 2014 is 65. Pursuant to WMO Standing Instructions, the minimum age to be eligible for consideration for vacant positions is 18, and the maximum age must enable the candidate to serve for at least the term of the contract before reaching mandatory age of separation.

• Locate and package physical publications in batches for shipping to an external vendor for digitization.
• Track physical publications through the digitization life cycle via the creation of a detailed inventory.
• Update metadata for existing records of physical publications in WMO e-Library or create new records for publications that are missing in WMO e-Library, as necessary.
• Quality control pdf scans, including OCR (Optical Character Recognition) accuracy.
• Conduct research on online digital collections to identify WMO publications that already exist electronically but are missing in WMO e-Library and add them accordingly.
• Conduct a control check of WMO e-Library records to identify missing pdfs, low quality scans, broken links, publications that require OCR (Optical Character Recognition), and any other inconsistencies.
• Assist the WMO Library Team with other tasks as required, including on-site scanning and bilingual publication alignments.

University degree or certification in Library Science, archival Studies, Information Science, or related field.

At least 3 years of professional experience of working with digital and physical archives, libraries and/or records repositories, of which at least 1 year was with an international organization.

• Knowledge of library and archival databases and/or management systems;
• Knowledge of physical library and archival collections;
• Knowledge of metadata standards, creation, and description of digital resources;
• Ability to lift around 6 kg.

Fluency in English (both oral and written) is required. Knowledge of other official languages of WMO would be an advantage. (

Note:

The official languages of the Organization are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.)

Proposed fee: 5,012 USD per month

Focal point email for additional information: lsu

Applications should be made online through the WMO e-recruitment system at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Do not send your application via multiple routes. Only applicants in whom WMO has a further interest will be contacted. Shortlisted candidates may be required to sit a written test and/or an interview.