RTÉ Hiring for Film and Digital Media Archivist, RTÉ Content Job at Dublin Full Time

RTÉ is Ireland’s national public service media organisation. A leader in Irish media, RTÉ provides comprehensive, cost effective, free-to-air multi-media services to the public in Ireland and interested audiences internationally.

RTÉ Archives house Ireland’s largest audio-visual collection and are responsible for collecting, preserving and making accessible the creative and documentary output of the national broadcaster. The collections combine hundreds of thousands of hours of moving image and sound recordings, together with photographs, manuscripts and administrative documents. The RTÉ Archives are an important support to RTÉ’s multi-media services and a rich resource for the wider creative media industry both in Ireland and abroad. RTÉ Archives also work with cultural partners and heritage institutions as well as supporting academic research and the educational sector. Access to RTÉ Archives, commercial or otherwise, fulfils a regulatory function.

In order to address the risks of age, fragility and technological obsolescence of its legacy holdings, RTÉ has put in place a programme of work to further protect these collections and ensure they are accessible for the future. The combined projects will bring the reformatted holdings into a digital preservation process aligned with a new digital archiving infrastructure for all current and future RTÉ media content services as part of RTÉ’s strategic plan.

We are now looking to appoint a Film and Digital Media Archivist, reporting to the Programme Manager, RTÉ Archives.

The main responsibilities for this role, and the key activities will include, but are not limited to:

• Development, testing and deployment of new digital workflows
• Technical and administrative duties required to ensure RTÉ Archive film is:
  • conserved to the highest standard
  • restored and repaired for transfer and digitisation projects
  • transferred to digital files for digital preservation and digital use

• Assessment and testing of RTÉ Archives film material for degradation / condition
• Re-mastering of degraded magnetic soundtracks where required
• General related administrative and operational duties and project work as may be directed
• Assisting the RTÉ Technology projects, by actively working hands on throughout all project phases and driving digital file management operations for the film digitisation and digital preservation
• Working closely with relevant teams within RTÉ and external vendors as required on the design and deployment of the aforementioned workflows
• Maintaining good working relationships with relevant third parties such as equipment and software manufacturers and service providers as required

Requirements for this post include:

• Relevant higher education is required, or a proven substantial relevant experience
• Experience in devising and implementing archival media management workflows and processes, with demonstrable problem-solving skills in this area
• Experience with clear understanding as well as explaining complex digital workflows to audiences at different technical levels
• Previous experience in working with, or of a high level of interest and appreciation for formats and types of film is required
• Experience with training individuals and teams is desirable
• Experience with working with image sequences, audio and video files is required
• Experience with film conservation, physical film restoration and preparation for film digitisation is desirable
• Film scanning experience is desirable
• Experience with providing broadcasting media archive services, with all aspects of video digitisation / content migration and preservation is desirable
• Ideally, candidates should be familiar with various systems used in audiovisual archives and productions in Radio and TV broadcasting organisations. These are systems such as audio-visual archive databases, media asset management systems, video production systems, and digital media file delivery methods
• Knowledge and interest in Irish history, public affairs, television and popular culture and the Irish Language is desirable and beneficial to working on collections, but not essential

Candidates must have the ability to communicate confidently and competently with the team and to manage expectations for the stakeholders. They should be comfortable in dealing with ambiguity and able to think in a methodological way.

A specified-purpose contract for the purpose of completing this project will be offered at the Archive Film Ed/Telecine Op Grade on a three-year period. The salary scale applicable to this role is from €37,205 to €50,459 per annum.

If you are interested in applying for this exciting opportunity, please apply in strictest confidence by submitting your Curriculum Vitae and cover letter outlining your suitability for the role. Please submit as one document when completing this online application process.

Closing date for receipt of applications is 5pm on Monday 5th September 2022.

RTÉ is committed to diversity in its workforce and welcomes applications from people with diverse backgrounds.

Cuirfear fáilte roimh iarratais ó dhaoine go bhfuil dearcadh dearfach acu i leith na Gaeilge. Applications are welcome from people who have a positive outlook to Irish.

RTÉ is committed to diversity in its workplace. RTÉ is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants without regard to gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, social experience, race and ethnicity, disability, civil and family status, religious belief and membership of the Traveller Community.