Digital Preservation Business Lead
Bank of Canada

Location: Ottawa
Compensation: Salaries are based on qualifications and experience and typically range from $86,780 to $108,465 (job grade 17)

Take a central role

The Bank of Canada has a vision to be "a leading central bank-dynamic, engaged and trusted-committed to a better Canada." No other employer in the country offers you the unique opportunity to work at the very center of Canada's economy, in a diverse and inclusive organization with significant impact on the economic and financial well-being of all Canadians. You will be challenged, energized and motivated to excel in an environment where we are reinventing central banking, renewing ways of doing business and reinforcing a culture of innovation.

Description and Duties    

What's new

The Bank of Canada has been mandated to become a digital first central bank.  The Knowledge and Information Services (K&IS) team, a business line within the Corporate Services and Data department, wants to conduct a long-term assessment, management and preservation of the Bank's born-digital and digitized information and data assets for internal and public/open access needs. This important work will provide the foundations for the infrastructure, policies and processes needed to progress the Bank posture related to digital preservation.
 
Join our Knowledge and Information Services (K&IS) team

The Digital Preservation Business Lead will be reporting to the Director, Knowledge, and information Services.

K&IS is a business line within the Corporate Services and Data department, an internal service department in the Bank's Corporate Administration function. K&IS provides information and data resources, services, tools, systems, and policies which help Bank staff access, utilize, manage, and share quality information to effectively accomplish the Bank's business goals. K&IS specializes in digital library and content licensing services; digital scholarship services; research and reference services; corporate record services; support to end users for the Bank's content management and collaboration systems; and management of the Bank of Canada Archives.


What you will do      

As the Digital Preservation Lead, you will be responsible for the assessment of the digital preservation considerations of the Bank's digital information collections: Bank's publications/research outputs, corporate records, and the archives, factoring in the functionalities of the Bank's current technological and business environment. You will continue the environmental scan we started by networking with peer organizations from around the world to identify opportunities to learn and share. You will lead an internal requirement gathering exercise with the Bank's owners of corporate repositories. You will conduct an options analysis of possible tools, including assessment of possible partnerships with applicable Canadian national institutions.

By the end of your term, you will:

• have developed the Bank's digital preservation roadmap, and related plans,
• completed identified and costed courses of action, and garnered support from key partners across the Bank.

Qualifications: Your education and experience

• Master's degree, from a school accredited by the American Library Association, in library sciences, archives, information management, information sciences, or related field; and
• a minimum of 5 years of recent relevant work experience in a library or information services unit  
  

What you need to succeed

You demonstrate a high degree of initiative and entrepreneurship and are comfortable leading facilitated discussions that provide an opportunity for open-ended and ambiguous brainstorming.  Your strong communication skills enable you to inspire and establish strong relations with various partners and collaborators. You are resourceful, well-organized, and have exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to make sound decisions and judgments.  Your experience capturing and analyzing clients' information requirements and conducting effective information and technical needs assessments related to digital preservation is essential.

You have knowledge or familiarity of:

• institutional repositories, data repositories, digital preservation systems and platforms.
• national and international collaborative, digital preservation efforts.
• Globally recognized digital preservation standards for various digital formats (audio, video, image, text). You possess operational experience using metadata schemas relevant to digital preservation such as PREMIS, METS, MARC, EAD.
  

Nice to have

• Post-Masters certificate in digital preservation, digital archives, digital curation, or digital asset management
• Experience as a leader or team member on an enterprise-wide project.
• Relevant experience in digital preservation initiatives.
• Demonstrated success working remotely or in a hybrid environment

What you need to know

Language requirement: English and French essential (bilingual) with a minimum starting level of functional (level 4) in second official language. Training may be provided to help reach the required level of fully functional (level 5) in second official language.

Priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents

Security level required: Reliability

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and further to public health guidelines, preventative measures are being taken to ensure health and safety during the recruitment process. All interviews are conducted virtually.

Hybrid Work Model & Remote work

The Bank is moving towards a hybrid working model which allows employees to telework up to 50 percent of the time, balanced over a two-week period. Since this position is temporary it can be staffed remotely from anywhere in Canada for those candidates not within commuting distance to the Bank office.

In the event that the position becomes regular/indeterminate, you will be required to adhere to the hybrid model. Relocation assistance may be offered by the Bank for terms greater than 2 years.

Vaccination Policy

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic that was declared by the World Health Organization, the mandates issued by the federal government, and the direction provided by public health authorities, the Bank of Canada requires all new employees to be fully vaccinated prior to their start date.

Selected candidates will be asked to provide proof of vaccination status at the reference stage. Candidates who are unable to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and require an accommodation for a legitimate medical, religious or other human rights-based grounds will follow a separate process.

Covid-19 Authorized Vaccines in Canada

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

What you can expect from us

This is a great opportunity to join a leading organization and be part of a high-performing team. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to meet your needs at every stage of your life and career.

For more information on key benefits please visit A great deal to consider.

• Salaries are based on qualifications and experience and typically range from $86,780 to $108,465 (job grade 17)
• Depending on performance, you may be eligible for performance pay for successfully meeting (7 to 10% of your base salary) or for exceeding expectations (15% of your base salary). Exceptional performers who far exceed expectations may be eligible for higher performance pay.
• Flexible and comprehensive benefits so you can choose the level of health and dental coverage that meets your needs.
• Extra vacation days (up to five each year) that you can purchase to add to your vacation entitlement
• Option to join the indexed, defined-benefit pension plan after 24 consecutive months of service

 
Application Webpage (URL)    https://bit.ly/3rWuPd0
Application Deadline: March 6, 2022