Organization: The ArQuives

Location: Toronto, ON

Compensation: $60,000/year + health benefits 

Organization Homepage (URL):  www.arquives.ca 

About the Organization:

Located in Toronto, Ontario, The ArQuives is one of the largest 2SLGBTQIA+ archives in the world. Primarily a volunteer-run organization focusing on Canadian content, The ArQuives acquires, preserves, and provides public access to information and collections in various formats. Our organization offers a range of research, exhibition, educational, and community programming. The ArQuives seeks a Digital Archivist (24-month contract) to commence in January 2026.

Description and Duties:

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Digital Archivist is responsible for leading the organization’s CLIR digitization project, including creating digital surrogates from select fonds, and arranging and describing digitization and born-digital collections. Responsibilities of the position include working with vendors, digitizing materials in-house, using digital preservation software, creating documentation and work plans, and supervising part-time Digitization Assistants. On-site work is required (at least 90%). 

Principal duties and responsibilities include:

• Prepare material for off-site digitization
• Digitize a variety of materials
• Upload and update records in Preservica
• Work with vendors and supervise digitization projects
• Community Consultation
• Arrangement and description of digital records
• Managing local storage and developing a storage strategy
• Supervision of volunteers and staff

Qualifications:

• Master of Information or equivalent; 
• 2 years of experience working with digital collections; 
• Experience implementing digitization strategies;
• Knowledge and understanding of Preservica, Inmagic, Google Suite, Basecamp, and AtoM are an asset;
• Knowledge and understanding of the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities and history in Canada, or experience working with marginalized communities, is an asset;
• The ability to take the initiative and prioritize with strong attention to detail.

Additional Information:

The ArQuives acknowledges and is committed to addressing historical inequities within our organization. We encourage applications from marginalized communities, including those who identify as Indigenous, women, trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming, Black, people of colour, and persons with disabilities. 

The ArQuives is committed to an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming hiring process that provides reasonable accommodations to all applicants. Please let us know if you require any accommodations to participate in this posting, recruitment, selection, and/or assessment process.

Application deadline: December 2, 2025

Start date: January 12, 2026

How to Apply:

How to apply: Interested candidates should send a CV and cover letter as a single PDF to jobposting@arquives.ca with “CLIR Digital Archivist” in the email subject line. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.