Metadata Co-ordinator

The Metadata Coordinator role is responsible for supporting the Systems, Access & Discovery Manager in ensuring the discoverability of all information resources through high-quality and standardized metadata description. The job involves managing metadata for a wide range of information resources, overseeing the quality of metadata, contributing to the development and maintenance of metadata policies, and serving as a subject expert of metadata management. This role also requires line management of Library Assistants, including training, setting objectives, and assessing performance.

The ideal candidate should have a good general standard of education, experience with RDA, MARC, non-MARC standards, controlled vocabularies, ontologies and classification, knowledge of current and emerging standards, workflows, and best practices related to discovery, metadata and cataloguing, and experience of line management. Desirable skills include experience of data management and manipulation tools, knowledge of linked data, Bibframe, and/or RDF, and experience in leading cross-team collaboration.