Highlights
We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Digital Librarian to support the management, governance, and discoverability of digital and media assets across our Media Asset Management (MAM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) platforms. This role is particularly well suited for a graduate student in Library Science, a retired librarian, or a digital content professional looking for a flexible schedule while leveraging expertise in information management and digital asset governance.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Johnston, IA |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1990 |
| Website | http://www.sunrisesys.com/ |
Description
Job Title: Digital Librarian
Job ID: 26-04399
Location: Johnston, IA, 50131
Duration: 06 Months on W2 Contract
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Digital Librarian to support the management, governance, and discoverability of digital and media assets across our Media Asset Management (MAM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) platforms.
This role will play a critical part in ensuring content is properly organized, accurately tagged, easily discoverable, and governed throughout its lifecycle. The ideal candidate combines traditional information management skills with modern digital content expertise and enjoys helping users find the right asset at the right time. Responsibilities align closely with digital librarian functions focused on metadata management, search optimization, training, and asset governance.
Key Responsibilities
Job ID: 26-04399
Location: Johnston, IA, 50131
Duration: 06 Months on W2 Contract
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Digital Librarian to support the management, governance, and discoverability of digital and media assets across our Media Asset Management (MAM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) platforms.
This role will play a critical part in ensuring content is properly organized, accurately tagged, easily discoverable, and governed throughout its lifecycle. The ideal candidate combines traditional information management skills with modern digital content expertise and enjoys helping users find the right asset at the right time. Responsibilities align closely with digital librarian functions focused on metadata management, search optimization, training, and asset governance.
Key Responsibilities
- Metadata & Taxonomy Management
- Apply metadata standards, controlled vocabularies, and taxonomy structures.
- Ensure digital assets are consistently tagged and categorized.
- Maintain and improve metadata quality and governance standards.
- Assist in developing enterprise-wide metadata frameworks.
- Digital & Media Asset Management
- Ingest, organize, and maintain image, video, audio, and document assets.
- Conduct regular quality reviews and metadata audits.
- Support archival and retention processes.
- Identify duplicate, outdated, or non-compliant content.
Search & Discoverability
- Improve search relevance and asset findability.
- Analyze user search behavior and recommend improvements.
- Optimize folders, collections, and categorization structures.
- Support enterprise content governance initiatives.
- User Support & Enablement
- Assist users with locating and utilizing assets.
- Provide training and guidance on DAM and MAM best practices.
- Create user documentation, FAQs, and reference materials.
- Serve as a subject matter resource for asset management processes.
- Governance & Compliance
- Ensure assets comply with governance policies and standards.
- Verify rights management and usage restrictions.
- Support content audits and reporting activities.
- Assist with migration, cleanup, and data quality initiatives.
Success Measures
- Within the first year, the Digital Librarian will:
- Improve metadata completeness and accuracy.
- Increase asset findability and search success rates.
- Support successful migration and onboarding initiatives for DAM and MAM content.
- Establish repeatable governance and quality assurance processes.
- Deliver a positive user experience through training and support.
Ideal Candidate
- You thrive on bringing order to complex content ecosystems, have a passion for information organization, and enjoy helping others navigate digital content. You see metadata as the key to discoverability and understand the value that effective content governance brings to an enterprise organization.
- This role is particularly well suited for a graduate student in Library Science, a retired librarian, or a digital content professional looking for a flexible schedule while leveraging expertise in information management and digital asset governance
- Proficient in Microsoft products; AI technologies; advanced applications for managing content
Contact:
Madhu Sudhan J: madhu.s@sunrisesys.com | 319-242-4032 | URL: www.sunrisesys.com
About Company
Sunrise Systems was founded in 1990 with a clear vision to deliver world-class staffing service solutions in all labor categories, including IT consulting and solutions; all with the commitment to provide service that exceeds expectations and become the most trusted name in the industry. More than two and a half decades later, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of the staffing industry. Combining our deep industry expertise, insights, and global resources, we have partnered with our clients to connect them with top professionals across several different industries.
We provide cost-effective Managed Staffing Solutions, Information Technology and Information Technology Consulting Services to several Fortune 500 companies and U.S. Government agencies. We provide our clients with flexible engagement models and customized products that are budget and time specific. Understanding the challenges that every business faces, we offer our services either on-site at the clients' site or from one of our globally distributed technology centers. Our onshore and offshore development capabilities ensure that we excel at meeting customer requirements every single time.
Our collective business experience spans over two and a half decades and ranges from:
- Business, management, and technical fields
- Information technology consulting and software solutions.
- Providing strategic support for the development and long-term growth of new business ventures across several industries including but not limited to; accounting, banking, finance, and recruitment.
- Motivating technology staff and establishing partnerships with Fortune 500 companies
Sunrise Systems has a vast range of competence in:
- Design, development, and support of cloud-based solutions from simple to highly complexed
- Database administration of multi-platform applications, complex databases, and web-based environments that include all aspects of installation, planning, maintenance, and monitoring.
- Data processing and data migration
- Application re-engineering and platform migration
- Working with the Information Systems and end-user communities at all levels to resolve issues and establish consensus.