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Digital and Technical Services Archivist [Term-Limited]

ACLU · New York City, New York, US

The ACLU seeks applicants for a full-time 3-year term-limited position of Digital and Technical Services Archivist in the Records & Archives unit of the ACLU...

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ABOUT THE JOB: The ACLU seeks applicants for a full-time 3-year term-limited position of Digital and Technical Services Archivist in the Records & Archives unit of the ACLU’s National office in New York, NY . This is a hybrid role that has in-office requirements of three (3) days per week or twelve (12) days per month. Records & Archives reduces risk, creates operational efficiency, and safeguards the historical legacy of ACLU by stewarding data/records through the information lifecycle with a particular focus on records that are no longer in use. This position is part of a collective bargaining unit. It is represented by ACLU Staff United (ASU). - We manage the destruction of paper and digital records that are not historically valuable and are no longer in use at ACLU. - We set and enforce policies related to how long records are kept, their secure destruction and documentation thereof, according to business needs and state and federal laws and regulations. - We set and enforce policies and carry out the day-to-day work of documenting, preserving, and providing access to the ACLU’s historical archives on-site, and we prepare and donate historical material that is open to the publi...