Position Announcement: Geospatial Data Curator & Applications Administrator
The Sheridan Libraries and Museums seeks applications for the positon of Geospatial Data Curator & Applications Administrator. This position implements and oversees
geospatial data applications for academic and research use by JHU students, staff, and faculty and contributes to the curation of geospatial data. The position provides technical expertise and leadership in developing systems that support the teaching and
research work at the university, leading the technical and curation side of the provision of GIS services in the Data Services unit, administratively located in the Data Management Directorate. Serves the point of communication between service and technology.
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Classified Title: Sr. Systems Administrator
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PD
Starting Salary Range: $57,544 - $79,047
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: M-F, 8:30am - 5pm
Employee subgroup: Salaried Exmpt
Location: 01-MD:Homewood Campus
Department name: 10000069-GIS & Data Services
Personnel area: Libraries
General summary/purpose:
This position develops and oversees geospatial data applications for academic and research use by JHU students, staff, and faculty and contributes to the curation of geospatial data. The position provides technical expertise and leadership in developing systems that support the teaching and research work at the university, leading the technical and curation side of the provision of GIS services in the Data Services unit, administratively located in the Data Management Directorate. Serves the point of communication between service and technology.
Specific duties & responsibilities:
Curation and Applications Administration
Provision of Services
Minimum qualifications (mandatory):
Preferred qualifications:
Environment:
The Sheridan Libraries has had a long-standing commitment to building both knowledge and systems to support data curation across disciplinary domains. The Sheridan Libraries Digital Research and Curation Center has played a significant role in managing initiatives to explore deep curation needs with Sloan Digital Sky Survey data, reviewing repository infrastructure and platforms, and leading the Data Conservancy, a community focused on the development of solutions to digital research data collection, curation, and preservation challenges. In 2011 the JHU Data Management Services (JHUDMS) unit was launched from expertise and experience gained through the Data Conservancy in collaboration with the Entrepreneurial Library program. The JHUDMS provides research data management services and solutions for the Johns Hopkins community and has a strong track record of incremental and impactful success in growing data management support and services for the community. In 2017, JHUDMS and GIS came together to form the Data Services team.
The Sheridan Libraries and University Museums encompass the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, the historic George Peabody Library, the Albert D. Hutzler Reading Room, the DC Centers, the Evergreen Museum and John Work Garrett Library, and the Homewood Museum. Staff from the libraries and museums teach classes, curate exhibitions, produce scholarship and serve as principle investigators for research initiatives. A key partner in the academic enterprise, the library is a leader in the innovative application of information technology and has implemented notable diversity and organizational development programs. The Sheridan Libraries and University Museums are strongly committed to diversity. A strategic goal of the Libraries and Museums is to ‘work toward achieving diversity when recruiting new and promoting existing staff.’ For information on the Sheridan Libraries, visit www.library.jhu.edu.
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