Digitisation Co-ordinator

Job Description:

Te Ratonga Puna Mātauranga | Library Services
Located in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand

• 5 weeks annual leave +5 days university holidays
• Professional development opportunities
• Generous superannuation provisions (up to 6.75% employer contribution)
• Salary - $75923-$82000
• Permanent position (37.5 hours per week) 1.0 FTE

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Āu Mahi | What You Will Do
The University of Canterbury Library is home to nationally significant cultural heritage collections that support teaching, learning, and research. We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Digitisation Co-ordinator to join our team in the Macmillan Brown Library.

You will support the delivery of digitisation and digital access initiatives, working collaboratively with subject matter experts, collection specialists, and other stakeholders. The role focuses on photographic digitisation of collections, including coordinating workflows, maintaining accurate records and metadata, supporting project delivery, and contributing to best-practice digital preservation and access activities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Photographic digitisation
• coordinating digitisation service delivery workflows and projects
• maintaining digital records and metadata
• supporting digital preservation and access activities
• liaising with internal and external stakeholders
• contributing to process improvement and documentation

Mōu | Who You Are
You will be a technically capable and highly organised professional with a passion for cultural heritage, preservation, and digital access. You will enjoy working both independently and collaboratively and take pride in producing accurate, high-quality work.

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Three to five years' administrative experience working in a tertiary education, professional services, or GLAM organisation, with a strong customer service focus
• Demonstrated experience digitising cultural heritage materials, including archives, artworks, photographs, negatives, manuscripts, and rare books.
• Strong technical skills in photographic imaging, lighting systems, digital capture equipment, and image editing software.
• Experience working with metadata standards, digital asset management, and digital production workflows.
• Knowledge of digital preservation principles, file management, and digital archiving practices.
• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Strong customer service and stakeholder relationship skills.
• Understanding of and sensitivity to cultural issues relating to Māori and Pacific collections.
• An alignment with our organisation's values and culture, promoting a positive and inclusive work environment.

Mahi Ngātahi | Who You Will Work With
You will be part of UC Library’s Macmillan Brown Library team, working alongside collection specialists, librarians, researchers, and external partners to support the preservation and accessibility of UC’s unique heritage collections.

Reporting to the Manager, Cultural Heritage and Macmillan Brown Library, you will contribute to digitisation initiatives that support teaching, research, public engagement, and long-term preservation outcomes.

Ngā Painga o UC | Why UC
At UC, being part of our team means more than just a job. We are committed to supporting our kaimahi | staff’s career and wellbeing with benefits designed to help our kaimahi grow and feel connected, supported and valued.

UC’s Benefits approach is shaped by Ngā Uara | Our Values Whanaungatanga, Tiakitanga, and Manaakitanga. They are designed to be relevant, support and inspire our people, they include:

• 5 weeks annual leave +5 days university holidays
• UC Parental Leave (up to 9 weeks paid) + 26 weeks Government paid parental leave and onsite childcare facility
• generous employer contribution to superannuation (up to 6.75%)
• flexible working arrangements
• professional development and study opportunities
• supportive working environment
• a wide range of retail discounts across shopping, entertainment and travel
• on-campus staff discounts including UC RecCentre
• living in revitalised Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
• a unique working environment in a beautiful campus with access to UC facilities such as UC RecCentre and Staff Club at discounted rates plus onsite cafés and eateries, and more.

For more information, please visit us: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/about-uc/work-at-uc/benefits-working-uc

For more information about Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury, please visit https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/

The closing date for this position is: Tuesday 23 June 2026 (midnight, NZ time)
Please note applications will be reviewed after the close date.

Pēhea te tono mai | How You Apply
Applications for this position must be submitted via our careers website and should include a cover letter and resume.

Please note, we do not accept applications by email, however we are happy to answer your queries in relation to the application process, please forward these to [email protected]

You must have Aotearoa New Zealand or Australian citizenship/permanent residency to be considered for this role.

Please note, this is an onsite position.