Digital Assets Manager

at  University of Idaho

POSITION SUMMARY:

The position oversees digital media assets for branding and marketing. The position is responsible for leading the overall strategy, implementation, workflow and organization of digital asset management (DAM) systems, as well as overseeing user training and onboarding. They will partner with team leaders across campus to organize and secure assets for general use and special projects as needed.

Duties may include:

• Manage and facilitate workflows to incorporate digital assets into DAM systems
• Establish, test and document name taxonomies, metadata schema and tag standards across the enterprise within multiple asset categories
• Control and ensure metadata accuracies are consistent across the institution
• Develop and manage metadata tools, controlled vocabularies and standardization solutions
• Manage and maintain assets and provide quality control for naming conventions, file management, metadata and meeting copyright requirements
• Receive, organize, categorize and enter digital assets from creative teams, contributions from colleges, departments and contracted freelancers for medial library
• Plan, coordinate, manage and deliver multiple assets with competing priorities and deadlines
• Ensure assets and applications are compatible with the entire technology stack
• Maintain server and redundant back-up drive
• Ensure organization, file capacity and regularly scheduled maintenance
• Other duties as assigned

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors Degree in Advertising, Marketing, Design, Communications or Information Systems
• Three years managing digital assets including:
• Working within a multi-tiered server structure for Digital Asset Management (DAM)
• Research and analytics related to digital media asset usage
• Applying keyword tagging and metadata nomenclature consistently with attention to detail
• Managing multiple projects with competing deadlines including establishing and relaying timeline expectations and delivery requirements of content contributors in a deadline driven environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Five years experience in creative operations, production environment asset management
• Knowledge of copyright management and usage
• Experience organizing and managing projects independently and as a team
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities
• Experience in security and data management storage methods
• Experience maintaining information with detailed records-keeping systems and metadata
• Experience using computer software applications

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS & WORKING CONDITIONS:

• None
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• Manage and facilitate workflows to incorporate digital assets into DAM systems
• Establish, test and document name taxonomies, metadata schema and tag standards across the enterprise within multiple asset categories
• Control and ensure metadata accuracies are consistent across the institution
• Develop and manage metadata tools, controlled vocabularies and standardization solutions
• Manage and maintain assets and provide quality control for naming conventions, file management, metadata and meeting copyright requirements
• Receive, organize, categorize and enter digital assets from creative teams, contributions from colleges, departments and contracted freelancers for medial library
• Plan, coordinate, manage and deliver multiple assets with competing priorities and deadlines
• Ensure assets and applications are compatible with the entire technology stack
• Maintain server and redundant back-up drive
• Ensure organization, file capacity and regularly scheduled maintenance
• Other duties as assigne