Job title: Digitization Project Assistant
Location: Thunder Bay Museum, 425 Donald St. E., Thunder Bay, ON P7E 5V1
Tel: (807) 623-0801
Fax: (807) 622-6880
Email: director@thunderbaymuseum.com
Web: www.thunderbaymuseum.com
Duration: 16 weeks, 35 hours per week
Rate of Pay: $18.70/hours
Tentative Start Date: October/November 2025

JOB DESCRIPTION:

To assist the Curator/Archivist with a project to increase web-based access to a large volume of digitized media in various formats.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with historical research and cataloguing in a museum or archive environment.
• Demonstrated experience and skills in archival digitization, metadata and file management and familiarity with various computer software, including archival or museum databases.
• Post-secondary education, background in history or archival studies would be an

asset.

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact with the public.
• Ability to work independently, as well as part of a team.

• Research and re-catalogue previously digitized photographs.
• Continuously upload photographs to a web-based platform.
• Research and catalogue previously transferred film footage.
• Upload film footage to web-based platform for external access.
• Upload previously digitized newspapers to a web-based platform.
• Utilize social media and/or draft historical small articles to update on the progress of
  the project and highlight notable collections.