Specialist, Digital Asset Management

**** How You’ll Contribute
**** The Storytelling team works to expand the organization’s impact through journalism, photography, film/video, web content, mapping, and data visualization. As one of the largest funders to individual storytellers in this work, it also identifies key grantmaking, and programmatic opportunities with creative talent. Much of the team's activity is focused on identifying and building capacity for the next generation of diverse storytellers.
Reporting to the Manager, Digital Asset Management, the Specialist, Digital Asset Management is primarily responsible for the ingest, curation, and elevation of a high-volume pipeline of photos and videos created by research, conservation, storytelling, and education grantees, as well as other Society funded Programs. Responsible for coordinating the submission of grantee media assets while providing quality assurance of required legal documentation and metadata.

This includes leading the creation of accurate and precise key wording standards using departmentally specific and dynamic taxonomies, promoting noteworthy media for wider use across the Society and its Partners, and researching rights and clearance information. Provides final quality assurance of photos and videos before submitting assets into the Society's archive and maintaining media asset information in the grants database.
** Your Impact
****** Responsibilities*
* ** Include
* **** Catalog all grantee and other Society funded Program photos and videos, attaching correct metadata and ensuring legal rights compliance ****(35%)
***** Lead in the creation of cataloging standards for media assets ****(15%)
***** Collaborate with content teams to promote media assets on the Society and its Partners platforms, including responding to internal requests for specific photo assets and researching the DAM for broader photo requests ****(20%)
***** Develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures for finalizing grants media requirements and update media asset information in the grants database ****(10%)
***** Follow up with grantees and content teams to ensure completion of grants media requirements ****(10%)
***** Help assist with onboarding and training new staff, specifically interns and potential incoming coordinators ****(5%)
***** Liaise, when needed, with media partners to collect and catalog media assets ****(5%)
******** Educational Background
**** Bachelor's degree in Library & Information Science or related field. Advanced knowledge of Digital Photography preferred.
**** Minimum Years and Types of Experience
**** 3+ years of video and/or photography experience, including cataloging media.
**** Necessary Knowledge and Skills
***** Strong research, communication, and organizational skills
* Attention to detail and ability to understand and prioritize multiple requests from different stakeholders across the Society and its Partners
* Must be a self-guided, creative, highly organized, and motivated individual
* Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to work through problem-solving on a growing team
* Basic understanding of legal and rights terminology
* Must be capable of exercising flexibility, multitasking, and working effectively with others on tight deadlines
**** Desired Qualifications
***** Knowledge of metadata standards and experience in library and archives settings a plus
* Knowledge of Adobe Suite a plus
**** Supervision
* *** No direct reports
** Salary Information
** The National Geographic Society offers a competitive and holistic total rewards package. Our compensation structure and transparent pay philosophy are based on industry-specific market data for similar-sized nonprofit organizations.

The salary range for this position accounts for a wide range of factors including but not limited to organizational need; specific skill sets; experience and training; certifications; and more. At the National Geographic Society, individuals are typically hired at or near the starting point of the salary range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

The salary range for this position is $58,900.00 - $62, addition, the National…