IT Specialist; Collections Information Integration Specialist

The National Gallery of Art welcomes all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and shared humanity. As one of the world’s leading art museums, it serves as a center of visual art, education, and culture. Visitors can enjoy masterpieces by renowned artists, international exhibitions, and a wide range of public programs—all free of charge. The museum is located in Washington, DC, and is dedicated to enriching lives through art and cultural engagement.

In this role you ll:

• Map and align metadata across Library, Archives, and Art collections to ensure cross collection interoperability.
• Support the mission by preparing, transforming and aligning library and archival metadata for integration with enterprise systems as part of the Collections Access and Discovery Project.
• Translate metadata requirements for software and data engineering teams.
• Participate in cross-functional planning meetings and working groups related to metadata management, data pipelines and discovery initiatives.
• Ensure that metadata standards, data structures and other collections information workflows support interoperability across systems and alignment with the Gallery’s broader data ecosystem.

For all positions individuals must have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies listed below. The employing agency is responsible for identifying the specific level of proficiency required for each competency at each grade level based on the requirements of the position being filled.

• Attention to Detail
  - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• Customer Service
  - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services;
  
  is committed to providing quality products and services.
• Oral Communication
  - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
• Problem Solving
  - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

• Specialized experience is at least one year of experience, equivalent in responsibility to the GS-11 level in the federal service, translating metadata requirements into system features and then testing those features in both a test and production environment.
• This role requires comprehensive and expert knowledge of library and archival metadata standards and frameworks, including: MARC;
  Dublin Core; MODS; EAD; METS; DACS; IIIF; RDF. Uses tools and programming languages such as Open Refine, MARCEdit, XSLT, Python and XML/JSON-based workflows.