Digital Assets Clearance Specialist

Under the direction of the Content Manager, the Digital Assets Clearance Specialist will act as the point person for clearing archival and multimedia assets for the Multimedia Textbook on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, a project of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
The Multimedia Textbook brings together distinguished scholarship, open access technology, and ethnic studies pedagogy to deepen public knowledge about Asian American and Pacific Islander histories. This resource is geared toward students and instructors in 9th-14th grade classrooms.
The Digital Assets Clearance Specialist will research, track, and clear digital assets for our multimedia textbook project from initial research stages all the way through clearance. Applicants must have experience with research, archival pulls, clearing multimedia materials, fair use knowledge, and liaising with legal and production to clear images/footage/media assets for use.
Percentage of Time:
100
Shift Start:
9:00 am
Shift End:
6:00 pm
Qualifications for Position
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Qualifications
Required/Preferred
3-5 years of experience clearing multimedia materials for use in large-scale and/or digital education projects
Preferred
Skill to accurately develop complex project plans, resource requirements, and project cost estimates; ability to deliver projects within budget, using resources efficiently and effectively
Required
Ability to understand the process involved to adapt, integrate, and modify existing systems for a quickly-evolving project.
Required
Ability to facilitate and oversee multiple workstreams of assigned functions/areas with common objectives
Required
Skill to accurately develop complex project plans
Required
Ability to understand the process involved to adapt, integrate, and modify existing systems for a quickly-evolving project
Required
Leadership experience in facilitating meetings and working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders in academia, from the community, and other Center staff.
Required
Skill providing direction, training, and feedback to collaborators
Required
Strong interpersonal and public speaking communication skills, both written and spoken in dealing with scholars, students, educators, editors, writers, reviewers and publishing personnel.
Required
Strong professional and academic writing skills.
Required
Excellent organizational skills
Required
Bachelor of Arts in Asian American Studies or related field, or equivalent combination of relevant experience and education
Required
Master of Arts in Asian American Studies or related field, or equivalent combination of relevant experience and education
Preferred
Demonstrated ability to summarize, compose, and produce weekly documentation reports
Required
Proficient in common applications in Google Suite and Microsoft Office Suite
Required
Familiarity with professional messaging programs like Slack
Preferred
Familiarity with project management programs like Asana, Trello, and Notion
Preferred
Additional Posting Information
Bargaining Unit:
99-Policy Covered
Application Deadline:
06-04-2023
External Posting Date: