Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a private, nonprofit international broadcasting corporation that broadcasts and publishes news, information, and commentary to Asian countries whose governments prohibit access to a free press. The Digital Media Asset Management Lead’s primary responsibilities are facilitating the modernization of RFA’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) system - including workflow, archiving, and ingest of new content; overseeing metadata standards for RFA’s editorial teams and overseeing company-wide cataloging and retrieval of digital media assets.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the inventory of current media assets and establishing metadata standards and controlled vocabularies.
• Building and supervising RFA’s DAM team and establishing consistent workflows across Editorial departments.
• Working with editorial teams and the Technical Operations Division to ensure the DAM system facilitates efficient content production and cataloging
• Establishing metadata standards and ensuring they are implemented consistently across all content systems.
• Facilitating content retrieval for use in news production. Assisting producers and others with requests for media files for their project needs.
• Utilizing databases and the internet to organize and confirm the accuracy of metadata
• Ingesting media into digital systems and cataloging video, audio, text, and photo assets.
• Researching video, audio, and other assets as needed using in-house and external resources.
• Evaluating audio and video for archiving and rights issues and maintaining quality control of archiving operations

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 4 years of professional library experience working with digital asset management systems. A Master’s degree in Library Science (MLS) or Library Science and Information Systems (MLIS) is strongly preferred.
• Chinese, Korean, and/or other RFA target language abilities and experience with multilingual cataloging are strongly preferred.
• Experience in a multimedia news environment is strongly preferred.
• Ability and readiness to learn new systems and technology.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously in a deadline-oriented environment.
• Prior media production experience is a plus.
• Interest in Asian history, society, current events, and news is also a plus.
• Excellent knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications and Google Workspace applications.
• Able to work effectively in a multicultural environment.

RFA is an equal opportunity employer committed to workforce diversity. RFA encourages all qualified individuals to apply. If hired, the candidate must provide proof of eligibility to work in the US as an employee of RFA. RFA reserves the right to reconsider or withdraw any offer of employment to any candidate whose authorization to work in the US as an employee of RFA, or extension of such authorization, would require RFA to file or support a petition or related documentation.

How to Apply: Send résumé with cover letter making reference to “Digital Media Asset Management Lead” via e-mail to rfajobs@rfa.org

Job Email id: rfajobs(at)rfa.org