Position announcement: ArchivesSpace Standards and Testing Archivist
Bailey-Grace Harrell
We are now accepting applications for a new three-year term position on our team: Standards and Testing Archivist. This job may be particularly appropriate for an early career archivist.
The person in this position will split their efforts between standards support and testing-based activities and serve as the liaison to the User and Technical Advisory Council sub-teams who are involved in these activities. For the standards part of their time, they will keep track of the overall archives standards landscape and ArchivesSpace’s support of specific standards that are important to our current and future community, with a particular focus on creating crosswalks and other tools to improve ArchivesSpace’s support of international standards like ISAD(g). The testing part of the job will include doing regular manual testing of the ArchivesSpace application to make sure things work correctly and writing behavior scenarios and simple automated tests to improve our testing coverage overall. Like all ArchivesSpace jobs, it is fully remote and professional travel and training relevant to the work of the position will be paid for and encouraged.
The full job description is on the Lyrasis jobs portal. Applications must be received through the portal and must include a cover letter and resume. The deadline to apply is July 7, 2025.
