The Assistant Digital Asset Manager supports the Digital Asset Manager with organizing, cataloging, curating, and archiving NGS digital assets including videos, photos, documents, and other media files. The Assistant Digital Asset Manager helps support and enhance the goals and mission of Special Collections by assisting to catalog, promote and share the collected visual assets with NGS, our media partners, and other end users. This includes researching rights and clearance information, creating accurate descriptions and precise keywording, providing final quality assurance of media before ingesting assets into the Society's digital asset management system and updating grants system and internal constituencies. The Assistant Digital Asset Manager will follow proper collection policies, guidelines, and workflows when dealing with NGS digital media files. This is a fixed-term position with an end date of 12/31/31. Your Impact Responsibilities Include Cataloging (70%) Under supervision of the Digital Asset Manager, the Assistant Digital Asset Manager will be responsible for cataloging, including writing full captions of all media assets going into the NGS Digital Asset Management (DAM) system. Attention to detail is paramount (grammar, punctuation, formatting). This will include working with media contributors to research and obtain knowledge about the area and project. Help maintain metadata standards, ensuring accurate and consistent tagging and cataloging for easy searchability and discoverability. Ensure digital assets are following established protocols. Prepare media assets by adding complete metadata (including keywords, credit line, project number, asset usage codes) for usage in the NGS DAM. Ingest and (Fulfillment 30%) Assist with verifying and cross-checking assets being uploaded into NGS DAM, verifying assets are ready and available for NGS DAM users. Assist with the ingesting of media content into DAM. Assist with creating video and photo collections for internal/external requests.