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Job posting, Digital Humanities Specialist I (Cengage Learning)

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    From: “Costain, Bret M” <bret.costain@cengage.com>
    Date: Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 1:32 PM

    *Digital Humanities Specialist I*

    Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, seeks a creative, collaborative, and
    experienced individual to join our team as a *Digital Humanities Specialist*.
    Responsible for supporting and assisting the evolution of Gale’s Digital
    Scholarship Program, the successful candidate will serve as a key support
    and development liaison to key customers that are engaging in advanced
    humanities research as well as Gale’s technology development. The *Digital
    Humanities Specialist* will identify trends and activities in digital
    humanities taking place on campuses throughout the academic market, provide
    digital scholarship support services, and support libraries’ role as the
    central research hub on campus.

    Reporting to the Director of Humanities Publishing, the *Digital Humanities
    Specialist* will provide on-site support and guidance for digital
    humanities scholars and students that are using Gale and OER content and
    tools to drive active research. Responsibilities will focus on working
    collaboratively with colleagues at Gale and throughout our academic
    customer base to advance research activities and the use of primary source
    content in the scholarly workflow. The *Digital Humanities Specialist*
    will develop and conduct workshops on Gale’s digital scholarship resources
    and work collaboratively with other Gale team members in pursuit of new
    tools and features/best practices. The *Digital Humanities Specialist* will
    participate in Hackathons and other extra-curricular development activities
    to build and evolve new technologies that support our librarian and student
    users.

    The position is ideally suited for (but not limited to) someone with an
    interest in scholarly research and publishing, native language processing,
    data visualizing, and text analysis. Working on a team of dedicated
    digital scholarship and publishing professionals, this position will offer
    the successful candidate the opportunity to engage in continuing research
    execution and support using a broad array of computational techniques
    including network analysis, concept extraction, and natural language
    processing.

    The *Digital Humanities Specialist* will provide subject-specific
    leadership for collection building and management, as well as promote
    library collections, programs, and services. As an integral member of
    Gale’s Digital Scholarship program, the *Digital Humanities Specialist*
    will assist with the development of DH-related tools and materials that
    will be used by key accounts in the academic space. This role will also
    conduct in-depth research to inform future technology and content needs
    both at Gale and at point of use in academia. With a solid understanding
    of current research resources and technologies, the *Digital Humanities
    Specialist* will assist in the development of instructional materials and
    new features in Gale’s Digital Scholarship research platform. Active
    engagement with faculty and students throughout our customer base is
    required.

    This role is specifically responsible for the promotion, support, and
    ongoing development of Gale’s Digital Humanities Sandbox, a research
    environment designed to enable and assist digital scholarship in the
    academic community.

    *Overview of responsibilities*

    § Conduct on-site DH Symposiums designed to facilitate the establishment
    and growth of DH-related activities in the library and across campus.

    § Work with members of Gale’s Digital Scholarship Team to establish
    training schedules, scope of development work, and organize interaction
    with customers and students.

    § Collaborate with other Product Managers across Gale and Cengage Learning
    to determine, define and utilize synergies and economies within product
    development.

    § Understand, support and communicate company strategy internally and
    externally.

    § Track the competitive landscape and market position for all responsible
    projects and initiatives, identify new market-specific opportunities, and
    conceptualize and test product ideas.

    § Collaborate on market research, product positioning and customer
    communications.

    § Help define and support customer training strategies and prescribe
    related tactics.

    § Represent Gale and Cengage Learning at relevant industry and customer
    events

    § Build relationships with customers that support the product lines and
    company objectives.

    § Understand and translate the market requirements for the evolution of
    scholarly research in the humanities and social sciences.

    § Ensure that product development and support strategies are communicated
    to, and understood by technology project teams and 3rd party vendors.

    § Work with Technology Management to ensure projects are appropriately
    resourced.

    § Develop and maintain high-level relationships with partner firms and
    organizations necessary for the success of Gale’s Digital Scholarship
    Program.

    § Develop and maintain high-level management of consultants and advisory
    editors necessary for the success of the ongoing product development.

    § Develop, maintain and publicize a product family strategy designed to
    increase revenue, drive student usage, and manage costs.

    § Report regularly on project/role status to senior management and
    internal stakeholders

    § Analyze, interpret and then report out to team and senior management on
    performance against results.

    *Qualified candidates should have:*

    § Strong programming skills in either Python (Pandas) or R

    § Ability to manipulate, explore, and visualize data using the latest
    analytical tools

    § Knowledge and use of at least one of the following: social network
    analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, concept
    extraction, etc.

    § A demonstrated interest in scholarly communication

    § Understanding and experience working with third party APIs

    § Published in peer-reviewed journals or other scholarly publications

    § Experience with Tableau or other data visualization tools

    § Research design expertise

    § Academic background in the humanities, arts, or related fields

    § Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, interpersonal) and the
    ability to establish strong rapport with cross-functional teams and
    customer in order to effectively collaborate and build partnerships.

    § Demonstrated understanding of the current research, information
    resources, and scholarly trends in humanities disciplines, including
    knowledge of emerging issues and technologies.

    § Demonstrated experience with or knowledge of metadata creation and
    maintenance.

    § Demonstrated experience with technologies, metadata schemas, scripting
    languages, or computational methods used in digital humanities projects.

    § Proven ability to acquire new skills and adapt to changes in the
    profession

    § Strong public service orientation.

    § Ability to travel within and outside North America. Expected travel:
    30%

    *Preferred Education/Experience*

    § Advanced degree in a humanities or arts discipline.

    § Experience with or a degree in the field of Data Science is a plus.

    § Minimum of two years of experience in an academic or research library,
    or in an academic or research environment.

    § Experience participating in the development and use of DH-related tools.

    § Experience with providing information literacy instruction and research
    consultations in an academic/research library.

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