Repositories Officer in Toowoomba

Join the University of Southern Queensland's Library team and help ensure learning, teaching and research content remains accurate, accessible and discoverable. As Repositories Officer, you will support the Library's learning and teaching systems and research repository while contributing to responsive, innovative and continually improving services for students, teaching staff and researchers. The position may be based in Toowoomba, Springfield or Ipswich.

Who you are

You are a detail-focused library professional who takes pride in creating accurate, consistent and accessible records. Comfortable working across digital library systems, you can manage a high volume of work, meet deadlines and apply sound judgement when solving problems within established policies and procedures. You communicate clearly, build effective relationships and work equally well independently or as part of a collaborative team. You bring curiosity, strong digital literacy and an evidence-based approach to improving library services in a University environment.

What you'll do

• Process and review course readings and other learning and teaching resources;
• Create, edit and maintain metadata for learning, teaching and research content;
• Process, moderate and audit research outputs contributed to the University's research repository;
• Support compliance with copyright, licensing, publisher policies and accepted metadata standards;
• Maintain accessibility and apply appropriate access controls;
• Undertake data cleansing and metadata integrity activities;
• Compile and analyse repository statistics to support reporting and evidence-based decision-making;
• Review procedures, guidelines, FAQs, system performance and work processes;
• Contribute to continuous improvement across the Library's repositories and services.

What will help you succeed

• An undergraduate degree, or an Associate Diploma with at least two years of subsequent relevant library experience;
• Demonstrated accuracy and attention to detail in records processing, data entry and data cleansing;
• Experience working with cataloguing standards and metadata schemas;
• Knowledge of copyright, including copyright for educational purposes, and open access publishing;
• Familiarity with course readings management, repository and catalogue software and associated systems;
• High-level digital literacy across repositories, library systems, communication tools and generative AI;
• The ability to compile and analyse statistics and use professional literature to recommend improvements;
• Strong written, verbal, interpersonal and collaborative skills.

Experience supporting learning, teaching and research within an academic library environment will be highly regarded.

For further information about this role, please contact Mrs Tracy Quixley, Senior Repositories Coordinator via +61 7 3470 4039.

The University offers a range of different ways of working and connecting across our physical and virtual spaces to meet the needs of our students, partners and community. We value diversity and strive to foster an inclusive environment that is underpinned by our values and champions, embraces and respects differences.

We support and encourage applications from all diversity groups.