Digital Asset Manager

Sightsavers is looking for a highly organised and collaborative Digital Asset Manager to manage our vast library of content
Salary: £35,000
Location: UK remote – with occasional travel to Haywards Heath, when required
Contract: Permanent
Hours: This is a full-time role with some flexibility around hours worked (a minimum of four days) and lots of home working

About the role
Sightsavers’ content and stories team has responsibility for developing creative concepts and content in response to communications briefs, as well as supporting the organisation with video and editorial services, and sourcing photography, video, audio and written stories from projects across Africa and South Asia. This work generates a huge volume of multimedia digital assets which need to be easily searchable by everyone in the organisation. We’ve recently moved to a new digital asset management system which requires an ongoing process of training and development.

We are looking for a Digital Asset Manager to be responsible for embedding and maintaining our new digital asset management system (Asset Bank), offering training and support to teams using and uploading assets. You’ll work closely with content producers and story collectors to develop workflows preparing and uploading new content and you’ll lead their implementation. As digital asset manager you’ll inspire staff with available content, finding creative ways to make the organisation aware of the assets the team is producing. You’ll need to make strategic decisions and plans for optimising and promoting the system and its contents, but you won’t shy away from getting stuck into the day to day of preparing and uploading content.

Key duties will include:
• Ownership of digital asset storage systems with strategic decision making about process, structure and content
• Asset preparation, upload and categorisation – maintaining consistency and quality across systems
• Asset promotion
• System development and maintenance, with a focus on user experience and searchability
• System support and training
• Cross team collaboration and learning

We’re looking for an organised individual with great communication skills. You’ll need to be able to make strategic decisions and plans for optimising and promoting the system and its contents, but you won’t shy away from getting stuck into the day to day of preparing and managing content.

To succeed in this role, you will need:
• Experience of developing and managing processes and systems
• Experience of working with digital asset management systems, preferably in an NGO
• Knowledge of Asset Bank highly desirable
• Proven experience of organising a wide array of assets and associated information at a high level, with accuracy and attention to detail and using a structured approach
• Proven understanding of digital image asset workflo w and processes
• Proven experience of gathering and implementing user feedback
• Good analytics and reporting skills
• Excellent understanding of consent processes for image use
• Solid knowledge of GDPR
• Good understanding of user experience principles
• Proven experience of delivering training
• Knowledge and understanding of digital file formats (image, video, etc) and medi a usage rights terminology
• Ability to identify the qualities of good images and stories, and the detail needed to make a complete story
• Awareness of content ethics, in the context of international development
• Experience of Microsoft SharePoint highly desirable

Please see the job description for further details

As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Si ghtsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people living with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.

Benefits
Sightsavers offers some fantastic benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous annual leave allowance, pension, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and wellness discounts. If you choose to work in or are visiting our collaborative, modern office space, you will find it an easy 20-minute train journey from Brighton or 45 minutes from London. This role can be worked part time (a minimum of four days with a pro rata salary) or full time within the UK.

Please complete an application via our recruitment portal. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying. There will be an expectation that you can attend at least quarterly meetings at our modern and collaborative offices in Haywards Heath, West Sussex (RH16 3BW) or Brighton. We anticipate that remote interviews will take place in early/ mid-April and the evaluation process will include a role-specific task to be completed at the second stage of the interview process.

As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.

In line with its commitment to safe programming and recruitment, Sightsavers participates in the inter-agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) administered by the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response. Through collaboration with other MDS members, Sightsavers aims to ensure that there are no sexual exploitation, abuse or harassment issues relating to potential new hires and that we can respond systematically to checks from fellow MDS members. This ensures our work is accountable, delivered to a high standard and supports safeguarding across the development and humanitarian fields.