IT Specialist (Collections Information Integration Specialist)

Full Job Description

The National Gallery of Art welcomes all people to explore art, creativity, and our shared humanity.

Nearly four million people come through our doors each year—with millions more online—making us one of the most visited art museums in the world.

Our renowned collection includes nearly 160,000 works of art, from the ancient world to today.

Admission to the West and East Buildings, Sculpture Garden, special exhibitions, and public programs is always free.

Basic Requirements: For all positions individuals must have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies listed below.

The employing agency is responsible for identifying the specific level of proficiency required for each competency at each grade level based on the requirements of the position being filled.

Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.

Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.

Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

In addition to the basic qualification requirements above: Specialized experience is at least one year of experience, equivalent in responsibility to the GS-11 level in the federal service, translating metadata requirements into system features and then testing those features in both a test and production environment.

Major Duties:

Maps and aligns metadata across Library, Archives, and Art collections to ensure cross collection interoperability.

This position supports the mission by preparing, transforming and aligning library and archival metadata for integration with enterprise systems as part of the Collections Access and Discovery Project.

Requires comprehensive and expert knowledge of library and archival metadata standards and frameworks, including: MARC; Dublin Core; MODS; EAD; METS; DACS; IIIF; RDF.

Uses tools and programming languages such as OpenRefine, MARCEdit, XSLT, Python and XML/JSON-based workflows. Translates metadata requirements for software and data engineering teams.

Participates in cross-functional planning meetings and working groups related to metadata management, data pipelines and discovery initiatives.

Ensures that metadata standards, data structures and other collections information workflows support interoperability across systems and alignment with the Gallery's broader data ecosystem.