Digital Asset Manager

It’s enabling better access to the Royal Collection’s rich body of digital resources both now and for future generations.

It’s helping to tell a unique story -showcasing incredible conservation work, sharing moments from royal history or how a Royal Palace is used today. This is what makes working for Royal Collection Trust so different.

The Royal Collection Trust is dedicated to the care and preservation of one of the largest and most significant art collections in the world, comprising over a million objects spread across 15 royal residences in the UK. We are passionate about making this extraordinary collection accessible to the public through exhibitions, loans, and educational initiatives.

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Digital Asset Manager to lead the transition of our Digital Asset Management (DAM) system to the cloud. This pivotal role will involve collaborating with key stakeholders to define metadata schemes, ensuring our digital assets are meticulously catalogued, and preparing for a seamless migration to a new cloud-based DAM system.

In this role you will be responsible for ensuring all our digital files are preserved and made accessible so they can continue to be enjoyed by all our users now and in the future.

Key Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility to ensure the successful transition of all our digital files from our current storage system to our cloud-based offering.
• Define and implement a comprehensive metadata scheme and develop a thesaurus of approved terms for tagging assets.
• Through configuring the new cloud DAMS environment, you will plan and prepare for the migration, ensuring integration with existing systems.
• You will manage the end-to-end project, co-ordinating with colleagues across the organisation to meet deadlines and specifications.
• Ensuring its continued success, you will provide training to users and conduct a full audit of digital assets, working towards consolidating them into a single repository.

Essential Skills:

• With previous experience in a similar role, you will have a relevant DAM system qualification, or significant experience in DAM system management or digital image library management, coupled with a deep understanding of cataloguing and metadata protocols.
• You can review and improve existing systems and implement best practice.
• You’ll also have experience of developing and implementing DAM workflows and co-ordinating User Acceptance Testing.
• An effective communicator, you can also design and deliver training programmes for the wider team.
• With good stakeholder management skills, you’re adept at collaborate effectively with people at all levels.
• With excellent written skills you can produce reports and communications for a range of audiences.

Benefits:

We know that to deliver our best work; we need to feel at our best. That’s why at the Royal Household we offer a generous benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and life priorities.

Enjoy 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days (plus bank holidays) dependent on the length of time you have worked for us.

Our excellent non-contributory pension plan (we’ll contribute 15% and you can contribute more if you wish) is highly valued by our employees, as is complimentary lunch on-site to keep you fuelled throughout the day.

We also offer a range of leave options to support your life priorities, such as parental pay and leave and volunteering days, as well as benefits to support your physical and mental wellbeing.

Other perks include 20% off at our Royal Collection Trust Shops and complimentary admission tickets across all our locations, along with many more exclusive employee discounts.