Indexer job description

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• The Indexer/Copyeditor Contractor works as part of a team that accurately creates, enters, edits, and maintains product information elements (metadata) for all products.
• The Indexer/Copyeditor Contractor focuses on ensuring completeness, accuracy, and suitability of all metadata.
• The Indexer/Copyeditor Contractor is also an energetic and creative troubleshooter who works with a wide variety of people regarding all issues related to content.
• The ideal candidate should be an avid consumer of media, including books/periodicals (audio and digital reader), websites, blogs, and other digital content sources.
• He/she is also a self-starter with impeccable organizational and analytical skills, a confident and upbeat communicator via written and verbal business communication skills, highly organized and detail-oriented, and able to thrive in a high-energy entrepreneurial environment.
• Previous proofreading and/or copyediting experience is required.

Key Accountabilities
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Product Metadata Indexing and Copyediting
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• The Indexer/Copyeditor Contractor proofreads and fact-checks all product descriptions and supporting information prior to releasing a product to be published to marketplaces (stores, Amazon.com, iTunes).
• Key elements such as a product's price, on-sale date, territory rights, availability, provider, royalty earner, associated Amazon ASIN code, and all taxonomy elements are top priority areas of review.
• The Indexer/Copyeditor Contractor also provides QA for style in product descriptions, data consistency, and related product linking for all product metadata.
• The Indexer/Copyeditor Contractor needs to meet daily copyediting quotas and complete prioritized processing requests.

Editorial
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• The Indexer/Copyeditor Contractor may need to research, edit, rewrite, or occasionally create descriptions for products.
• The Indexer/Copyeditor Contractor may need to research and assemble positive product review "blurbs” to be added to product descriptions.

Skills/Experience Requirements
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• BA/BS or equivalent degree, preferably in Humanities
• Editorial experience preparing online content
• Proofreading experience; copyediting experience a plus
• Working knowledge of database concepts (including Excel skills) and best practices
• Demonstrated multitasking and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment
• Demonstrated ability to work with a wide variety of people
• Demonstrated focused attention to detail
• Highly organized
• Technical proficiency in Windows operating environment
• An avid consumer of online media, including books (audio and print), websites, blogs, and other digital content sources.
• A confident and upbeat communicator via written and verbal business communication skills.
• Minimum one-year professional proofreading, copyediting, and fact-checking experience in publishing
• Minimum one year of experience in a Web-based publishing environment
• Familiarity with social media and Web-based research tools (e.g., Google, Goodreads)
• Basic familiarity with SEO concepts

About the Company
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• Our client is a company whose entrepreneurial spirit with a team of pioneers and inventors who are not afraid to disrupt the status quo and apply an innovative approach to everything they do—from revolutionizing an art form to enacting positive change in the cities and countries in which we operate. As the largest producer of audiobooks in the world, they are passionate about well-composed words that are artfully performed. The company’s consistent focus on technological innovation and superior programming has earned them many millions of habituated subscribers.
• The company’s People Principles celebrate who they are and where they have been, and guide the way they work shoulder to shoulder to enhance the lives of their millions of customers. They reflect and apply to everyone who works with our clients. The entrepreneurs and operators, the dreamers and the doers, those who have worked there for 20 years, and those who have arrived in the past few weeks and months.

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We are currently seeking Armenian Genocide Indexers to join the Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History within Information Technology Services. Indexers will be responsible for indexing oral history interviews with survivors and other witnesses of the Armenian Genocide. The indexing work involves researching, selecting and placing terms from a thesaurus into timecoded segments of the video or audio interview.

The successful candidate should have at least one year of experience with indexing as well as possess excellent analytical, writing and communication skills. They should be highly knowledgeable of about the history of the Armenian Genocide and versed with the geography of the Ottoman Empire and modern Middle East. Knowledge of Armenian, as well as experience in higher education, are strongly preferred.

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute was founded by Steven Spielberg in 1994 and has collected, cataloged, digitized and preserves interviews of Holocaust survivors and witnesses as well as survivors of other genocides and conflicts. The Institute houses nearly 55,000 audio-visual testimonies conducted in 63 countries and in 40 languages.

This is a fixed-term position with an anticipated end date of August 1, 2025 . This is a full-time role eligible for benefits including medical, dental and vision plans, a competitive 401K plan.

Using judgment and discretion, index the audiovisual interviews of Armenian Genocide survivors and witnesses in English and Armenian using the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's proprietary cataloging software and methodology:

•Catalog information taken from pre-interview questionnaires

•Watch the audiovisual testimonies and assign indexing terms from a VHA Thesaurus

•Conduct research to resolve specific indexing issues

•Complete the cataloging and indexing of the testimonies and any associated research

•Successfully complete approximately 50-hours of initial online training

•After the training period, work hours are flexible

Qualifications:

Must have a Bachelor's Degree or combined experience/education as substitute for advanced education

• Proven academic knowledge of History, Political Science, or Armenian Studies with coursework in Armenian/Ottoman/Turkish history and/or genocide studies, or equivalent knowledge
• Fluency in English and both Western and Eastern Armenian
• Fluency in one or more of the following languages desired but not required: Turkish
• Excellent research skills
• Attention to detail
• Computer proficiency
• Experience with relational databases
• Ability to take constructive criticism
• Ability to view and work with genocide-related material on a sustained basis
• Library science background and/or cataloging or indexing experience
• Familiarity with relevant names (geographic and proper) and foreign cultures
• One year of experience in an Indexing role
• Demonstrated experience researching and validating index terms
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively to gather information
• Typically possesses experience interpreting testimonies
• Typically possesses experience indexing in a second language
• Typically possesses experience in higher education
• Excellent analytical, writing and communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while balancing and prioritizing multiple projects
• Ability to learn, adapt quickly and work well under pressure.
• Demonstrated organizational skills, extreme attention to detail and ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

Job Accountabilities:

• Serves as departmental link between users and system technical staff to provide effective user service and to provide system and data control. Monitors system input and output for accuracy and currency of information. Liaises between technical staff and users to resolve problems and coordinate changes and enhancements.
• Maintains and updates system security and user access capabilities. Approves requests for new and/or changed access. Sets up users and maintains appropriate documentation.
• Contributes to the development of system standards and procedures. Incorporates knowledge of specific departmental functions and processes with knowledge of university and external agency regulations and practices to serve as a guideline for system development.
• Researches records and gathers information as background for special projects, enhancement of databases, decisions on requests for policy exception, and providing management reports.
• Provides reports to management regarding activities and recommends areas of improvement.
• Assesses user training needs and develops and implements programs to train new and continuing staff. Covers areas such as data security, quality and privacy awareness.
• Develops and maintains communications materials such as documentation and procedural manuals, resource or reference guides, newsletters, and bulletins to support system users.
• Evaluates and recommends refinements in department operations to ensure integrity of system data while maximizing productivity and providing high quality services.
• Reviews internal operations to determine compliance with established policies and procedures. Consults with managers and staff regarding irregular items and recommends action to departmental senior management when a deficiency is detected.
• Stays informed of new developments and technologies by reading journals and other pertinent publications, maintaining contact with vendors, and participating in professional organizations, meetings and seminars.
• Performs other duties as assigned or requested. The university reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MA-level or higher degree in History, Political Science, Sociology or Armenian Studies with coursework in Armenian/Ottoman/Turkish history and/or genocide studies, or equivalent knowledge
• Master's degree in Library and Information Science from an ALA accredited program
• Prior experience with USC Shoah Foundation's indexing applications
• 3 years of experience in a related role
• Knowledge of languages (Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic or Russian.)

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree, Combined experience/education as substitute for minimum education Minimum Experience: 1 year Minimum Field of Expertise: Detailed knowledge of systems for which position is accountable. Knowledge of various software applications as necessary for data collection and report writing.

REQ20121275 Posted Date: 08/07/2022