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THE EUROPEAN LIBRARY OFFICE IS LOOKING FOR:

Are you interested in bringing the hidden treasures of Europe’s Museums, Libraries, Archives and Audio visual collections to the web? Do you have a strong background in publishing for the web or in European projects? Are you visionary and persuasive? Then join the EDL Foundation at the National Library of the Netherlands and create with us, the operational www.Europeana.eu to give the world access to the cultural heritage of Europe.

The EDL Foundation, hosted by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands, is involved in several successful projects aiming at developing Europeana: the European digital library.

We are looking for a dynamic, self starting Business Developer, with international experience. You are able to get the biggest and best of Europe’s cultural institutions on board and contributing content. You need to have an understanding of the techniques of internet publishing, have a grip on European cultural heritage strategy and the ability to convince at all levels. You will have fund raising experience.

You will develop the business of Europeana, its partners, models, and policies. You will oversee all projects relating to Europeana, initially these include: Arrow, (publishers and libraries), an Archives Portal, EDLlocal (regional museums, libraries, archives), Athena (museums) and EFG (European Film Gateway). You will also seek and develop new projects and opportunities for partnerships and funding (both public and private) for Europeana and the EDL foundation. You will be responsible for developing the longer term strategies for the sustainability of Europeana. You will recruit and manage a team of between 10 people rising to 15 by 2012. This team will work to create: a partner programme; put in place and manage a marketing and communication strategy; manage projects and help develop policies for governments and ministries on the exposure of European cultural heritage.

You will be experienced at a European level in the planning and executing of projects with large technical components. You are not expected to come from a technical background but some knowledge of web publishing would be useful. You are a well organized, lateral thinker with extremely good communication skills. Your tasks will include the creation and management of the overall strategy, the development of policy and selling of the idea.

The job will entail frequent European travel and management of your budget.

Profile:

1. Degree level
2. Prince II methodology
3. Results oriented and strategically aware
4. Broad knowledge of worlds of libraries, museums and archives or of publishing
5. Able to represent the service and its projects at all levels of meetings
6. Sales and marketing experience
7. Fund raising experience
8. Management experience

Competencies:

1. Initiative taker
2. Analytical
3. Decision maker
4. Visionary
5. Persuasive
6. Influencing
7. Logical
8. Budget creation & management
9. Very high level written and spoken English

Our Offer:

A 24 month contract based at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, The Netherlands. According to the CAO – onderzoekinstellingen the salary scale indicated for this job is 13, maximum of € 5266.00 gross per month on the basis of a 40 hour week. In addition you will be entitled to 43 days holiday per year plus holiday pay and an annual bonus of 8 and 6.1% respectively.

Interested? For questions about the job please call or email Jill Cousins +31 (0)70 314 0952 Jills Cousins@kb.nl. Send your CV and application letter to solliciteren@kb.nl for the attention of Ina Dijkstra with ‘Vacaturenummer 2008071 in the subject line.

Closing date: May 5, 2008

Have you had experience in creating functional specifications from user requirements? Do you like to show people what you mean? Are you a good communicator? Would you like to create the Europeana.eu prototype accessing the cultural heritage items of the Museums, Archives, Audio-visual collections and Libraries of Europe? Then come and work with this very international team.

The European Library, hosted by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in its Research and Development Department, has received funding from the European Union to undertake a project to develop Europeana

The job requires the understanding and interpretation of the business and the technical and semantic interoperability requirements from a broad range of cultural heritage backgrounds. The ability to project manage the technical development of Europeana, write the documentation and undertake some of the development is a pre-requisite. You will have past experience in technical project coordination and a practical knowledge of how to develop tools and services. You are likely to have worked in web publishing or portal development, but are looking for a new challenge. Some travel will be necessary.

Profile:

1. Computer scientist, with 5-10 years of experience
2. Java expert
3. Good experience with indexing and search engines
4. Good experience with retrieval and manipulation of large data sets
5. Software engineering and information modeling skills
6. Experience with Service-oriented architecture

Competencies:

1. Analytical
2. Problem Solving
3. anagement and coaching of programmers
4. Able to play an active role in an international network and to get relevant people involved
5. Able to circulate information to persons with various degrees of technical knowledge
6. Good oral and written skills in English language
7. "Customer satisfaction" oriented

Our Offer:

A 19 months contract based at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, The Netherlands. According to the CAO – onderzoekinstellingen the salary scale indicated for this job is 11, maximum of € 4270,- gross per month on the basis of a 40 hour week. In addition you will be entitled to 42 days holiday per year plus holiday pay and an annual bonus of 8 and 5.4% respectively.

Interested? For questions about the job please call or email Jill Cousins +31 (0)70 314 0952 Jills Cousins@kb.nl. Send your CV and application letter to solliciteren@kb.nl for the attention of Ina Dijkstra with ‘Vacaturenummer 2007- 102 in the subject line.

Closing date: April 30th, 2008.