The employee performs the following functions:
- Maintains communication with representatives of artists, art scholars, creative and other organizations, and collects information on documents worthy of inclusion in the National Document Fund.
- Accepts documents from individuals and organizations for inclusion in the National Document Fund.
- Manages large and complex collections related to representatives of the arts (literature, fine arts, music, theater, cinema, etc.), cultural figures, families, genealogies, and collections, reorganizes them, and improves their descriptions.
- Prepares accounting documents for organized, reorganized, or supplemented collections and submits them for review and approval by the archive’s Document Expert Commission.
- Writes informational articles and creates virtual exhibitions.
- Prepares draft legal acts on the acquisition, management, and other issues related to personal, collection, and organizational fonds within the department’s competence.
- Assists in preparing responses to thematic inquiries and provides necessary information to readers and other employees.
- Develops and conducts educational programs on history and culture for various archive visitor groups.
- Accepts documents for digitization in accordance with the Archive’s established procedures, prepares them for processing, ensures their security, and returns them upon completion.
- Digitizes selected archival or intellectual creative documents (photographs, writes texts, creates databases, compiles collections of exhibits, books, or other works, and prepares curated content units).
- Converts images into various formats and saves them.
- Edits digital images (adjusting size, brightness, contrast) and performs other image corrections.
- Visually inspects the quality of produced digital images.
- Checks whether the electronic version’s structure corresponds to the original document's structure.
- Prepares electronic title sheets for digitized documents.
- Organizes, refines, supplements, and submits data to the Electronic Archive Information System (EAIS).
- Continuously improves professional qualifications by studying specialized literature, participating in internships, seminars, and conferences, and keeping up with innovations.
- Performs other one-time assignments from the department head to achieve the objectives set in the archive’s annual plans.
The employee must meet the following special requirements:
- Be familiar with the Law on Documents and Archives of the Republic of Lithuania and other regulatory legal acts governing the use, accounting, management, and preservation of documents.
- Have knowledge of archival document management, file storage in archives, electronic document preparation and management, and archive storage requirements.
- Understand document preparation rules, retention periods, and the procedures for transferring, discarding, and selecting documents for permanent preservation.
- Hold a higher university or equivalent education in the field of humanities (history, fine arts, music, theater).
- Have at least three years of experience working in an archive or document management.
- Be knowledgeable about Lithuanian cultural history, cultural and artistic institutions and organizations, different art forms and genres, and representatives of artists and art scholars, and continuously expand and update this knowledge.
- Be capable of evaluating cultural processes, selecting the most valuable and characteristic documents, and understanding the responsibility for preserving the content of collected and managed documents.
- Be able to manage, collect, systematize, and summarize information, identify problems, assess them, formulate tasks, propose well-reasoned solutions, prepare conclusions, and make decisions.
- Express thoughts clearly in writing and speech, analyze and summarize information, prepare well-founded conclusions, and independently plan and organize work.
- Be proficient in using the "Microsoft Office" software package.