Job Opening Title:
Born-Digital Poetry Fellow (Term Limited)
Name of Employer:
Washington University in St. Louis
Job Site Location (City, State) :
St. Louis, MO
Application Deadline:
Minimum Degree Requirement:
Masters or combination of education and experience
Years of experience required:
Salary Range:
55,000
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Position Summary
The Born-Digital Poetry Fellow will manage the programming, processing, and academic activities of the Born-Digital Poetry: Planning for the Future of Literary Archives grant project, that will bring together poets, scholars, and special collections practitioners to tackle the essential questions that surround the acquisition, discoverability, preservation, and use of born-digital poetry collections. Working closely with project staff, the fellow will process the born-digital content of the Mary Jo Bang Papers; coordinate and facilitate multiple workshops and advisory board meetings with diverse stakeholders; assess and evaluate born-digital processing tools; and coordinate, contribute to, and edit project deliverables including a revised finding aid, best practices for processing born-digital poetry, a poet’s guide to digital preservation, and a white paper examining this complex issue.
Job Description
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
Coordinate and facilitate workshops and advisory board meetings. This includes working with curator to identify participants which will include poets, academics, curators, and other stakeholders; communicating regularly with participants; coordinating participant travel arrangements; planning and facilitating workshops and meeting programing including itineraries and discussions/focus groups; and synthesizing, assessing, and distributing key meeting and workshop takeaways.
Process born-digital content of the Mary Jo Bang Papers. This includes overseeing ingest and digital forensics of media, quality control, and description of materials. This also includes assessment of open-source tools for born-digital processing to inform future workflows and best practices for processing of born-digital poetry collections.
Coordinate, contribute, and edit grant deliverables and supervise graduate student intern. Works closely with project staff to assess and analyze key findings identified via the grant activities and conducts relevant research.
Contributes to best practices, poet’s guide, and white paper, and edits final deliverables, that outlines project findings that includes, but is not limited to practices for born-digital processing, curatorial considerations of born-digital poetry collections, and needs of emerging poets and scholars working with born-digital content.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Working Conditions
Occasional lifting (<25 lbs).
Ability to move to one and off-campus locations.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working with special collections or archival collections, ideally poetry collections.
Experience with digital assets, spreadsheets, and metadata.
Strong analytical skills, creative and innovative problem-solving. Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal and communication skills for in-person and virtual settings.
Demonstrated project management experience.
Demonstrated commitment to promoting and/or enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in an organizational context.
Demonstrated experience managing projects and/or events.
Demonstrated success in building networks and community.
Interest in academic writing, publishing and/or program development.
Demonstrated experience and/or interest in Digital Humanities.
Ability to work collegially and independently within a small team that must be flexible and extremely responsive to users.
Proficiency with commonly used productivity and project management software (e.g. Teams, Gitlab) and ability to learn new technologies with ease.
Evidence of excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
Excellent organization and analytic skills.
Ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
Working knowledge of MS Office applications.
Demonstrated commitment to providing outstanding customer service.
Required Qualifications
ALA Accredited MLS/MLIS or other subject MA (or higher degree) within one or more of the assigned subject disciplines.
Or equivalent combination of education and experience.
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Salary Range
Base pay is commensurate with experience.
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