A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume or CV. The cover letter must address the nature of your interest in the position and how your education and/or past work experience has prepared you for this work.
The Flint Neighborhood History Project is a collaborative urban memory project that documents and interprets artifacts and residents’ oral histories of Flint, Michigan's original Black neighborhoods. These neighborhoods, segregated by federal redlining policies (beginning in the 1930s) and destroyed by urban renewal projects (in the early 1970s), now live in the cultural networks that connect displaced residents. Together with our community partners and neighborhood groups, the project team works to develop community-based and university archives, oral histories, and web-based visualizations of the lived history of life in those neighborhoods and the lives of residents following demolition.
This position will operate as the Project Coordinator. The Project Coordinator will work under the supervision of the Principal Investigator to coordinate the activities and events related to this grant-funded project which will include: administrative and communications support, project management, material and data management, and event planning directly contributing to research activities. The coordinator must be willing to learn and speak about publicly-engaged Humanities research and about the technologies commonly used in digital Humanities research; and to serve as an enthusiastic and effective advocate for the Project.
The coordinator will support a grant-funded community-engaged public humanities research project in direct collaboration with university faculty and staff and community partners. Specific duties include:
Administrative
Project coordination
Material and Data Management
Events
Monday through Friday with occasional night/weekend hours. This position will start in July 2022 and end in June 2023 or at the completion of FY 23 projects.
This is a hybrid opportunity. Some work will be performed on campus and in the community.
This is a grant funded, half-time position. Weekly hours will not exceed 20.
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