MITH seeks full-time "Community Lead"
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland in College Park is seeking a full time Community Lead for at least 12 months to represent MITH projects using social media (including our blog, Twitter feeds, and Website), and to communicate the importance of the work to a range of different constituencies, including scholars, librarians, and university administrators. The Community Lead will organize and execute a strategic plan for engagement and outreach, and represent several of the largest projects in which MITH participates, including Preserving Virtual Worlds, the Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE), and especially Project Bamboo.
Made possible by a major Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is a collaboration among the University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology. Since its founding in 1999, MITH has become internationally recognized as one of the leading centers of its kind, achieving a track record of prominent and successful grant funded projects from NEH, the IMLS, the Mellon Foundation, and the NSF, among other agencies and funders. Its collaborators include the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Kennedy Center, and the Smithsonian, among many others. MITH’s strength is its collegial spirit, born of the value it places on its staff and their experiences, and the ideas they bring to the team.
Project Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary partnership that brings together humanities scholars, librarians, and information technologists to tackle the question of how we can advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services. The Preserving Virtual Worlds project, whose partners include the University of Illinois, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and Stanford University, aims to improve the capacity of libraries, museums, and archives to preserve computer games, virtual worlds, and interactive fiction. A collaborative project between MITH and Indiana University, the Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool for creating and editing image-based electronic editions and digital archives of humanities texts.
BA/BS degree required; proficient written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrable experience in writing for online environments; experience using social media (Twitter, Blogs, Wikis); basic understanding of HTML; experience using content management systems (WordPress, MediaWiki)
Demonstrable engagement with the digital humanities community; web design experience; strong public speaking skills.
Salary range: $40,000-$50,000 commensurate with experience. The University of Maryland also offers a competitive benefits package. Apply online at jobs.umd.edu, click on “faculty” postings. For best consideration, apply by March 4, 2011.
The University of Maryland, College Park, actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity, and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, gender, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, national origin, or political affiliation. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.
Apply online at http://jobs.umd.edu, listed as Position #02181041 in the faculty section. For best consideration, apply by March 4, 2011.
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