Please note – and this is important – that the following position announcement is tentative and pending both funding and final institutional approval. If you are interested in the position, please contact Professor Michael Satlow at satlow.sabbatical@gmail.com.
IIP Project Manager Job Description
The “Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine” project (www.brown.edu/iip) is devoted to collecting and assuring open access to the inscriptions (texts written on durable materials) from the region of Israel/Palestine that date to around the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE. The inscriptions are an invaluable resource for historians, but for non-academics also offer a fascinating window into the past. We are supported by the Brown University Library.
We are now seeking seeking a part-time project manager. The position involves running the day-to-day operations of the website. It reports directly to the principal investigator and works closely with the technical director.
Your primary job duties would include:
- Help hiring, training, and supervising student workers who encode inscriptions;
- Encode inscriptions and proofread encoded inscriptions;
- Correct and clean encoded data;
- Research inscriptions to encode;
- Solicit, coordinate, and edit short, accessible essays on the inscriptions;
- Help to add linguistic and content tags to inscription data;
- Keep the documentation updated;
- Help to shape the direction of the project.
The ideal candidate:
- Has or is working towards a PhD in a relevant field, and has working knowledge of ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew (modern and ancient), and Aramaic, along with one or two European languages (French or German preferred);
- Is, or can be, comfortable, working with encoding inscriptions in XML using an EpiDoc conformant schema;
- Is comfortable working with common digital platforms, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Sheets, and Trello;
- Is self-motivated and can dependably invest about 15 hours per week in the project most weeks of the year and is available for meetings once every week or two;
- Has experience supervising and motivating undergraduate students;
- Can generate and present at conferences independent research based on the project;
- Is enthusiastic about the mission of the project and can generate and help implement new ideas to improve it.
The job can be done remotely, although the candidate must be available to work with the team based in Providence, RI. The start date is September 1, 2020. Pay would be by the hour and there are no benefits. There is a chance that this job could be renewed for a total of three years.