Reporting to the Head of Digital Projects, the Digital Projects’ Snow Fellow works closely with the both the Digital Projects team and University Archives team to perform large-scale digitization and description of the Edgar Snow collection. This Missouri Humanities Council grant funded position will run from June 2025 to December 2025. The Digital Projects Fellow is a term-limited, part-time, non-benefit eligible, senior academic fellow and has no supervisory responsibilities.
Position Duties
Digital Scholarship Services
- Trains on best practices in digitization and digitizes roughly 20% of the Edgar Snow collection for digital publication
- Trains on best practices in metadata and describes roughly 10% of the Edgar Snow collection for digital publication
- Trains on digital publication and publishes digital Snow objects in Digital Project’s Islandora repository
- Provides regular outreach and promotional contributions for grant reports and updates, often in the form of blog posts, social media posts, and internal messaging of grant progress, coordinating with the Head of Digital Projects, the Head of Outreach and Engagement, and the Metadata Librarian.
- Professionally engages with best practices in digital collections, in order to create good user experience for library users and the UMKC community. assigned.
Work environment and schedule:
- The weekly schedule for this fellow will be part-time (20 hours per week) and should have significant overlap with the hours of the Digital Projects team, which varies by person, Monday-Friday in the 8AM-6PM CST range. This position is hybrid and will begin with in-office duties (digitization), located in the Miller Nichols Library on the UMKC campus and will move to mostly remote during the metadata and digital publication phase; approximately September through December 2025.
- The work environment consists of an individual workstation cube outfitted with standard office technology as well as an individual laptop setup for remote work.
Physical demands:
Essential physical abilities, to be accomplished with or without reasonable accommodation are:
- Clarity of speech and hearing which permits the employee to communicate effectively with the supervisor and other employees.
- Vision which permits the employee to produce and review a wide variety of library materials, written correspondence, reports and related materials in both electronic and hard copy form, including call number labels, which may be upside down.
- Manual dexterity which permits the employee to operate a keyboard and any other assigned equipment to process library materials.
- Personal mobility which permits the employee to monitor, supervise, and perform assigned library operations.
- Tolerance for exposure to small or moderate quantities of dust and mold.
Expectations
- Contributes to a safe and respectful environment for all users and employees of the UMKC Libraries.
- Exemplifies the UMKC Statement of Values and the University Libraries Values.
Minimum Qualifications
- Must be a current graduate student or recent graduate (within 6 months) to apply
- Adept at using computer and various applications; ability to learn new software and programs
- Dependable, professional, and agile work philosophy
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Some previous experience in with digital collections and/or archives; internships, coursework, jobs, etc.
- Some experience with any type of content management systems; internships, coursework, jobs, etc.
- Comfortable with writing procedural and technical documentation
- Demonstrably good teamwork in past professional environments
- Clear and candid communicator
How to Apply
Application materials must be submitted online through UMKC Human Resources. Search for job ID 55851 to apply.
Category (academic/librarian/staff/student):
Academic Appointment; term appointment.
Equal Employment Opportunity
The University of Missouri System is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal Opportunity is and shall be provided for all employees and applicants for employment on the basis of their demonstrated ability and competence without unlawful discrimination on the basis of their race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable state or federal law. This policy applies to all employment decisions including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, training, promotions, pay practices, benefits, disciplinary actions and terminations. For more information, visit https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/hr/eeo or call Human Resources at 816-235-1621.
To request ADA accommodations, please call the Office of Equity & Title IX at 816-235-6910.
