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Director of Development sought for The HistoryMakers, a national non profit educational institution committed to preserving, developing and providing easy access to an internationally recognized archival collection of thousands of African American video oral history interviews.   Annual revenues are currently $1.5-$2 million but seek to grow to $3 million annually. The Director of Development will report directly to the Executive Director. (S)he must have worked with a small non profit, had prior successful experience with event fundraising, capital campaigns, major gifts, annual campaigns, gift solicitations, naming opportunities and individual, corporate and foundation giving. A prior grant writing background would be preferred and academic training in the humanities would be a plus.

COMPENTENCIES

AFFECTIVE:
This individual must demonstrate a commitment to the mission of The HistoryMakers and the ability to function in a mission-oriented organization.

EXPERIENCE:  

  1. Significant knowledge of event fundraising, major giving, annual and capital campaigns.
  2. Ability to develop and manage the systems, procedures and strategies to secure major gifts.
  3. Excellent interpersonal, organizational, written and verbal communications skills.
  4. Experience with federal, corporate and foundation grants;
  5. Event planning experience of upscale small and large events.
  6. Interacting professionally with diverse individuals of means, including donors, trustees, and volunteers;
  7. Significant project management experience and great administrative skills;
  8. Knowledge of the educational, humanities-related, museum or other archival fields.
  9. Bachelor’s or master’s degree.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

  1. Play an instrumental role in planning and implementing The HistoryMakers An Evening With…celebrity interview PBS-TV interview series as well as smaller events.
  2. Develop solicitation strategies that meet The HistoryMakers’ fundraising goal.
  3. Develop an excellent understanding of the organization, its programs, goals, and clientele, and be able to articulate these in a compelling and ethical manner to donor prospects.
  4. Research, write, and submit proposals on a timely basis to secure appropriate funding
  5. Develop and maintain a project tracking system for timely submission of reports and follow-up activities.
  6. Develop all briefing materials, strategies, proposals, presentations, reports, etc. in accordance with The HistoryMakers guidelines.
  7. Represent The HistoryMakers at all times professionally and adhere to The HistoryMakers confidentiality and ethics procedures.
  8. Perform all other duties as from time to time assigned.
  9. Travel occasionally.  Candidate should own a car and have a valid driver’s license and
  10. Fulfill other duties as assigned.

COMPUTER SKILLS:
Highly proficient in MS Office, Word, Access. Excel

Salary and Benefits

Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications. The HistoryMakers also offers a competitive benefits package that includes 403(b), PTO, health, vision and dental insurance, tuition reimbursement and school loan repayment assistance.

The HistoryMakers

The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive(www.thehistorymakers.org), is a one-of-a-kind collection, housed permanently at the Library of Congress. Its website (www.thehistorymakers.org), accessed by millions worldwide, is sited in Wikipedia and used as a “go to” reference tool. Its digital archive(https://da.thehistorymakers.org user name: info@thehistorymakers.org; password: THMDemo) has been licensed by colleges, universities, K-12 schools and public libraries for use by faculty, students and patrons and is growing in popularity in the wake of COVID19 and the focus on online learning. Within the next few years, The HistoryMakers will become the digital repository for the Black experience: providing much needed content, role models, success pathways and frameworks for a 21st century citizenry that has become increasingly less tolerant, divisive and economically and educationally disparate. 

Please send resumes to:

The HistoryMakers

1900 S. Michigan Ave. | Chicago, IL 60616

info@thehistorymakers.org

 

The HistoryMakers, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit African American video oral history archive, seeks to hire a full time Non Profit Database & IT Administrator to work in a fast-paced, cross-platform MAC/OS, Windows environment. This a newly created position and part of the responsibilities will be serving as the Project Manager for a Mellon Foundation grant that will overseeing the creation of a new online platform combining The HistoryMakers website with The HistoryMakers Digital Archive and the ScienceMakers Digital Archive along with associated metadata. In doing so, you will be working with staff from Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon University and a consortium of other groups. Your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following:   

RESPONSIBILITIES

  1. Maintenance of the organization’s FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Access, MYSQL, HTML5 and Drupal databases including updates, modifications, additional programming, etc.
  2. Maintenance of the organization’s system architecture and IT network consisting of approximately 30 Windows workstations and Windows 2008 server running Xendata HSM, a NAS Appliance, an LTO-4 Library, 2 Apple X-Serve Servers;  Duties may include setting up administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software, validating and implementing critical system patches, installing server hardware, and allocating mass storage space. Interacts with users and evaluates vendor products.
  3. Develop standards and methods of reliable interoperability between all of the software systems.
  4. Analyze the organization’s data requirements in order to support the business processes within the scope of the organizations’ capabilities;
  5. Front tier support for a digital video network and archival network comprised of a Database administrator for organization’s Microsoft Access, MYSQL, FileMaker and Drupal databases ensuring the accuracy, interconnectivity of all system databases;

DESIRED SKILLS

  1. Have great communication skills and project coordination skills
  2. Must be flexible and extremely well organized
  3. Must be able to learn on one’s feet
  4. Must be knowledgeable and experienced with Microsoft Access and/or FileMaker Pro
  5. Must be experienced at system documentation and file management
  6. 5+ years of experience with the cleanup, maintenance and design of FileMaker Pro and Microsoft Access databases along with their associated applications; database clean up, design and development using SQL Server 2008, SQL Queries, Apple OSX Server and X-Serve hardware, stored procedures, views, SQL Reporting Services, etc.;
  7. 1-3 years of experience with Microsoft  2003/2007 Server or Small Business Server and with Active Directory and Exchange and familiarity with  layer 2-3 networking concepts including commonly used TCP-UDP ports, IPD subnet addressing and routing and basic network troubleshooting;
  8. Detailed-oriented and committed to the organization’s mission with the ability to work  50-60 hours per week; and
  9. Prior experience with an early stage organization and the desire to work in a non-profit environment

Salary and Benefits

Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications. The HistoryMakers also offers a competitive benefits package that includes 403(b), PTO, health, vision and dental insurance, tuition reimbursement and school loan repayment assistance.

The HistoryMakers

The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive(www.thehistorymakers.org), is a one-of-a-kind collection, housed permanently at the Library of Congress. Its website (www.thehistorymakers.org), accessed by millions worldwide, is sited in Wikipedia and used as a “go to” reference tool. Its digital archive(https://da.thehistorymakers.org user name: info@thehistorymakers.org; password: THMDemo) has been licensed by colleges, universities, K-12 schools and public libraries for use by faculty, students and patrons and is growing in popularity in the wake of COVID19 and the focus on online learning. Within the next few years, The HistoryMakers will become the digital repository for the Black experience: providing much needed content, role models, success pathways and frameworks for a 21st century citizenry that has become increasingly less tolerant, divisive and economically and educationally disparate. 

Please send resumes to:

The HistoryMakers

1900 S. Michigan Ave. | Chicago, IL 60616

info@thehistorymakers.org

 

The HistoryMakers, a 501 ( c) (3) and the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive(www.thehistorymakers.org), seeks to hire a Non Profit Digital Media Archivist who will be responsible for the planning and implementation of preservation, cataloguing and records management systems for The HistoryMakers videotaped oral history collection.

The Non Profit Digital Media Archivist will:

  1. Process, arrange and catalog the current collection of videotaped and born digital oral history interviews(each interview averages 3-6 hours in length.
  2. Adhere to the policies and procedures for managing born-digital materials for ingest, storage, preservation, organization, description, and access.
  3. Helps to ensure the accessibility of the collections digital resources including The HistoryMakers Digital Archive(https://da.thehistorymakers.org user name: info@thehistorymakers.org; password: THMDemo) and other special collections by determining the appropriate intellectual organization and digital storage structure, analyzing the intellectual content of the source material, and conducting historical research for the preparation of metadata descriptions.
  4. Design and manage digital collections by establishing the metadata schema, controlled vocabularies, and exercising quality control of the software, equipment and metadata records.
  5. Preserve the intellectual and artifactual value of physical archival material by determining the need for performing conservation procedures such as, document cleaning, repair, deacidification, and humidification.
  6. Provide access to archival collections by compiling finding aids, creating collection-level records or metadata descriptions, creating finding aids or controlled vocabularies to assist online researchers, and maintaining a database on collections and storage space allocation.
  7. Provide reference services for The HistoryMakers archival collections.
  8. Assist in fundraising activities in doing research, writing and seeking external grant funding for processing projects, records surveys, online interpretive exhibits, and publications.
  9. Promote knowledge and use of The HistoryMakers Digital Archive by making presentations, talks, and/or interviews to the media, library groups, historical societies, and elementary through college classes.
  10. Performing all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have a graduate degree in African American or American history, library science with a concentration in archival management, or other related field. The candidate must have 3-7 years prior experience working in a non profit archive or library with video/AV material resources.

Qualifications

The candidate will have:

  1. Significant experience with records management systems for organizational records.
  2. Knowledge of standards in moving-image cataloging and the creation of finding aids including knowledge of EAD and EAC-CFP.
  3. Experience with videotape formats, in particular Beta cam SP; and migrating collections using an encoding system like Samma Solo.
  4. Strong project planning and time management skills;
  5. Familiarity with computer databases (i.e. Microsoft Excel, FileMaker, Oxygen, Photoshop) and Microsoft Office Suite.
  6. Ability to work in close cooperation with The HistoryMakers Founder & President and our Consulting Archivist.

Salary and Benefits

Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications. The HistoryMakers also offers a competitive benefits package that includes 403(b), PTO, health, vision and dental insurance, tuition reimbursement and school loan repayment assistance.

The HistoryMakers

The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive(www.thehistorymakers.org), is a one-of-a-kind collection, housed permanently at the Library of Congress. Its website (www.thehistorymakers.org), accessed by millions worldwide, is sited in Wikipedia and used as a “go to” reference tool. Its digital archive(https://da.thehistorymakers.org user name: info@thehistorymakers.org; password: THMDemo) has been licensed by colleges, universities, K-12 schools and public libraries for use by faculty, students and patrons and is growing in popularity in the wake of COVID19 and the focus on online learning. Within the next few years, The HistoryMakers will become the digital repository for the Black experience: providing much needed content, role models, success pathways and frameworks for a 21st century citizenry that has become increasingly less tolerant, divisive and economically and educationally disparate. 

Please send resumes to:

The HistoryMakers

1900 S. Michigan Ave. | Chicago, IL 60616

info@thehistorymakers.org

Non Profit Staff Accountant sought for The HistoryMakers, a national African American nonprofit educational/archival institution (https://www.thehistorymakers.org) with annual revenues of $2 million, seeking to grow to $3 million annually. He/she will report directly to the Chief of Staff and President. The applicant must be proficient in file management and extremely well-organized. He/she must have 3-7 years of prior fund accounting and business management experience.

COMPENTENCIES

Experience

  1. Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
  2. 3-7 years of fund and cost accounting experience.
  3. Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook. Knowledge of FileMaker Pro preferred. Strong and accurate typing speed and database entry.
  4. Prior experience supporting a capital campaign.
  5. Prior non profit experience preferred.  

Responsibilities:

  1. Handle monthly bill payments, bank and credit card reconciliations using Quickbooks.  
  2. Maintain excellent electronic and physical filing systems.
  3. Prepare and record daily deposits and expenses.
  4. Develop monthly and annual budgets as well as financial reports for the Board and other reports as needed.
  5. Monitor online contributions and donor acknowledgements are sent.  
  6. Support a capital campaign with physical and electronic filing systems and timely correspondence and receipts.  
  7. On-going front-office administrative tasks such as file maintenance, correspondence, mailings, greetings guests, problem-solving, etc.
  8. Other projects as needed.

Behavioral

  1. Must be a self-starter.
  2. Ability to be flexible and to multi-task with strong ability to meet deadlines.
  3. Highly organized and detail-oriented.
  4. Ability to manage multiple projects at the same time.
  5. Timely completion of work and strong ability to communicate verbally and in writing.
  6. Strong interpersonal skills.

Salary and Benefits

Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications. The HistoryMakers also offers a competitive benefits package that includes 403(b), PTO, health, vision and dental insurance, tuition reimbursement and school loan repayment assistance.

The HistoryMakers

The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive(www.thehistorymakers.org), is a one-of-a-kind collection, housed permanently at the Library of Congress. Its website (www.thehistorymakers.org), accessed by millions worldwide, is sited in Wikipedia and used as a “go to” reference tool. Its digital archive(https://da.thehistorymakers.org user name: info@thehistorymakers.org; password: THMDemo) has been licensed by colleges, universities, K-12 schools and public libraries for use by faculty, students and patrons and is growing in popularity in the wake of COVID19 and the focus on online learning. Within the next few years, The HistoryMakers will become the digital repository for the Black experience: providing much needed content, role models, success pathways and frameworks for a 21st century citizenry that has become increasingly less tolerant, divisive and economically and educationally disparate. 

 

Please send resumes to:

The HistoryMakers

1900 S. Michigan Ave. | Chicago, IL 60616

info@thehistorymakers.org

 

The HistoryMakers seeks to hire full-time Video Oral History Processors/Publishers to audit/edit, segment, write descriptive narrative descriptions and archivally process the life oral history interviews in The HistoryMakers Collection that are housed permanently at the Library of Congress and making accessible to users worldwide via The HistoryMakers Digital Archive. Those hired must have a background in African American, American, women and gender studies, anthropology, social history, economics, politics, STEM/medicine, the arts, library or information science or other related fields and will work as  part of a publishing team that will process and add 40-45 interviews/month to The HistoryMakers Digital Archive (each interview averages 4-6 hours in length). The person hired must have excellent writing skills. He/she must also have prior experience as a proofreader/editor and be an expert researcher and writer who can accurately describe in a concise and accurate manner the contents of each videotaped segment. The interviews cover 20th century history interviews across a wide variety of occupations, geographic areas and fields (i.e. STEM, law, art, education, music, etc.). The Processor/Publisher will be responsible for:

  1. Watching the assigned interviews in The HistoryMakers Video Oral History Collection (www.thehistorymakers.org) and proofreading each interview under a 3-4 interviews per week quota system;
  2. Audit/editing the assigned interviews and dividing the interviews with chapter headings to provide for easy access;
  3. Writing abstracts for each 30 minutes videotaped section of the assigned interview;
  4. Performing quality control testing on the assigned interviews and uploading them to The HistoryMakers Digital Archive;
  5. Evaluating each assigned interview in accordance with The HistoryMakers guidelines and procedures;
  6. Choosing video clips and assigning clip titles that reflect the clip’s contents for The HistoryMakers website; ‘
  7. Writing social media posts and blogs that reflect the content of the interviews;
  8. Working as a part of a team in order to process and add 40-50 interviews per month to The HistoryMakers Digital Archive.  

Candidates must have strong administrative skills (type 65 wpm), be naturally detailed, and possess superior proofreading and organizational skills. Prior experience with detailed paper file, desktop and electronic file management along with prior experience working with databases a must. Candidates must also demonstrate their ability to have sustained focus and an interest in furthering The HistoryMakers mission and growth.

Salary and Benefits

Salary begins at $40,000 per year. The HistoryMakers also offers a competitive benefits package that includes 403(b), PTO, health, vision and dental insurance, tuition reimbursement and school loan repayment assistance.

The HistoryMakers

The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive(www.thehistorymakers.org), is a one-of-a-kind collection, housed permanently at the Library of Congress. Its website (www.thehistorymakers.org), accessed by millions worldwide, is sited in Wikipedia and used as a “go to” reference tool. Its digital archive has been licensed by colleges, universities, K-12 schools and public libraries for use by faculty, students and patrons and is growing in popularity in the wake of COVID19 and the focus on online learning. Within the next few years, The HistoryMakers will become the digital repository for the Black experience: providing much needed content, role models, success pathways and frameworks for a 21st century citizenry that has become increasingly less tolerant, divisive and economically and educationally disparate. 

Please send resumes to:

The HistoryMakers

1900 S. Michigan Ave. | Chicago, IL 60616

info@thehistorymakers.org