Consultant Project Pay

(Basic Job Function)

This is a project pay position. Provides a wide variety of consulting services including conference, seminar or workshop design/presentation; operations review and analysis; project design, completion, coordination or management; or related consulting services.

Unit Position Summary

James Madison College is looking for a Consultant to help manage a large 15-person MSU student project team developing a digital archive on the collapse of the USSR. The position will include responsibilities of:

Completion of individual research and narrative text writing for the website using Russian language media

Providing research and writing support (both journalistic style prose and grant-writing)

Creation of metadata in Russian and English using Dublin Core standard.

Document scanning

Helping trouble-shoot problems with the development and maintenance of a web-based project (using the Omeka S platform), and

Responsibilities will also include work on developing educational and crowdsourcing tools, to be incorporated in the site.

Desired Qualifications

Fluency or near fluency in Russian

Minimum 2 years of college credits earned

Experience with Omeka S

Knowledge of Dublin core metadata standards (for Russian as well as English)

Experience working with Trello team sites

Background in Soviet or Russian studies

Good writing and editing skills

Experience using the entire Microsoft Office software suite

Experience using R and Python

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

Required Application Materials

Resume, writing sample, and two references.

Work Hours

ON-CALL