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🔗Research and Strategic Initiatives Manager
Website American Association for State and Local History
The American Association for State and Local History, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, is a national membership association serving those who preserve and interpret history. AASLH provides leadership and resources to help the history community thrive and make the past more meaningful to all people. From its headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee, AASLH conducts research and advocacy efforts, publishes books, technical publications, and a magazine and maintains numerous affinity groups and committees serving a broad range of constituents across the historical community. The association also sponsors online professional development training, regional and national training workshops, and an Annual Conference. For more information, visit https://aaslh.org/.
The Research and Strategic Initiatives (RSI) Manager furthers the work of the American Association for State and Local History’s RSI department through program development and implementation, project management, and support in administration, research, writing, and partnerships. Working closely with the Director of RSI, this position helps advance innovative research, advocacy, and strategic efforts that serve and strengthen the history field at the local, state, and national levels. This is full-time, exempt, remote position, with occasional travel expected.
Key Responsibilities:
Program development, coordination, and implementation (~55%)
- With support from department leadership, design and implement RSI webinars, workshops, and other programs and products from conception through launch
- Provide project management and program development support for RSI initiatives, including coordinating logistics, researching potential partners and speakers, creating evaluation tools, and drafting internal planning documents and external communications
- Draft and manage agreements with speakers, advisors, vendors, partners, and others
- Draft and coordinate agendas, scheduling polls, and outreach for stakeholder convenings and engagement opportunities
- Coordinate workflows across departments, especially Professional Development (PD) and Marketing, to support program delivery and outreach
- In collaboration with the PD team:
- Build and manage program content within AASLH’s learning management system and provide live technical support during RSI virtual programs
- Work with partners and staff to develop post-event materials, including recordings, transcripts, surveys, and resource packages
Research and writing (~25%)
- Support advocacy, strategy, and partnership needs through targeted research assignments
- Prepare draft presentations, slideshows, and other content for internal or external departmental presentations
- Contribute to written content, including newsletters, blog posts, grant proposals, evaluation tools, practitioner resources, and more
- Monitor news media, publications, and other sources for developments related to advocacy, research, and public policy impacting the field
Administrative duties (~20%)
- Support internal project management and tracking systems, digital file organization, and departmental planning and reporting
- Process payments and track expenses and revenue; support annual budgeting processes
- Support logistics, contracting, and payments for the History Leadership Institute
- Provide planning, technical, and staffing support for in-person RSI convenings and the AASLH annual conference
- Participate in organization’s membership engagement efforts
- Contribute to other projects and programs as assigned
Benefits
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Eligibility
To be eligible, applicants must be
*at least 18 years old;
*no older than 30 years of age (or 35 years if a Veteran) when beginning the internship; applicants who are 31 or older (or 36 or older if a Veteran) are not eligible;
*currently enrolled in a degree-seeking academic program at the college level (or recently graduated within the past 12 months)
*be a U.S. Citizen or permanent resident.
Interns are not allowed to work more than 1200 hours total in the program; previous interns must stay within this overall limit. The length of an internship can vary from 10 to 30 weeks if full-time (40 hours per week) or longer if on a part-time schedule. If selected, the exact starting date will be determined by you and the NPS supervisor. The stipend rate is $17.00 per hour unless otherwise listed.
The successful candidate is responsible for finding and paying for travel to and housing at the internship location; some exceptions apply. The supervising office may be able to assist in locating housing but it is ultimately up to the individual accepting the internship to find accommodation.
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