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This is an EXCITING time to Join the City of Richmond! We are committed to nurturing talent, fostering growth opportunities, and building strong connections within our workforce. As we continue to make strides to becoming the employer of choice, we are thrilled about the below employee benefit enhancements:

• Virginia Retirement System (VRS)
• Language Incentive
• Referral Bonus
• Tuition Assistance Program

Description

The City of Richmond seeks dynamic, enthusiastic, and hardworking people to join its team as a Community Memory Fellow (CMF) for the Richmond Public Library (RPL). This is a 12?month long position with a 40-hour work week to leverage RPL's position as an enduring, trusted public institution to collect, preserve, and share the work of the CMF with the public served. A college degree is not required, and applications are welcomed from professional and amateur historians, writers, artists, and/or community leaders. RPL recognizes the importance of inclusive recruiting for this position and is dedicated to this approach.

The position is based at the Main Library and will conduct field work, meetings, and public programs within RPL locations and throughout the city. A CMF helps to access a diverse and wide interpretation of public history.

The incumbent will be a self-motivated individual who is an excellent communicator and listener, team player, problem solver, and most importantly, exudes good customer service. Selected candidates will join a dynamic team of individuals focused on providing excellent, prompt, and accurate services to both external and internal customers while achieving the following mission: Inform, Enrich, Empower

The Richmond Public Library is committed to becoming an employee of choice AND we are dedicated to the growth of our workforce. We value our employees and seek to attract and retain the best. We are also committed to individual, professional growth!

Duties include but are not limited to

• Supports the Richmond Room as a primary starting point for historical research on the City of Richmond
• Promotes use of the Memory Lab and Personal Archiving Kits through outreach and public programs outside of the libraries
• Promotes use of and contributions to RPL’s Special Collections
• Produces public programs that engage the community on a wide-variety of local history topics and themes
• Develops an oral history collaborative strategy to preserve Richmond voices
• Develops and maintains relationships with other institutions, organizations, and individuals who do public history work

Qualifications, Special Certifications and Licenses

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Broad knowledge of Richmond’s history, including people, places, and things, including documented and not-yet-documented history
• Knowledge of the local aspects or manifestations of larger historical forces (Civil Rights, Civil War, Urban Renewal, Reconstruction, etc.)
• Understanding of the local public history landscape, including organizations, individuals, past and current projects, and trends
• Awareness of trends and best practices in historical scholarship
• Using discretion to determine appropriate space, resources, and other amenities that are appropriate for each program
• Writing grants and reports as needed
• Oral and written communication
• Oral history recording technology
• Strong literacy and digital literacy skills
• Digitization skills, working with scanners and similar technology
• Be creative
• Make decisions
• Self-motivated, able to imagine a project or outcome and work to realize it
• Speak publicly

MINIMUM TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:

• Past or current participation in public history work
• Experience conducting and cataloging oral histories
• Exhibit preparation and public presentations such as lectures and/or workshops
• Potential CMFs should reside or have a long history of residence in the City of Richmond
• An equivalent combination of training and experience (as approved by the department) may be used to meet the minimum qualifications of the classification.

PREFFERED TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:

• Educational background in history or related field (undergraduate or graduate degree)
• Training in preservation or collections management
• Past work experience at a public history institution or organization such as a museum, historical society, public library, and/or archive, etc.

LICENSING, CERTIFICATIONS, and/or OTHER SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• None Required

Americans with Disabilities Act Requirements

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. Prospective and current employees are invited to discuss accommodations.

ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS: Working conditions may include exposure to travel to other locations within the City of Richmond as well as outside of the City of Richmond; exposure to hazardous physical conditions such as mechanical parts, electrical currents, vibrations, etc.; atmospheric conditions such as fumes, odors, dusts, gases, and poor ventilation; inadequate lighting; intense noise; and environmental hazards such as disruptive people, imminent danger, and a threatening environment.

Physical Requirements and Working Environment:Due to the nature of work assignments, incumbents must be able to perform detailed work on multiple, concurrent tasks, with frequent interruptions and under time constraint. The essential duties of this classification may require the ability to regularly perform repetitive motions, see, hear, talk, feel, finger, crouch, and kneel; frequently crawl, reach, stand, and push; and occasionally grasp, lift, pull, walk, stoop, and climb. The working conditions may not include any environmental hazards. In terms of the physical strength to perform the essential duties, this classification is considered to be light work, exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The City of Richmond provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

The City of Richmond is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, the City of Richmond will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If you require reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to participate in the job application and/or the interview process, please contact Jessica McKenzie, Talent Acquisition Partner, Senior at (804) 646-4705 or by email at Jessica.McKenzie@RVA.GOV.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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With over 4,000 employees, the City of Richmond is an "Employer of Choice" among cities throughout the nation. The City strives to hire and retain employees who bring dedication and talent to the workforce. Offering a competitive, cost effective, and quality benefits package is one element of an "Employer of Choice".
The City offers a full range of benefit programs from initial hire through retirement. Please visit our Web site for details.