Director of Operations and Communications
Job Description
Keats-Shelley Association of America
Honorarium: $10,000/year
Hours: 10 hours/week
- Acts as administrative home for the organization: streamlines its internal communication; oversees administrative workflow for K-SAA officers; schedules and organizes officers meetings, directors meetings, and members meetings
- Maintains and actively manages K-SAA calendar of meetings and events, including reminders to officers and directors of upcoming and urgent tasks
- Keeps track of all projects, committee/working group reports and other Association documents
- Oversees and monitors social media accounts (X/Instagram) and the K-SAA Blog
- Maintains an active flow of posts on these accounts (see activity expectations in Communication Fellows description)
- Designs and delivers new media content (Blog series etc.), with the support of the Communications Fellows
- Strategizes how to increase engagement on social media and readership on the Blog
- Selects new Communications Fellows each year (with the assistance of the K-SAA Board), supervises them and hosts regular online team meetings
- Works with the K-SAA Secretary and VPs to circulate news of K-SAA events and projects over feeds
- Responsible for timely organizing, adding, and updating website content (alongside Fellows)
Other Helpful Skills
- High-touch alacrity with email and other forms of communication
- Excited by ongoing organization and fast-paced communication with a wide variety of people inside and outside academia
- Quick editor and nimble social media poster
- Skilled with Squarespace, Venmo, and other web-based software
- Thoughtful and adept with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts within higher education
Communications Fellows (x2)
Job Description
Keats-Shelley Association of America (K-SAA)
Stipend: $1000
Hours: 5 hours/week
- To set up regular content for our X feed and Blog (approximately 4 blog posts + 8 social media posts per month)
- To update website content where necessary
- To promote K-SAA calendar of meetings and events
- To develop our new Instagram feed and monitor its progress
- To respond to enquiries on social media platforms
- To design and curate blog posts, including soliciting authors from the academic community
- To monitor the success of these endeavors and to research potential further developments
- To attend regular online meetings with the Director of Communications
- Desirable: individuals already active on X, who can be reactive and responsive to our audiences and current discourses in Romanticism
- Aware of and adept in higher education’s attention to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
It is not a requirement that candidates be based in the United States. All candidates should, however, belong to the K-SAA or be willing to become a member. We are especially committed to a diverse Board and staff at K-SAA alongside equitable working conditions that put thoughtful inclusion at the center of our values.
To Apply:
Please send a resume and a paragraph of interest to ksinger@mtholyoke.edu by May 24th. Brief interviews will be held the following week, with the positions to begin mid-June.