The Keats-Shelley Association of America is looking for a new Communications Fellow!
Job Description
Keats-Shelley Association of America (K-SAA)
Stipend: $1000
Hours: 5 hours/week
Communications fellows play an important role in creating visibility around K-SAA events and happenings across the literary community. This position offers an opportunity to help build a digital presence for the K-SAA that keeps its members, as well as interested public audiences, in touch with current scholarship and conversations surrounding Keats, the Shelleys, and the Romantics more broadly.
To set up regular content for our Blue Sky, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Blog, and Substack (approximately 4 blog posts + 8 social media posts across platforms + 1 Substack post per month)
- To update website content, design, and graphics where necessary
- To promote K-SAA calendar of meetings and events
- To develop our Instagram feed (at least 1 post per week) 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
- Aware of and adept in higher education’s attention to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Desirable: individuals with an active social media presence, who can be reactive and responsive to our audiences and current discourses in Romanticism. We are especially looking for someone to establish our presence on TikTok and Substack and for individuals with proficiency in graphic and web design
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 July 15th. Brief interviews will be held the following week, with the positions to begin August 15th.
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Keats-Shelley Association of America (K-SAA)