Key information:

• Job title: Oral History Project Coordinator
• Contract: 12 hours per week, fixed term until March 2026
• Salary: £26,000 pro-rata
• Location: Edinburgh / hybrid working
• Deadline for applications: Monday 11 November 2024 (12 noon)

Job summary

This post of Oral History Project Coordinator represents a unique opportunity to work with Edinburgh’s Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive to develop an Oral History Project (OHP). The OHP will explore the impact and legacy of the Lavender Menace and West & Wilde Bookshops (1982-97), and more generally community experiences of reading LGBT+ books and magazines, and ways reading – now and in the past – has impacted on their identity. Stories and interpretation will be shared online as well as through a programme of events and a temporary exhibition.

The Oral History Project Coordinator’s key activities are:

• Recruiting, supporting, training and coordinating volunteers to become involved in the OHP.
• Identifying OHP interview participants and devise ways to capture the individual and collective voices and stories of LGBT+ community members.
• Working with partners and stakeholders in the development and delivery of the project.
• Acting as the main point of contact for the volunteers and interviewees, to arrange and set up interviews, liaise with volunteers and interviewees.
• Ensuring policies, systems and processes are in place to collect, store and use all audio and visual material collected.
• Promoting the OHP and its programme of events, creating materials for use on social media, website and in the temporary exhibition, and ensuring the Archive’s profile is raised through these activities.

These activities build on the existing programme of events and projects under the responsibility of the existing Community Project Coordinator with the team of volunteers. The Oral History Project Coordinator will thus be able to tap into their experience, contacts and knowledge in taking this work forward.

To apply

For further information and to apply, download the job description and application form on Goodmoves:

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Email your completed application form to maruska.greenwood@lavendermenace.org.uk by 12 noon on Monday 11 November 2024.

Do not attach CVs or other papers – please use the application form only.