We are looking for new leadership volunteers to support the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers.
Since its founding in 2020, The Recovery Hub for American Women Writers has fostered a community for practitioners who use digital methods to recover the neglected works of American women writers. With our peer review showcases and project consultation and cultivation services, we work to make digitally recovered works more discoverable, sustainable, and preservable.
We have just finished our second National Endowment for the Humanities grant, and, to make the Hub itself more sustainable going forward, we would like to offer leadership roles to an expanded group of interested scholars. We hope to cultivate an egalitarian, feminist organizational structure in which each of the positions below would bear equal weight in decision making.
If you are interested is volunteering for a role with the Recovery Hub, please send an email to our shared address indicating which position you are interested in, and briefly explain why the position interests you, based on your experience and future goals. It takes many forms of expertise to move an organization like the Recovery Hub forward, so not let a lack of experience with technology or the digital humanities deter you!
Sent inquires to recoveryhub@siue.edu no later than February 15.
Positions will be three-year commitments. See details of each below:
Showcase Editor
- Puts out twice-yearly calls for project showcases
- Finds showcase reviewers
- Facilitates the review process
- Packages yearly showcase reviews for Reviews in DH
- Collaborates on grant writing
Organizational Coordinator
- Schedules and plans meetings
- Oversees communications
- Oversees file management
- Builds and supports network of organizations invested in Recovery Hub, including historical societies, libraries, etc. and works to expand the membership base and advertise membership benefits
- Manages financials
- Facilitates grant management
Cultivation Coordinator
- Manages cultivation process
- Sends out cultivation calls
- Writes and negotiates cultivated project MOUs
- Works with network to develop a cultivation schedule for the year among staff and membership network
- Collaborates on grant writing
Consultant Coordinator
- Plans Tech Hour schedule in consultation with team
- Drives recruitment and training of consultants
- Manages consultant process, ensures consults receive feedback forms, and that consultants are paid
- Oversees pedagogical review process
- Collaborates on grant writing
Technology Coordinator
- Managing editor of resource library
- Manages additions and revision to library in consultation with team and seeks content creators among membership
- Supports cultivation and consultant coordinator’s work by offering resources and reviewer suggestions where available
- Keeps documents and data up-to-date, and versioned
- Offers advice and suggestions on new technologies useful to team
- Writes technical sections of grant applications
Assessment Coordinator
- Conducts user testing
- Runs focus group and exit interviews
- Manages long term data and tracks longitudinal statistics and outcomes
- Performs assessment as described in grants and writes assessment portions of grants