Please note: The salary listed above will increase effective July 1, 2024 in accordance with the bargaining unit contract. Updated salary amounts will be provided at the time of interview.
What You Will Be Doing
Working with a small, skilled, and fun team, you’ll help make historical Alaskan newspapers accessible to researchers and the general public through the Chronicling America website at the Library of Congress. You’ll be responsible for day-to-day technical production work of the program such as liaising with staff, vendors, and the Library of Congress contact; creating metadata according to provided standards; reviewing batches of enhanced images; tracking the moving parts of the project closely; and creating outreach for the Digital Newspaper Project. You will collaborate on selecting newspaper titles by performing copyright research and working with the Newspaper Title Advisory Committee. This position is grant-funded for approximately two years with anticipated extension approval.
PLEASE NOTE: The incumbent may be required to travel within or outside of the state, generally no more than once or twice per year. This position may require lifting and moving up to 30 pounds.
Mission and Culture
The Department of Education and Early Development's Alaska State Library collects, organizes, preserves, and makes accessible materials that document the history of Alaska for the benefit of all Alaskans. We strive to ensure a variety of materials, from photographs to manuscripts, territorial records to periodicals, books, newspapers, and maps relating to Alaska’s history are available for research and review. As part of this work, the Alaska State Library was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress grant to digitally preserve and provide free access to historical Alaskan newspapers in a searchable online database.
Benefits of Joining Our Team
This position offers the opportunity to do meaningful work in historic preservation, while allowing creativity and flair in managing the social media and other outreach for the project. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to learn new skills, gain project management experience, and grow their professional network through outreach and liaison work.
The Working Environment You Can Expect
This position is located in the Andrew P. Kashevaroff Building with dedicated parking and easy access to all of the amenities of downtown Juneau, including an onsite café. We share a large and comfortable open office and processing space with the Alaska State Archives and the building with the Alaska State Museum. With beautiful views of the mountains and the Gastineau Channel, lovely art, and competitive rubber chicken shooting events to get the energy going, we take our work, but not ourselves, very seriously.
Our ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following competencies:

• Project Management: Knowledge of the principles, methods, or tools for developing, scheduling, coordinating, and managing projects and resources, including monitoring and inspecting costs, work, and contractor performance.
• Quality Management: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and tools of quality assurance, quality control, and reliability used to ensure that a project, system, or product fulfills requirements and standards.
• Communications and Media: Knowledge of the production, communication and dissemination of information and ideas to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media and social media.

Minimum Qualifications

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  Adaptability: Adjusts planned work by gathering relevant information and applying critical thinking to address multiple demands and competing priorities in a changing environment.
• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: Uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one’s knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
• Reading Comprehension: Understands and interprets written material, including technical material, rules, regulations, instructions, reports, charts, graphs, or tables; applies what is learned from written material to specific situations.

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• Health insurance, which includes employer contributions toward medical/vision/dental
  • The following employee groups are under AlaskaCare Benefits administered by the State: See https://drb.alaska.gov/help/plans.html for additional information.
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    • Confidential
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    • Marine Engineers
    • Mt. Edgecumbe Teachers
    • Supervisory
    • Unlicensed Vessel Personnel/Inland Boatman's Union
    • Exempt employees (not covered by collective bargaining)
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• Employer paid Basic Life insurance with additional coverage available (amount depends on Bargaining Unit)

• Group-based insurance premiums for
  • Term life (employee, spouse or qualified same sex partner, and dependents)
  • Long-term and short-term disability
  • Accidental Death and Dismemberment
  • Long-term care (self and eligible family members)
  • Supplemental Survivor Benefits
• Employee-funded flexible spending accounts for tax savings on eligible health care or dependent care expenses

• Membership in the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)/Teachers' Retirement System (TRS)
• Matching employer contribution into a defined contribution program (new employees)
• Employer contribution into a defined benefit or defined contribution program (current employees)
• Contributions to the Alaska Supplemental Annuity Plan in lieu of contributions to Social Security
• Option to enroll in the Alaska Deferred Compensation Program
• Note: The Defined Contribution Plan, Supplemental Annuity Plan and Deferred Compensation Program offer a variety of investment options