What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research Archivist Intern position at John Templeton Foundation?
Position Type: temporary internship up to 30 hours/week for a duration of up to 3 months
Learning Outcomes
The intern will gain experience conducting research on the foundation’s areas of historical grantmaking, using a variety of electronic databases and systems. The intern will work with the Planning and Evaluation team to align the scope of the internship with both the needs of the JTF team as well as their interests and professional development goals.
Areas of Responsibility
- Reviewing, organizing, scanning and synthesizing the foundation’s electronic and paper grantmaking related records.
- Supplementing existing foundation records with additional data from internet data sources, including academic publications, internal documents, scholarly curriculum vitae, etc.
- Preparing materials for potential oral history projects – identifying candidates, potential interview questions, gathering contact information, etc.
- Support other strategic planning and evaluation projects by conducting internet research, reviewing grants and updating data sets.
Required Qualifications, Skills and Abilities
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in a field related to the areas of responsibility – e.g. librarian or information science, comparative literature, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with a high level of accuracy.
- Must be adept using internet research and data management (Excel) software. Experience using Salesforce or optical character recognition (OCR) software is beneficial.
- Experience managing data, especially historical organizational records or academic research, is strongly preferred.
- Strong organizational skills and process orientation.
- Demonstrates professionalism, dedication and humility
- Ideal start date on or around May 20, 2025