Vacancy: BBK Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies seeks a Postgraduate Intern Deadline 5th October 2018
Vacancy: Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies:
Postgraduate Intern
Deadline Extended to 5th October 2018
The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies seeks a Postgraduate Intern
The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies invites applications from postgraduate research students studying at Birkbeck for an Internship to support and develop the activities of the Centre:
The Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
The Centre was first established in 1997 under the directorship of Professor Isobel Armstrong originally to bring together researchers in English, History of Art and History. It has since developed a reputation for its diverse events that attract national and international scholars. It hosts the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies, which sees speakers coming to Birkbeck throughout the year; it runs the successful annual Dickens Day; and organizes and hosts major conferences, workshops and symposia. The Centre also supports Postgraduate students wishing to organise and run their own events.
THE POSITION
- This Events Officer internship for the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies trains a student to develop, advertise, run, archive and curate a programme of public events:
PLANNING:
- Collect and generate ideas about speakers, emerging questions, and formats for events (Nineteenth-Century Forum, workshops, day conferences, etc);
IMPLEMENTING:
- Timetabling and scheduling, including liaising with Centre staff and speakers
- AV/IT: identifying speakers’ needs, liaising with relevant school AV/IT staff, booking and setting up IT
- Helping setting up speaker events in the Keynes Library and ensuring that it is returned to its original seating after the talk;
- helping to organise refreshments where appropriate;
- administering speaker expenses.
CENTRE’S WEBSITE:
- Overseeing and updating the website on a weekly basis; ensuring that all events are listed with appropriate links and any other relevant material;
- team-working skills: coordinating website updates with the editorial interns on the online journal 19 to ensure that the Centre and Journal websites support reach
- developing a dedicated PG /postdoc area of the website to showcase/advertise p/g activities(entering student’s activities in the website, such as the 19th reading group, conferences, blogs, etc.).
- Producing, archiving, and curating materials related to events and research activities
NETWORKS/PUBLICITY:
- Developing and overseeing strategies for the Centre’s profile on social networks (twitter, Facebook, etc);
- Producing, coordinating, and editing the Centre’s Blog, including commissioning and overseeing blog submissions, and liaising with relevant staff.
- Networking and linking researchers at different stages in their career
- Fostering and coordinating links between staff and the postgraduate community within the centre and its research clusters
- Developing a publicity strategy (sending information of Centre’s activities to other nineteenth-century websites; identifying and contacting other communities of practitioners to enhance interdisciplinary reach of the Centre’s activities).
INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS:
- Centre meetings – Attend and take minutes at termly Centre meetings; liaise with Centre Director/s about minutes/actions.
ELIGIBILITY:
- We invite applications from postgraduate research students from across the College with interests in the nineteenth century. Applicants should expect to be enrolled as students at Birkbeck until end of September 2019
SELECTION CRITERIA
Essential
- Research interests in Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Organizational and clerical skills
- Independence and initiative
Desirable but NOT essential
- organization of research activities such as Reading Groups, Seminars or Conferences
- Involvement in the activities of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Social media skills
REMUNERATION:
£16 per hour. The hours will be agreed on a flexible basis with the Centre Directors (spread across three terms to work out at an average of 3.5 hours per week for 35 weeks)
APPLICATION:
Please email a letter of application, outlining your reasons for applying for the post, and a CV, together with the name of your supervisor, from whom we will require a reference, to Dr Victoria Mills (v.mills@bbk.ac.uk) in the School of Arts by 5.00pm on Friday 5th October 2018
Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed shortly thereafter (date tbc but likely to be Tuesday 9 October)
Please direct any enquiries to Dr Victoria Mills (v.mills@bbk.ac.uk).