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The HistoryMakers seeks to hire a full-time Video Oral History Processor as part of last year of an original three-year grant funded project(2017) in order to make The HistoryMakers, unique, digital video oral history archive accessible to users worldwide. Those hired must have a background in African American, American, women’s, political, social history; and be able to commit to a three year term working as part of a processing team that will process a total of 1700 interviews that average 3-6 hours in length. The person hired must have excellent writing skills. They must also have prior experience as a proofreader/editor and be an expert researcher and writer who can accurately describe in a concise and accurate manner the contents of each videotaped segment. The interviews cover 20th century history interviews across a wide variety of occupations, geographic areas and fields (i.e. STEM, law, art, education, music, etc.).