Archivist and Historian - Research Analyst III

United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM); Florida; Presencial; USD 80 000 - 110 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

The Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) in Florida seeks a Historian/Archivist to preserve, organize, document, digitize, and maintain the historical records of OCB, including Radio Martí, TV Martí, and related digital content. The role supports the archival database, ensures accurate descriptions, metadata, and accessibility for institutional purposes.

The position requires collaboration with leadership and staff to verify information, organize project folders, and apply archival standards.

Qualificações

• Fluency in English required; experience working across cultures is a plus.
• Proven ability to conduct research and present findings concisely to non-research audiences.
• Experience with archival research and records management is preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Research and document historically significant OCB content across radio and TV Martí.
• Maintain and update archival database with accurate metadata and descriptions.
• Review digitization work for consistency with archival standards and descriptions.
• Maintain revision logs for database entries and ensure version control.
• Assist in organizing, archiving, and digitizing content from Agency repositories.
• Develop descriptions, inventories, and tags to aid retrieval of historical materials.
• Coordinate with leadership and staff to verify information and ensure completeness of archival records.
• Identify significant broadcasts and milestones for inclusion in the archive.

Conhecimentos

Fluency in English

Independent worker

Cross-cultural context

Strong written/verbal communication

Statistical research methods

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Ferramentas

SPSS

R

Stata

Python

Microsoft Office

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Job Details

Job Location: Office of Cuba Broadcasting - Doral, FL 33166

Position Summary

The OCB Historian/Archivist is responsible for helping preserve, organize, document, digitize, and maintain the historical record of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, including Radio Martí, TV Martí, and related digital and multimedia content. The position supports the development and maintenance of OCB’s historical archive and archival database and ensures that historically significant materials are accurately described, cataloged, preserved, and accessible for institutional and Agency purposes.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Research, identify, organize, and document historically significant OCB content, including Radio Martí and TV Martí programs, recordings, photographs, documents, digital materials, media brands, and other legacy content.
• Maintain and update OCB’s historical archival database, ensuring that dates, program titles, names, descriptions, metadata, and content tags are accurate and consistent.
• Review digitization and cataloging work performed by contractors or vendors to ensure that deliverables accurately reflect archival records, established descriptions, metadata requirements, and applicable archival standards.
• Maintain logs documenting revisions to archival database entries to ensure accuracy, accountability, and complete version control.
• Assist in organizing, maintaining, archiving, and digitizing historical OCB content, including files, recordings, documents, and legacy media obtained from approved Agency repositories such as e-mail, Dropbox, SharePoint, and shared drives.
• Organize and maintain archival and digitization project folders; apply consistent file‑naming conventions, organize digital assets, and upload materials to designated shared repositories.
• Develop and maintain descriptions, inventories, tags, and other identifying information necessary to facilitate the retrieval and management of historical OCB materials.
• Coordinate with OCB leadership, staff, subject‑matter experts, and other stakeholders to verify historical information and ensure the accuracy and completeness of archival records.
• Identify historically significant Radio Martí and TV Martí broadcasts, programs, events, personalities, and institutional milestones for preservation and inclusion in OCB’s historical archive.
• Prepare general descriptions and historical summaries of significant Radio Martí, TV Martí, and OCB content for use in Agency external communications, institutional history, commemorative materials, and outreach products, consistent with applicable National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements and Agency policies.
• Assist in preserving OCB institutional memory by identifying records and audiovisual materials of enduring historical significance and supporting their proper organization, digitization, and long‑term preservation.
• Perform other historical research, archival, digitization, and records‑management duties necessary to support OCB and Agency requirements.

Qualifications

• More than 10 years of relevant professional experience
• Proficiency with SPSS, R, Stata, Python, or some other statistical software
• Research Analyst, I-III
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• An understanding—if not direct experience—of research, particularly, in different countries and with people of different cultures.
• Ability to work independently, but also with other specialists with expertise in media strategy, media development, and media effects, to deliver insights into the agency’s performance
• Knowledge of marketing, media development, media effects, or mass communication is a plus
• Experience living or working outside the United States, either through academic or professional experiences, is a plus
• Fluency in English is required; fluency in a major USAGM broadcast language (Russian, Spanish, French, Arabic, Mandarin) is a plus
• Experience conducting marketing research to understand people’s opinions, preferences, and behaviors
• Experience working with statistical analysis software packages such as SPSS, R, Python
• Experience drafting market or audience analysis reports with guidance from other team members
• Experience writing and communicating about research results and analyses in accurate, concise, and in a way that is easily understood by non-research audiences
• Experience conducting descriptive and inferential statistical analyses, including but not limited to ttests, regression, and cluster analyses
• Experience validating, cleaning, and merging datasets
• Experience designing surveys, particularly administered to foreign populations
• Experience with survey management software such as SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics, or other is a plus
• Knowledge of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative research methods and techniques and a demonstrated record of accomplishment of a continuously growing skill set
• Candidate will be asked to work with a small dataset to create a short data memo (2-3 page) in order to demonstrate their skill‑level
• Candidate will be asked to create a sample research design based on a hypothetical research question