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Social Media Specialist • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian) • February 18, 2022
The job looks like it’s mostly about editing:
Designing engagement initiatives, outreach campaigns, and activities that support the Museum’s mission and educational goals including broadening access to collections, building relationships with audiences, and providing personally meaningful visitor experiences.
Overseeing content submission requests, changes, updates, and post removals; Copy edits for site style, the museum’s voice, accuracy, and grammar. The incumbent monitors, listens, and responds to audiences.
Editing and publishing content that builds meaningful connections and encourages engagement with the museum collections, exhibitions, programming, educational content, web content, and other museum themes and concerns.
Preparing regular reports analyzing conversation trends, compiling and synthesizing inquiries and complaints and submitting them to the supervisor.
You can qualify with graduate study, but you should demonstrate how that graduate study gives you some social media expertise. They want to know you’re comfortable:
managing multiple social media platforms and applications for a museum, blog, educational or cultural institution; participating in the development of social media content, customer service, partnerships and strategies; and using digital platforms and real-time live video platforms like Snapchat, Instagram Stories and Facebook Live in a professional role.
The KSAs are wordy and include things like stakeholder management and research. Here are the questions.
Supervisory Historian • National Portrait Gallery • February 22, 2022
Okay! You have to be a historian who has published stuff and supervised other people! And then, if that is you, you can do it at the National Portrait Gallery! Which is awesome!!
Leads all historical research and interpretation; monitors the historical accuracy of the work produced by the History Department.
As a professional scholar, authors articles and books; responds to letters of inquiry on historical topics from the public, researchers, and scholars.
Oversees the evolution of America’s Presidents; develops special temporary exhibitions on American history, art, and biography; selects artworks to create educational and visually stimulating exhibitions.
You could also qualify with graduate studies in the humanities, if it’s relevant. The experience is really key:
You qualify for this position if you have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-14 level in the Federal Service or comparable pay band system. For this position Specialized experience is defined as demonstrating research using contemporary methodologies of historical analysis drawn from multiple sources; publishing outside peer-reviewed scholarly research; and leading a team of historians and researchers at a museum, library, archive, or university.
The questionnaire has just two questions. Tell them I sent you.
Social Media Specialist • National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian) • February 22, 2022
The incumbent is primarily responsible for developing, implementing, and analyzing social media in support of museum content, educational programs, audience engagement and development goals.
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Executes social media strategy through competitive research, social analytics, platform determination, benchmarking, and audience identification to insure consistency and quality of content across all social media platforms.
Manages social media sites, plans and executes ongoing and onetime social media campaigns, and plays a major role in engaging and educating online and live audiences. The incumbent researches, writes, curates content, and posts text, photographs/images, videos, links, curricula, resources, and other data. . . .
They want someone who has already spent a year doing this exact job, including in a Native American history or cultural context - or someone who has a PhD that got them the relevant social media skills and historical and cultural bona fides. So, look at the KSAs:
Skill in analyzing and monitoring social media statistics and information in order to evaluate the effectiveness of an organization's social media outreach strategy.
Ability to manage an organization's social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.
Ability to plan, implement and analyze an organization's social media campaigns to identify, build and educate audiences and develop relationships.
Knowledge of Native American and Indigenous history and culture of the Western Hemisphere to research, plan and support online and live programming about identity, race and social justice.
The questionnaire speaks to the KSAs some more.
Public Affairs Specialist (Diversity Outreach Specialist) • Library of Congress • February 22, 2022
Okay, here’s a bit of a weird one: DEI outreach for the copyright office. Do you have a research project on communities that are not being served in the “copyright ecosystem?” And a plan to reach out to them? Good for you. Tell the Library of Congress about it.
Ability to communicate in writing.
Ability to develop and maintain communications plans for underrepresented groups.**
Ability to develop and maintain relationships, interact collaboratively, and convey information through briefings, consultations, and other presentations.**
Knowledge of current state-of-the-art communications strategies.
Ability to communicate effectively other than in writing.
Education Program Specialist • Office of English Language Acquisition (Education) • February 24, 2022 OR 100 applicants
As always, recall that these positions fill up before the deadline. So it makes good sense to create a saved search for them! That way, you can prep a résumé for these skillsets and apply quickly.
Also as always, the position is significantly grant administration. You can qualify with two out of three:
1. Experience interpreting policy related to the needs of English learners, assess and apply regulations as necessary to advance student with limited English proficiency.
2. Experience assisting in the research and development of data concerning English learners. Presents findings to senior staff via presentations, and as necessary participates in conferences and workshops to provide technical assistance.
3. Experience assisting staff in the grant or project monitoring process via on-site and/or virtual review.
Or through graduate education . . . or one full academic year of teaching responsibility. If that’s how you’re applying, you should make sure the résumé shows how you have the required skills, etc. from education/teaching. Here are the KSAs:
1. Knowledge of professional education principles and techniques used in the evaluation of proposals and projects for improved education.
2. Ability to independently resolve problems by application of precedents or established methods and practices
3. Skill in conducting and reporting purposeful evaluation and monitoring of program activities via on-site and/or virtual techniques.
And here are the questions. They are experience-specific.
Foreign Language Teacher - Russian (Assistant Professor) • U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (Army) • March 3, 2022
Teach Russian! Over the internet! Note that the materials include a 300 word essay in Russian. It must be handwritten. So must the English translation of the essay.
There are other things they’re looking for. This job has a real questionnaire.
Digital Media Specialist • Air Education Training and Command (Air Force) • March 7, 2022
This is a part-time, benefits-eligible position in the marketing department.
Responsible for creating, editing, publishing, administering, and removing website, app, and social media content.
Uses social media opportunities such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and various social media tools to advertise 42 FSS activities and events and provides weekly status reports.
Updates media on a daily basis to include accurate event information, answering customer inquiries and representing 42 FSS in a professional manner.
Writer/Editor of all print media including content for magazine, weekly newsletter. Assists graphic designer in creating artwork for the activities monthly programs and events and distributes promotional material throughout the base. . . .
The only qualifying route is through skills, and the position is only going to be for specific people, so I won’t excerpt them here.