Description:
PCASC, a Portland-based international-solidarity organization founded in 1979, is currently embarking on a project to document and learn from our storied history. The project will work over 9 months in 2011 to build an organizational history, including archiving relevant documents and materials, designing a creative useful web presence to illustrate the history of the organization’s campaigns and activities, and providing an accessible resource to the community. The Digital Media Archivist Intern will be one member of a larger history project team with the specific purpose of digitizing, organizing, and preparing current PCASC media history for web access.
The project is overseen by one Project Coordinator and one PCASC Board member with input from the PCASC Director. This internship is an opportunity to learn moving image cataloging, digitizing of old formats, and creating accessible websites for media resources.
Digital Media Interns will work on all aspects of film and media archive development: collaborative cataloging, digitizing media, web development, transcription, and physical organizing the current collections of materials.
Interns will be working with both edited and unedited, often unpublished, media in a dynamic social justice environment with documentary or nonfiction materials.
Responsibilities:
* Digitizing media such as photographs, VHS/BETA tapes, cassette tapes, floppy disks, reel-to-reel footage, and others;
* Editing media;
* Creating a digital media archive for the organization, both internal and web accessible;
* Utilizing an inventory tool to document media;
* Preserving old format media;
* Transcribing footage;
* Researching the collection.
Qualifications:
* Experience or skills in video production or digital media;
* Passion for preserving historical media and visual mediums;
* Interest in people’s history and human rights advocacy;
* Background in moving image archives, library science, archival studies, human rights, Latin American studies, or media production;
* Excellent organization, communication and team work skills;
* Student with access to on-campus media labs preferred;
* Experience with Web Development or Flash preferred;
* Fluency in Spanish preferred.
Requirements:
Hours: a minimum of 8-10 hours per week, over a minimum of 3 months.
Experience: We do not expect interns to have the same skills as paid staff; however, you must have some level of technical understanding of digital equipment in order to be successful in this position. We will not consider people with no experience with manipulating digital media.
Meetings: Monthly Team Meeting, 2 hours in our E Burnside office.
Compensation: Unpaid position but will accept inquiries for academic credit.
Start Date: Position open until filled, but we will do a 1st round of interviews the week of March 28th.
How to Apply: Please email a 1-page letter of interest explaining your experience with digital media or historical archiving and a brief resume to craig@pcasc.net
