The TEI Consortium seeks nominations for a TEI-C Communications Manager to be appointed by the Board of Directors as a non-voting member of the Board. Suggested start is Monday, November 2 with a minimum of 12 months. The term length is negotiable.
This person will report regularly to the Board in its monthly meetings, will administer the TEI’s website, which runs on WordPress, and will assist with archiving conference websites and other noteworthy content developed outside of the TEI’s web infrastructure, including content maintained in Google Drive and other third party systems. They will run the TEI-C’s social media accounts.
The Communications Manager will be responsible for managing the TEI’s email lists and the password management for the TEI-C’s MediaWiki.
This person will also be responsible for setting up electronic voting using OpaVote for the annual TEI-C Board and Council elections and the TAPAS Advisory Board elections.
The TEI-C web site is currently undergoing a redesign, restructuring the content and introducing multilingualism. The TEI-C Communication Manager will support this attempt, will maintain oversight of the structure of the website, and will support the TEI Board and Council in keeping the information up to date.
The time commitment will range between 2 and 5 hours per week, depending on the tasks at hand.
It is essential that the candidate:
• has experience or aptitude with command-line tools, mailing list administration, and similar technical skills
• has experience with social media
• has experience with WordPress administration
• is well-versed in HTML/CSS
• has strong communication skills
Experience with XML/TEI is advantageous but not required. The Board of Directors will offer financial support to attend the annual TEI conference for the person selected for the position, or to their employer in return for their time commitment.
The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium is committed to diversity and inclusion, and ensures equal opportunity to all qualified individuals. We invite applications from all including those with diverse needs, backgrounds, and abilities.
If you are interested in this position please send your application including a short CV and motivation statement to the Board of Directors (board@tei-c.org). Deadline for applications is Monday, September 28.