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[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) invites applications for a “Digital Media and Customer Service Specialist.” The job will be a full-time, in-office, hourly position.The successful candidate will have a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) and should have experience using WordPress, Facebook, and Twitter as outreach and engagement tools. Applicants should also have experience and demonstrated competency with Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, and Microsoft Excel. Excellent communications skills (both oral and written) and the ability to respond to service issues via e-mail and telephone are essential. Experience with the following is strongly preferred: using HTML in website design; creating analytics reports; and using CRM database software.
Review of applications will begin June 11, 2013 and continue until the position is filled. The start date is negotiable. Interested persons should apply by sending an e-mail with the following items to Kevin Cooney (ASOR’s Director of Publication and Membership Services; publications@asor.org): a letter of interest that addresses the job responsibilities listed below; a resume; and a list of three references.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Responsible for executing the organization’s digital media strategy and providing excellent customer service to members, subscribers, and donors.
- Maintain the organization’s Facebook page, Twitter account, and blog under the auspices of the Friends of ASOR program.
- Communicate with potential contributors to solicit scholarly content for the blog.
- Works with staff to create promotional material for recruitment and retention efforts.
- Act as part of a team responding to customer inquiries and service issues while stewarding members, subscribers, and donors.
- Serve as point person for all Friends of ASOR initiatives.
Digital Media Tasks Include the Following:
- Solicit, organize, edit, schedule, and post pieces to organization’s blog using WordPress.
- Coordinate with editors of organization’s e-magazine and e-newsletter to schedule, edit, and post pieces to organization’s blog and Facebook page.
- Gather, schedule, and post current news items related to archaeology daily to Facebook.
- Moderate and respond to comments on the organization’s Facebook page, Twitter, and blog.
- Cultivate relationships with other like-minded organizations for cross promotions on Facebook and blog.
- Create detailed monthly and quarterly analytics reports for organization’s blog, Facebook page, and website.
- Create, monitor, and report on campaigns using Google AdWords, and Facebook to promote blog posts, publications, fundraising efforts, and special events.
- Research and cultivate potential advertisers for organization’s blog, and monitor ongoing Google AdSense campaign.
- Work with ASOR staff on production process for webinars.
Promotional Material Tasks Include the Following:
- Design and create print and electronic advertising material (web ads, print brochures and flyers) for organization’s social media.
- Design and create print and electronic advertising material (web ads, print brochures and flyers) for organization’s print publications and events (three journals, three book series, annual meeting, and other smaller meetings).
- Design and create print and electronic advertising material (web ads, print brochures and flyers) for recruitment and retention of members, subscribers, donors, and Friends of ASOR.
Customer Service Tasks Include the Following:
- Process credit card and check payments from members, subscribers and donors.
- Maintain accurate member, subscriber, and donor information in database.
- Participate in direct mail and email appeals.
- Fulfill subscriber and member publication claims.
- Steward new members through email and direct mail.
- Provide excellent customer service to members and subscribers via email and phone.
- Train and oversee (under direction of Director of Publications) undergraduate volunteers and work-study students.
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but our core functionality has continued throughout. For several months, the library was closed for renovations as part of a larger Library Expansion Project. During this time, we converted the lobby of CAARI into a library reading room. It was not ideal, but the entire Cyprus collection of books, nearly all of the journals and the usual number of desks were still available. Our current Fulbright Fellows, Dr. Young Kim from Calvin College studying the ‘heretic-hunter’ St. Epiphanius, and Ms. Catherine Kearns, PhD student at Cornell University studying Iron Age environmental and landscape archaeology, have been fixtures at CAARI throughout all of these changes. Their patience with the building works and occasional disruptions has been admirable.
and the presence of contractors to revitalize the upstairs residence too. Every upstairs room has had a new lick of paint, the wooden floors have been refinished, the toilets and showers replaced, the kitchen refurbished and a new balcony roof is on the way. I am confident residents will appreciate the freshness of the living space, which will make living and working at CAARI a thoroughly productive and enjoyable experience.
The conference had a lovely spirit, with attendees and presenters giving an honest account of historiography, biography and the archaeological legacy of Stewart. The conference was opened by Dr. Robert Merrillees, former CAARI Director, retired Australian diplomat, and one of Stewart’s own former students. Dr. Merrillees keynote lecture also inaugurated the renovated library and was followed by a display of historical and ethnographic items that were bequeathed to CAARI by Eve Stewart. Several fine receptions were generously sponsored by Dr. Merrillees, CAARI Trustee Maria Kyriacou and His Excellency, Australian High Commissioner Mr. Trevor Peacock and his wife Pattie. The conference itself received support from Beta Analytic, ISD Distributor of Scholarly Books and several local businesses. Presenters came from far and wide, including the Australia, Cyprus, Israel, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States and Sweden, and the audience filled the new library to capacity. The presentations were of the highest quality and the co-Organizers, CAARI Trustee Prof. Bernard Knapp, Dr. Jenny Webb from La Trobe University and I, intend to publish the proceedings as the next volume in the CAARI monograph series.
Mavromichalou. Taking up the position in February, Katerina was in charge of putting the library back together in time for the conference. An archaeology graduate from the University of Cyprus and the University of Southampton in the UK, her energy and knowledge of archaeology and libraries has already been a great asset to CAARI. Users of the library will be welcomed by Katerina as the new face of the library after Ms. Evi Karyda’s depature last year to pursue her PhD.
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1) Archaeological institutions have an interest in finding non-professional photographs of their excavations. By finding ‘new’ photographic material, the existing documentation of the excavation will be extended and enhanced and will provide an image of aspects of an excavation which are not included in the published documentation. In addition, as has been demonstrated by the Leo Boer Archive, this genre of photographs may provide the institutions with additional scientific data which may be useful for the archaeological research relating to the specific site(s). Furthermore, by comparing the non-professional photographs with the official documentation made by the former staff, it is possible to get a notion of the practiced documentation policy at that site. Pictures of particular features or phases of the excavation taken by non-professionals and which are not present in the official documentation, reveal the decisions taken by the staff at the time of what to record and what to leave out. In this way, comparing the two categories of recording offers institutions insight into the development of this area of the archaeological discipline.
3) Archaeological institutions benefit by joining the NPAPH Project. Participation in the NPAPH Project is valuable to institions, even if they manage their own digital archives, host them on their institutional server, and place them on their websites. The NPAPH Project is one central portal (