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VACANCY: HistoryLab+ Diversity Officer, Membership Officer, and Regional Ambassador

Diversity Officer

This role involves the following tasks and responsibilities:

  • Help event organisers with publicity materials, to ensure that all relevant access information is included
  • Liaise with event organisers, the Institute of Historical Research, and/or other hosting institutions to ensure that participants’ access needs are met
  • Work with all Communications Officers and the Institute of Historical Research to adjust the information available on or wording of registration pages in order to make registrants more open to sharing access information
  • Responsibility for how / long relevant information is stored
  • Attend each committee meeting (tri-annual, online) and the AGM (online)
  • Submit a report to each meeting

Membership Officer

This role involves the following tasks and responsibilities:

  • Be the main point of contact for new members
  • Work with Regional Ambassadors to increase membership
  • Work with event organisers to encourage speakers and attendees to join History Lab+
  • Work with Communications Officers (COs) to add our sign-up survey to the History Lab+ website and to develop mechanisms by which members can update their details 
  • Maintain and update the membership database and national mailing list
  • Ensure that History Lab+ is compliant with the law and the Institute of Historical Research’s privacy policies 
  • Submit a report to each committee meeting (committee meetings are roughly tri-annual)
  • Attend each committee meeting.

Regional Ambassadors

Regional Ambassadors are sought for East Anglia, Midlands, North-East England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South-West England, and Wales, but the committee is open to establishing Regional Ambassadors for any UK region, as defined by you.

This role involves the following tasks and responsibilities:

  • Work with Membership Officer to increase membership of HistoryLab+ (e.g. by establishing lines of communication with Humanities departments / university careers services in your region)
  • Support the organisation of any events taking place in person in your region
  • Attend each committee meeting (tri-annual, online) and the AGM (online)
  • Submit a report to each meeting

To apply for these roles, please write to the Co-Chairs, Mike Reeve and Alex Riggs, at historylabplus.ihr@gmail.com with up to 500 words reflecting on the experiences and skills that make you right for the relevant position. You are also most welcome to get in touch with Mike or Alex if you have any questions at all about a role or the application process.

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