Producing, Travel and Logistics Coordinator

Job Description

Full-time Producing, Travel & Logistics Coordinator is a front facing position that requires great phone skills and great attention to detail. This position involves coordinating in person and Zoom meetings, conference calls with The HistoryMakers advisory boards and taking extensive notes as well as the scheduling of video production crews for video oral history interviews of African Americans across the country as well as regional receptions. This position is responsible for scheduling  approximately twenty (20) interviews with potential HistoryMakers every other week or forty (40) interviews per month and involves weekend availability during execution of the trips. Each video production crew is comprised of a videographer and oral historian.  Candidates must have prior experience scheduling video production crews and possess strong multi-tasking, administrative, organizational, phone and database management skills.  

Job Requirements

DESIRED SKILLS

• 1-3 years of customer service, video production, or travel agency experience.
• Type 65+ words per minute
• Professional voice and phone presence.
• Strong administrative and the project management skills and the ability to multi-task and take detailed and accurate minutes
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Office Suite (Microsoft Word, Access, Excel, Power Point)
• Event planning experience. 
• Knowledge and experience with FileMaker Pro
• Excellent file and desktop management skills
• Prior experience with a start up a plus and the desire to work in a non-profit environment mandatory

Salary Range: $60,000.00 -$80,000.00 per year
 
The HistoryMakers 
 
The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive(www.thehistorymakers.org), is a one-of-a-kind collection, housed permanently at the Library of Congress. Its website (www.thehistorymakers.org), accessed by millions worldwide, is sited in Wikipedia and used as a “go to” reference tool. Its digital archive(https://da.thehistorymakers.org) has been licensed by colleges, universities, K-12 schools and public libraries for use by faculty, students and patrons and is growing in popularity in the wake of COVID19 and the focus on online learning. Within the next few years, The HistoryMakers will become the digital repository for the Black experience: providing much needed content, role models, success pathways and frameworks for a 21st century citizenry that has become increasingly less tolerant, divisive and economically and educationally disparate.  
 
 
Please send resumes to:
The HistoryMakers
1900 S. Michigan Ave. | Chicago, IL 60616
info@thehistorymakers.org

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