The Center for Digital and Public Humanities with the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC) seeks to hire two full-time Assistant Project Managers to support the Kansas City Monuments Coalition (KCMC) project between January 2025 to December 2027.

The Kansas City Monuments Coalition (KCMC) is a community-driven initiative supported by the Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project. This collaborative effort brings together community partners, public historians, scholars, and artists to share and promote a more inclusive history of Kansas City. This three-year initiative provides funding for the Coalition’s partners to support their varied projects. These projects include constructing new monuments, developing websites, digitizing materials, producing exhibits, designing interpretive signage, collecting oral histories, and creating digital tours.

The Assistant Project Manager will collaborate closely with the KCMC team to coordinate skills workshops, speaker events, and two public symposia. They will also contribute to UMKC’s internal initiatives by conducting and processing oral histories, researching and writing historical essays for the Kansas City Public Library’s KC Civil Rights website, and developing text for interpretive signage and digital tours focused on UMKC and Kansas City history. Additionally, the Assistant Project Manager will assist coalition partners with their projects as needed.

This is a full-time position with a competitive salary and benefits package, including comprehensive health coverage, flexible paid time off, and employee matched retirement contributions. Preferred qualifications include an MA degree or higher in a humanities field with experience in digital and public humanities projects.

More information about this position can be found on UMKC’s recruitment portal. Any additional questions can be sent to Diane Mutti Burke at [email protected] and Michael Sprague at [email protected].

Applications should be made directly through the link above and must include a cover letter, CV, and a list of three professional references. Additionally, applicants must either provide a writing sample or examples of any public or digital humanities projects they have been directly involved in creating.