{"id":769,"date":"2008-11-07T19:09:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T15:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2008\/11\/07\/job-new-career-opportunity-at-storycorps-research-assistant-production-department\/"},"modified":"2008-11-07T19:09:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T15:09:32","slug":"job-new-career-opportunity-at-storycorps-research-assistant-production-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2008\/11\/07\/job-new-career-opportunity-at-storycorps-research-assistant-production-department\/","title":{"rendered":"JOB: New Career Opportunity at StoryCorps: Research Assistant, Production Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Research Assistant, Production Department<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Reports to Senior Producer<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Status: Part-time Regular<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; StoryCorps and its parent organization, Sound Portraits<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Productions, are looking for a part-time (25 hours per week)<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Research Assistant to work in their offices in Fort Greene,<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Brooklyn. StoryCorps (www.storycorps.net) is a widely acclaimed<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; national oral history project that celebrates our shared humanity<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; and collective identity. Created by the award-winning non-profit<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; documentary company Sound Portraits Productions<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; (www.soundportraits.org), StoryCorps is the largest oral history<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; project ever undertaken.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Working under the editorial guidance of the Senior Producer, the<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Research Assistant will be responsible for conducting research to<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; identify potential interview subjects nationwide. The Research<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Assistant will help build a nationwide network of contacts and<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; sources for locating interesting characters and great talkers.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; The Assistant may also take part in fact-checking stories produced<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; by StoryCorps, and may be called upon to locate and secure<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; additional media (audio, photos, etc.) to supplement broadcasts.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; The ideal Research Assistant thrives in a collaborative team<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; environment, is highly organized, detail-oriented, and<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; resourceful, and is a stickler for the facts. The position<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; requires excellent research skills, ability to multi-task and work<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; under a deadline, and a good nose for stories.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&gt; &gt;&gt; Research Assistant, Production Department &gt;&gt; Reports to Senior Producer &gt;&gt; Status: Part-time Regular &gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; StoryCorps and its parent organization, Sound Portraits &gt;&gt;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job","category-listserv","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}