We’ve got a 10 hrs/week, $22/hr role supporting digitization of oral histories at the Eastside Cultural Center, working directly with neighborhood storytellers to preserve family collections. Where have you posted to find mission-aligned candidates — local boards, libraries, community colleges, or something I’m missing to reach people rooted in the community?
I filled a similar part-time archive slot by emailing @OaklandPublicLibrary branch managers and getting a 3‑sentence blurb into their newsletters; asking them to forward it to their ‘volunteer leads’ list surfaced neighbors already doing family history work. If the newsletter route’s slow, ask the reference desk to pin a half‑page flyer with a QR near the scanners so staff can point people to it.
Local boards are great, but I’d add Bay Area Archivists’ job board (https://www.sfarchivists.org/jobs) and the UC Berkeley iSchool/SAA student lists — mission fit is high and they’ll forward to classmates; I can intro you to the Laney College Library Tech coordinator to push it to nearby students.
And quick win: ask Eastside storytellers to nominate someone and share a short “10 hrs/week, $22/hr” blurb with local genealogy groups — AAGSNC (https://www.aagsnc.org/) routinely surfaces community‑rooted folks. If that stalls, host a 30‑min info session at the center and record a clip you can circulate.
And i’ve had luck filling a part-time archive role by tabling outside Eastside Cultural Center during an event, with a one-page flyer and a QR code to apply; chatting with “neighborhood storytellers” surfaced referrals on the spot. It’s slower than online boards, but you’ll meet people already rooted in the space — would you be up for doing a short table at the next open mic there?
Quick thing that’s worked for me: email a 150-word blurb to the Bay Area Archivists listserv (they move jobs fast: https://www.bayarearchivists.org/), but add a line like ‘no prior archival experience needed; community ties preferred’ so you don’t only get MLIS folks. Want a sample blurb I’ve used?
I’d go directly to Laney’s Ethnic Studies/Media and the Umoja/Puente cohorts; ask instructors to share a 100-word blurb that spotlights the “family collections” piece and that it’s 10 hrs/week at $22, since that fits class schedules. , online boards miss folks who aren’t on listservs, so also drop flyers at barbershops, churches, and laundromats within a few blocks of Eastside Cultural Center. If you need a wider net, one post on Idealist tends to pull mission‑aligned folks fast: https://www.idealist.org — want an intro at Laney?
Quick plug for the East Bay Yesterday crowd — ask them to share this in their newsletter/FB group so you’re reaching folks already preserving neighborhood stories (https://eastbayyesterday.com/). If that nets too many general history buffs, post a QR-code flyer at EastSide Arts Alliance events and nearby laundromats — think porch conversations, not job boards.