Digital History and Engagement Associate

Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation • Medora, ND

5d • $52,000 - $65,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Digital History and Engagement Associate supports the creation, delivery, and ongoing refinement of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library’s digital learning and public history content. This role develops curriculum-aligned educational materials, contributes to the Library’s digital storytelling, and helps ensure that everything published online is historically accurate, engaging, and accessible to a wide range of learners. Working closely with the Education and Communications teams, this position helps build virtual programs, maintain editorial workflows, and support teachers and audiences across North Dakota and the country. This is a strong fit for someone with a background in history or education who enjoys research, content creation, and digital engagement. The position reports to the Manager of Public Programs and Education.

Requirements

• Strong research and writing skills with the ability to translate history into accessible educational content
• Attention to historical accuracy, interpretive clarity, and pedagogical quality
• Familiarity with curriculum development or museum education practices
• Comfort with digital content creation and online learning tools
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects
• Clear communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Awareness of public history trends and digital engagement practices
• Experience in history, public history, education, museum work, curriculum development, or digital learning
• Bachelor’s degree in history, education, museum studies, public history, or a related field
• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods; must be able to move throughout the facility and visitor areas.
• Ability to lift up to 15 pounds and assist with all guest service tasks.
• Flexibility to work weekends, holidays, and occasional evenings.
• This is a full-time, exempt position, working onsite at TRPL, located in Medora, ND.
• Must reside within a reasonable distance of Medora, ND (within 60 miles or less than a one-hour drive).

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain curriculum-aligned online educational resources, including lesson plans, resource guides, and ready-to-use classroom videos for teachers locally and nationally.
• Serve as a historical resource for the Education department, ensuring digital and on-site materials are accurate, consistent, and educationally sound.
• Work with Education staff to create, curate, and facilitate a synchronous digital learning experiences such as virtual field trips, interactive modules, and other self-paced learning tools.
• Assisting designing and supporting synchronous virtual programs including webinars, Q&As, and teacher workshops.
• Help evaluate and refine digital programming to improve engagement, retention, and educational effectiveness.
• Contribute to the public history editorial direction on the TRPL website, supporting encyclopedia entries, collections blog content, and virtual public history events.
• Research and benchmark other presidential libraries, museums, and educational organizations to inform best practices and support partnered programming.
• Monitor public history and digital trends, maintain editorial calendars, and support the development of innovative cross-platform content strategies.
• Collaborate with the Communications team to ensure historical accuracy across social media and public-facing content, occasionally contributing posts or interpretive features.
• Assisting, organizing and maintaining digital content workflows, ensuring materials and programs are well-planned, clearly scoped, and delivered on schedule.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Full benefits include 403(b), medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, as well as 20 days of paid time off and 10 days of holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level