Digital Curator and Processor of the Afkhami Collection

(July 28, 2025)

Position Title - Digital Curator and Processor of the Afkhami Collection

Supervisor Title (All entry and mid-level position supervisors should be qualified, professional archivists.) - Head of Archival Processing

Position Type - Full-time, term

Benefits -Yes

Salary Range - $76,000 - $85,000

As the Minister for Women Affairs in Iran’s pre-revolutionary government, Mahnaz Afkhami led some of the most progressive reforms for women’s advancement anywhere in the world. Later in exile after the Islamic Revolution, she founded the Women’s Learning Partnership, among other leading organizations, working with changemakers in the Global South to raise the status of women. The Afkhami Collection contains more than 150 cubic feet of manuscript materials and 6,250 published works on Iran’s past and present. The majority of these materials are in Farsi or a mix of Farsi and English.

The Digital Curator and Processor of the Afkhami Collection is a full-time one-year term position (with the possibility of renewal). The Digital Curator and Processor is responsible for the arrangement and description of the manuscript holdings of Mahnaz Afkhami and her late husband, Dr. Golam Reza Afkhami, as well as the archives of the Foundation for Iranian Studies. This position will also work closely with the donor to select and describe analog content for digitization. The digital curator will describe digitized and born-digital content that will be posted on a future website or an online exhibition. The Afkhami Collection is located within the Booth Family Center for Special Collections at the Georgetown University Library. Reporting to the Head of Archival Processing, the Digital Curator and Processor will:

Initiate the arranging and describing of the manuscript holdings.

Assist in producing a DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard)-compliant finding aid, making it publicly available online via ArchivesSpace.

Assist in identifying materials to be digitized and curating born-digital content that will be posted on the Library’s digital platforms–including DigitalGeorgetown, the Library website, an online exhibition, and on other platforms for potential use in digital humanities projects.

To apply: Please go to https://georgetown.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Georgetown_Admin_Careers/job/Main-Campus/Digital-Curator-and-Processor-of-the-Afkhami-Collection_JR22769