Web Designer and Digital Humanities Editor: Department of History - UTK

The Web Designer and Digital Humanities Editor position is fully grant funded for four years, running from January 1, 2027, through December 31, 2030. The Designer and Editor will collaborate with other PAJ staff to build, sustain, and expand the project’s digital humanities initiatives. Key responsibilities include designing, updating, and maintaining the project’s website; enhancing the website according to best practices for user experience, optimized search, current web accessibility standards, and responsive design principles; developing information architecture to ensure logical content layout, organization, and presentation; monitoring the security and usability of the website; and generating original online content. Other responsibilities include digitizing microfilm and images of original documents, as well as making, checking, and formatting document transcriptions; assisting other PAJ staff with original historical research; and mentoring undergraduate and graduate assistants.

• Designing, updating, and maintaining the project’s website
• Enhancing the website according to best practices for user experience, optimized search, current web accessibility standards, and responsive design principles
• Developing information architecture to ensure logical content layout, organization, and presentation
• Monitoring the security and usability of the website
• Generating original online content
• Digitizing microfilm and images of original documents
• Making, checking, and formatting document transcriptions
• Assisting other PAJ staff with original historical research; and mentoring undergraduate and graduate assistants.

Required Qualifications

• Education : Bachelor’s degree
• Experience :
• Demonstrated experience in web design, including coding, website maintenance, image editing.
• Demonstrated experience in historical research using databases and online search tools.
• Relevant experience may be gained through coursework, internships, freelance or volunteer work, or professional employment.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Historical: knowledge of basic US history, 1789-1848, ideally with some knowledge of politics and US-Indian relations; ability to read and accurately transcribe 19th century handwriting; ability to find and use archival finding aids
• Technical: knowledge of and ability to do TEI coding and to use Wordpress and Omeka; ability to code; detailed knowledge of website design; good skills with image editing

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without need now or in the future for sponsorship for employment-based visa status.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience:
• Experience working with a team on a digital humanities project is preferred.
• Experience with archival research is also preferred, including identifying, requesting, reading, filming, and transcribing 19th-century manuscripts
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: detailed knowledge of 19th-centry US history is a plus

Work Location

• Location: Knoxville, TN
• Onsite

Compensation and Benefits

• UT market range : MR09
• Anticipated hiring range: $60,000 - $70,000
• Find more information on the UT Market Range structure here
• Find more information on UT Benefits here

Application Instructions

To express interest, please submit an application with the noted below attachments

• Resume
• Letter of interest that outlines qualifications for position

To be assured of full consideration, completed applications with all requested materials should be submitted on or before September 10, 2026.

About The Department

A long-running and highly regarded project, the Jackson Papers seeks to make widely available the full written record of the seventh U.S. president. Current project staff hold faculty appointments in the UT Department of History and are fully engaged in the intellectual life of the campus and community. Our project office and University library offer rich materials for research, including government records, microfilmed manuscript collections, and major electronic databases.