James Madison’s Montpelier

Orange, Virginia

Research Database Assistant

Montpelier is seeking a student to assist with data entry and research file organization in the Curatorial Department of the restored home of America’s fourth President.

The position requires a commitment of 4 to 8 hours a week during regular business hours at Montpelier between October and the end of the fall semester.  The position may be extended into the spring semester depending on the availability of funding.  Experience with Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat is required and a familiarity with early American history or material culture is preferred.

Salary: $9.00 an hour

The job will include:

Ø the manipulation of files and images in the site’s FileMaker Pro research database,

Ø the sorting and organization of paper and electronic files, and

Ø similar work as assigned.

The Research Database Assistant will be supervised by the Database and Records Manager.

Send a one page resumé and a brief statement of interest to sborchardt@montpelier.org.  For more information about Montpelier see www.montpelier.org and for more information about the project, see www.montpelier.org/blog.

The application deadline is October 21, 2009.

Background:

In 2008 the Montpelier Foundation completed a state-of-the-art restoration of the mansion of James and Dolley Madison.  The focus is now on refurnishing the newly restored mansion through intensive research documenting their lives and the possessions they owned.  The site is systematically reviewing a wide range of documents related to Madisons and their belongings and capturing that information in a custom designed inter-relational database.  This database is fast becoming Montpelier’s core reference resource.