PSAC – RA II – Researcher and Indexing Assistant – History

Classification: Research Assistant II
Employee Group
: PSAC
Job Title: Researcher and Indexing Assistant
Department
:
History, Faculty of Arts
Wage or Salary
: $18.73/hr
Number of Hours to Work
: 48
Start Date
:
October 30, 2026
Number of Positions available
: 1
End Date of Employment: April 30, 2027
Course title and number (if applicable): NA
Date Issued
:
Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Qualifications/

Experience:


Completion of 3rd year of university studies.
Ability to work in digital archives; affinity with microfiche and digital documents. Ability to manage large data files, and decode abbreviations and coded information.
The ability to work with extreme precision: high attention to details as indexing of diaries and log books has to be done with absolute precision.
Accountability: the ability to reach out and ask for assistance if problems in the indexing process arise.
Keeping a log of activities and completed hours of work, and ability to navigate and entering the hours into the payroll

Key Duties:

The Research Assistant will provide support to Dr. Harms and the Anisinew Okimawin Tribal Council of Island lake on a project of historical recovery. Duties entail indexing of an extensive volume digitized materials that were transcribed in a previous phase of the research, to allow for their thematic organization, and facilitate coding and analysis.

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