Research Consultant

6 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⛷️ Utah – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🔬 Research Analyst

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Description

• This job can be done remotely and involves onsite research in archives, societies, and libraries. • Help Church members fulfill their responsibility to discover their families through family history methods. • Provide high quality service to support the initiatives of the Family History Department. • Learn basics of providing genealogical analysis, consultation, research, instruction, and translation/transcription. • Consultants should have excellent research skills in identifying original records and working onsite in genealogical/historical societies. • Ability to travel as onsite research may be required in specified states where Church history occurred. • Involves finding materials that have not been previously identified.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in family & local history, languages or archival/library sciences, or a related field and 1 year full-time professional experience in a library or genealogical/historical research experience; or equivalent education & experience. • Able to quickly learn & apply proven genealogical strategies when doing research in some basic records & resources & knowledge of basic resources & record sets as determined by geographic area. • Able to develop sound genealogical conclusions from records using direct evidence; compile well documented pedigrees; & proficient in using basic resources & record sets to verify locality of family, birth of direct line ancestor, determine marriage of parents, identify complete families. • Excellent patron interaction, language & grammar skills to assist with writing in Wiki & answering correspondence. • Meet dept presentation & training standards with skills in PowerPoint & other presentation media. • Understanding of the history & culture of the geographic/subject area from the mid 1800s. • Competent with Microsoft Office & FamilySearch products. • Ability to decipher clearly written records. • Fluency reading & writing basic records in 1 foreign language.

Benefits

• Please note that this job posting may close at any time without prior notice. • Find out more about the many benefits of Church Employment at https://careers.churchofjesuschrist.org.