**Our Voices, Our Stories: Oral Histories of Hazara Canadians **records the experiences of Hazara elders in Toronto and Montreal. In partnership with Hazara Heritage, we're hiring a Project Archivist to help ensure Hazara voices are heard, preserved, and celebrated for generations to come.
Job Description:
Hazara Heritage, a registered not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing awareness to and preservation of Hazara cultural heritage in Canada, is seeking a skilled Project Archivist to lead "Our Stories, Our Voices: Oral Histories of Hazara Canadians." This oral history project is made possible with generous funding from the Library and Archives Canada’s Documentary Heritage Communities Program (2025-26). The project is supported by the Muslims in Canada Archives at the Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto in an advisory capacity.
This is a unique opportunity to preserve and amplify the stories of Hazara elders in Canada through ethical practice, community collaboration, and multi-lingual storytelling (English/French/Persian). Additionally, the project builds capacity for a grassroots, not-for-profit organization to gain information management, oral history interviewing, and digital preservation skills to steward their cultural heritage into the future.
Your opportunity:
Reporting to and working alongside Hazara Heritage, the Project Archivist will play an integral role in overseeing transcriptions in English, French, and Persian; apply RAD, Dublin Core and community-oriented controlled vocabulary to describe the generated materials; support any logistics for community consultations, interview sessions, and launch event. You will also gain valuable experience in setting up a community archive, learning to collaborate with community members to understand their archival needs and desires, and balancing archival practices to these needs.
Qualifications:
· Master’s degree in Archival Studies, Library Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
· Proficiency in archival standards (RAD, Dublin Core), metadata creation, digital preservation, and editing audio files.
· Strong organizational skills; multitasker; strong communication skills; ability to work independently and with volunteers.
· Experience working/collaborating with marginalized communities in similar or differing contexts is required.
· Language skills in Persian (Dari) and French are an asset but not required.
· Flexibility to adapt timelines and collaborate with Hazara Heritage and MICA Advisory archivists is essential. The role prioritizes community-centered archival practices and ethical storytelling.
Key Responsibilities:
· Undertake pre-readings on Hazara community histories and undergo onboarding to understand project goals, timeline, and expectations, including training on community-informed archival standards (RAD, Dublin Core)
· Create preliminary metadata and profiles/biographical files for confirmed interviewees.
· Transcribe interviews into English and coordinate with translator, if needed.
· Apply RAD and Dublin Core standards and community-informed description to describe interviews for deposit at MICA and upload to Hazara Heritage’s website.
· Manage digital preservation of master and access copies and donate preservation files to MICA with advisory/MICA archivists
· Support Hazara Heritage to select interview clips for social media promotion and draft contextual content.
· Support event logistics (e.g., invitations, RSVP tracking) and participate in the launch to showcase project outcomes with Hazara Heritage, Muslims in Canada Archives and other community partners.
Closing Date: 30 Mar 2026
Application: Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter as a single PDF file to info@hazaraheritage.org
Work Environment: Mixed (home, community spaces in Toronto and Montreal areas, University of Toronto); travel required.
Lived Experience Statement: Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to this position.