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  • The Role:This role is for a web designer and digital humanities editor in a university history department.
  • The Person:The person will design, update, and maintain the project website, improve its usability and accessibility, create online content, digitize documents, and help with historical research and assistant mentoring.
  • Requirements:The ideal candidate has experience with user experience, optimized search, current web accessibility standards, responsive design principles, information architecture, and original online content.

About the role

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.

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has shaped leaders, changemakers, and innovative thinkers since its founding in 1794. The university is home to more than 38,000 students and 10,000 statewide employees—the Volunteers—who uphold the university’s tradition of lighting the way for others through leadership and service. 
UT Knoxville offers over 900 programs of study across 14 degree-granting colleges and schools. As Tennessee’s flagship land-grant university, its footprint spans the entire state. The university holds the highest Carnegie classification for research activity and has deep partnerships with industry leaders and the US Department of Energy’s largest multidisciplinary laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 
The Knoxville campus serves and recruits for UT Knoxville, including the Institute of Agriculture and the Space Institute, as well as the UT Institute of Public Service.  
UT Knoxville considers its employees its number one asset. With values that focus on work-life balance, compensation, and innovation leadership, all Vols are supported to advance professionally. Employees have access to career development and coaching, continued education, and an extensive list of development and training possibilities. The Volunteer employee experience implements structures and practices to attract and retain top-tier talent, fostering a strong staff community and supporting a culture of involvement and engagement for everyone. 
The university holds a strong commitment to its land-grant mission of learning and engagement, with a tradition of service and leadership that carries that Volunteer spirit throughout the state and around the world. It has been ranked nationally as “Best Employer for New Graduates,” “One of America’s Best Large Employers,” and “Best Workplace for Women,” and has been designated as “Best Place for Working Parents” by Forbes Magazine.  
Apply today and join the Tennessee Volunteer community! 
Published August 12, 2026
Location Knoxville, TN
Category UX/UI Design  
Job Type Full-Time  

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