Ohio History Service Corps ¿ Local History

Ohio History Service Corps LOCAL HISTORY members will serve in and around Akron, Bellefontaine, Bowling Green, Canton, Cincinnati, Milan, Portsmouth, Warren, and Youngstown, Ohio.

Corps members will assist their host and other regional organizations collaborate and building capacity for educational and public programming, special events, regional initiatives, heritage tourism, historic preservation, non-profit administration, community engagement, and collections care/digitization. Ohio History Service Corps members will activate, recruit and train volunteers on best practices in the museum, archives, public history, cultural heritage and long range planning.

Members will be full-time (35-40 hrs/wk) from September 17, 2025 to August 31, 2026. Members must complete a minimum of 1700 service hours (including 170 training hours) to successfully complete their service and to receive an education award.

The Local History AmeriCorps members will receive training in volunteer management, meeting facilitation, project management and education program development, public history best practices, collections care and digitization, community mapping, historic preservation, heritage tourism/community-based economic development, leadership and team building, and non-profit administration. They will also attend one statewide conference, which can include the Ohio Local History Alliance annual meeting and regional meetings. They will be required to participate in National Days of Service and AmeriCorps Week.

Applicants preferably have a college degree or similar level of experience and a passion for history, public history, museum studies, anthropology, other humanities, library sciences, historic preservation/architectural history, education, or related fields. Some event planning, community development, heritage tourism, and/or museums experience a plus but not required.