Center for Open Science is hiring a
Founding Program Manager

Summary

Join us as an independent contractor for a Founding Program Manager role in creating a Metascience Alliance. This two-year contract will involve community building, workforce development, and matchmaking to support metascience objectives.

Requirements

• Strong leadership and community-building orientation
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Substantial experience in metascience and knowledge of the metascience landscape
• Ability to work independently and in coordination with multiple stakeholders
• Highly efficient and task-oriented, inspires others
• Attention to detail and very strong documentation and workflow management skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritize, make decisions, problem-solve, and ask for help
• Strong practical experience in project management
• Experience with highly collaborative projects

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and lead a community-led process to define and refine the objectives for a Metascience Alliance
• Develop a strategy to enact the Alliance, implement the Alliance for a two-year pilot phase, and develop a sustainability plan if the Alliance shows promise

Benefits

• $150,000 per year, paid in quarterly installments
• 40 hours per week of effort for 48 weeks per year