Project Manager

Summary

Join Middlebury College as a CZInt Project Manager and work with international collaborators to coordinate community building initiatives for scientists studying Earth's Critical Zone. This part-time position requires strong organizational skills, communication abilities, and experience with video-conferencing platforms.

Requirements

• Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple and diverse tasks simultaneously
• Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to effectively work with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Familiarity with arranging reimbursements in Oracle, as well as basic budget management principles
• Ability to follow instructions, to work independently, and to contribute to a team
• Discipline and motiviation necessary to effectively work remotely
• Facility with the design, implementation, and evaluation of polling mechanisms suitable for collecting text-based responses from large numbers of people
• Experience with video-conferencing platforms and the steps involved in successfully coordinating an online webinar for globally distributed participants
• Familiarity with Google cloud-based file management software and software suitable for preparation of a graphic-rich newsletter for distribution to CZInt-affiliated scientists

Responsibilities

• Preparation of a quarterly newsletter and distribution to CZInt affiliated scientists
• Organization, advertising, and implementation of a monthly webinar series, including technical support to ensure the webinar is accessible to attendees and recorded for future viewing
• Maintenance of a database of scientists participating in CZInt activities, including compilation of results from surveys distributed during the webinar and other CZInt events
• Providing administrative support for the CZInt project leads, including taking minutes and preparing summaries of meetings between CZInt project leads and international collaborators
• Assisting Haunted Desk, the consultancy responsible for promotion of CZInt through social media outlets
• Making logistical arrangements for CZInt meetings at the Fall 2024 AGU conference in Washington, DC; the spring EGU conference in Vienna, Austria; the summer 2025 eLTER meeting in Tampere, Finland; and the 2025 AGU conference in New Orleans, and coordination of travel awards for CZInt meeting participants
• Leading a polling effort of the global Critical Zone research community to compile a crowd-sourced list of research priorities, and summarizing and evaluating results for inclusion in a paper presenting outcomes from the overall CZInt effort
• Assist in preparing annual and final reports of CZInt activities for the National Science Foundation