Project Coordinator, Berkman Center, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Posted September 22, 2013
Duties & Responsibilities:
metaLAB at Harvard, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, seeks a project coordinator to perform diverse research and coordination activities associated with various projects. S/he will join the metaLAB’s world-class community of scholars, designers, and technologists, and work in close collaboration with members of the metaLAB team to advance a range of interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research related to the role of technology in the arts, humanities, and heritage institutions.
Reporting to metaLAB’s Faculty Director, the Coordinator will be tasked with: integrating the efforts of multiple team members, including editing written materials to establish common voice; coordinating research activities, communicating with external partners; monitoring overall timelines and outputs including project and grant deliverables, events, and grant reports; and doing research and writing, from blog posts to grant proposals to longer thought pieces.
Additionally, the coordinator will help to manage events; maintain online project management tools such as mailing lists; and oversee projects’ web presences. The project coordinator will help to guide the work of interns and research assistants.
Based on metaLAB’s fast-paced and changing needs, the project coordinator may be called upon for other tasks at short notice.
Occasional evening and weekend work will be required. Travel opportunities may arise.
The right candidate will thrive in a committed, collaborative, and tight-knit community that encourages creativity, supports deep inquiry, values novel approaches to solving problems, strives for transparency, continually builds upon best-practices and lessons learned, and supports its community members’ independent and collective goals.
Basic Qualifications
2 plus years of administrative work experience, preferably in academic or cultural-heritage contexts.
Additional Qualifications
Experience doing substantive and organizational work for libraries, archives, and academic organizations strongly preferred. Knowledge of technology issues in the arts and humanities, including metadata schema, archival description, and the analysis of electronic texts, is essential. Progressive research skills required, including proficient knowledge of research tools, both internet- and non-internet based. Candidate must pay great attention to detail and be highly organized. Ability to work under tight deadlines a must. Solid writing, editing and proofreading skills required. Fluency in Internet research and publishing tools are highly desirable. Candidate would thrive in dynamic, entrepreneurial, self-motivated environment. Must be able to work alone and in teams.
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