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Climate Registry Project Leader, Climate Action Systems (CAS), Cambridge, MA

Climate Action Systems (CAS) seeks a Project Leader to build a registry of products and initiatives that address the climate crisis. CAS recruits students and volunteers to build the Registry. The Project Leader assigns tasks to the contributors, trains them, leads their work, assesses the data quality, provides professional editing, and directs the growth of the Registry. The successful candidate must also lead the work of distributed teams that do not share a work office, and must have the professional skills to manage classification of free-text information.

Responsibilities 

  • To lead and motivate students and other volunteers working several hours per week to search the web for climate products and projects. Work will be based on our methodology that enables contributors to do structured data entry using a classification scheme CAS provides. Because the volunteers are not expert in classifications or information analysis, and they work part-time, this role requires leadership that is much more than administrative project management.

  • To manage and oversee the quality of work done by volunteers, assign tasks, and help contributors accomplish these tasks.

  • To provide professional editing and quality control of the volunteers’ work.

  • To grow the Registry to a large scale in selected solutions, especially over the next 6 months, based on deep understanding of climate change blueprints, and the strategic framework that CAS has developed.

  • To tune and upgrade the CAS classification schemes that translate our strategic framework into inputs for data-entry work.

  • To make suggestions about new requirements for software updates to the technology team

Primary Mode of Working

  • Leadership and management via Zoom group calls

  • One-on-one work when needed by phone or by email

The position might start as a part time role but rapidly grow into a full- time position as the Registry expands. Most of the work will be virtual, using web conferences and online tools.

Required Skills 

  • Agility, the ability to strive, not merely survive, in the evolving development of this first-of-its-kind registry. The challenge we face is that we are building a contextual database that needs to provide high-quality information for intelligent automation, using non-professional contributors to provide the Inputs.

  • Managing classification schemes of free-text information

  • Experience in effective high-quality online research. We need to identify the ‘needles in the haystack’ worth adding to a registry that will be used for automated analysis.

  • Being able to accurately apply the Registry classification scheme

  • Being able to explain to students and other volunteers the best way to classify difficult cases

  • Identifying when the classification scheme needs to be amended or extended

  • Defining search tasks and providing guidance on optimal search methods

  • Managing and motivating the volunteering contributors

    • Being able to effectively on-board new recruits

    • Providing guidance and training to contributors

    • Managing group meetings via Zoom

    • Keeping morale high

    • Engaging students in process improvement

    • Providing feedback to students to improve performance

    • Problem solving around classification entailing conflicts

    • Maintaining high work standards (hours worked, accuracy of

    • classification, productivity)

    • Identifying and promoting high performers

Annual Salary: $60,000 plus benefits.

To Apply:

Interested applicants should request a Zoom interview by sending a cover note and a CV to [email protected].

About Climate Action Systems (CAS) 

Climate Action Systems (CAS) is a not-for-profit foundation that is committed to provide this missing link: to marshal the resources and steward the work of building that infrastructure.

Our Mission: In service of groups that are organized to combat climate change, we provide a collaborative infrastructure designed to transform good intentions into effective actions.

Thirteen years after Al Gore’s epic movie, An Inconvenient Truth, propelled global warming into a key public issue, awareness of the climate crisis is at an all-time high, causing widespread anxiety and impacting policy. The current imperative is to transform mounting awareness and good intentions into decisive outcomes in less than thirteen years. Earnest pledges are insufficient. Now is the time to accelerate action substantially to enable the planet to continue to support human life.

We are currently launching a project that will expand our software solution to include a global registry of products, projects and initiatives. Our intelligent navigation software will use this information to ‘connect the dots’ between groups that need help implementing green solutions and providers that can support them.

Climate Action Systems’ infrastructure is built on conversations: the method in which human beings naturally excel. Intelligent conversational software guides people through the right steps, at the right time, without requiring them to fill out complex forms. Instead of merely reporting what people have already done, the software helps users to make the best decisions and carry out the best actions. Instead of forcing people to mentally ‘connect the dots’ across emails, chats, and databases, it automatically links and tracks all connections to their source activities. The software eliminates administrative work of no value while it transforms experts’ tacit knowledge into conversations that enable high-performance collaboration, on the go.

Climate Action Systems is a foundation that moves from imagining this future to creating it. Join us. Support our activities. You are a concerned citizen of Planet Earth, this is your home, act now!