| Title: | IGEN Project Manager |
|---|---|
| ID: | 1158-CP-APS |
| Department: | Project Development |
| Location: | Remote |
IGEN Project Manager
Who we are:
The American Physical Society (APS) is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities. APS represents over 55,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and throughout the world. Society offices are located in College Park, MD (Headquarters), Ridge, NY, and Washington, D.C.
Position Summary:
The Project Manager is a part of the Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN) Project Management team (PMT), working with the Alliance Director and Backbone Lead, to provide administrative support and management of project activities, including supporting the network communication, managing virtual meeting scheduling and coordinating and planning in-person meetings of the project leadership teams as well as large national meetings of the broad Network community. The management team will utilize APS resources and work with our partners to build innovative components that will change the paradigm of inclusive graduate education nationwide.
Responsibilities:
Project Development
- Work with the project leadership on techniques and tools that will increase participation of black, latino/a, and indigenous students in graduate education in the physical sciences
- Contribute to building new concepts for reaching and motivating physical scientists to join this national movement
- Assist in writing and editing of grant proposals or other documents that support project advancement
Project Management
- Track progress on development and operation of strategies
- Work with IGEN resources and other organizations to refine activities and build infrastructure that supports these efforts
- Coordinate meetings both internally and externally that inform and shape the project
- Document, track, and organize project resources
- Other activities as assigned
Communications
- Write and edit articles, brochures, project reports, and web-based materials
- Correspond via phone and email with students, faculty, national leaders, and others in the broader IGEN community
- Manage creation of graphics, graphs, and other materials that promote the project
- Become familiar with relevant peer-reviewed literature
Is This You:
Education: PhD or Master’s in the physical sciences or equivalent experience
Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Communicate accurately and professionally through writing
- Speak clearly and knowledgeably in a variety of professional settings including meetings, conferences, and informal professional settings
- Manage multiple complex tasks, and jump quickly between these projects as timelines demand
- Work independently with little supervision, and recognize critical issues or decisions that require deliberation based on complex interactions between project participants, and stated policies
- Resolve conflicts constructively, and empathize and understand perspectives of others
- Experience in organizing multi-faceted projects with many participants, multiple deadlines, and complex interactions desired
- Ability to travel several times each year
- Strong organization, documentation, and prioritization skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to adapt to quickly changing schedules.
- Ability to work well with interdepartmental teams as well as independently.
Our Mission:
To advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics for the benefit of humanity, promote physics, and serve the broader physics community, we:
- Provide a welcoming and supportive professional home for an active, engaged, and diverse membership
- Advance scientific discovery and research dissemination
- Advocate for physics and physicists, and amplify the voice for science
- Share the excitement of physics and communicate the essential role physics plays in the modern world
- Promote effective physics education for all
The core values that drive our mission are:
- The Scientific Method
- Truth and Integrity
- Diversity, Inclusion, and Respect
- Partnering, Cooperation, and Open Collaboration
- Speaking Out
- Education and Learning
The American Physical Society is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. The American Physical Society is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact Kimberly Browne, Senior Recruiter at browne@aps.org
The APS has a “remote first” concept that promotes equal treatment and equal access, independent of physical work location, with a majority of staff working primarily from remote work locations.
We welcome you to apply today!
