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SSD Social Sciences Research Center (SSRC) - Staff and Temporary Employees

About the Department

The position will be housed under the Knowledge Lab but will exclusively manage the programs for the APTO - NSF project. The role will report to James Evans, but they will also have responsibility for the other Co-PIs on the project.

Job Summary

The job leads the administration of academic, research, clinical or administrative programs.

The Senior Project Manager and Outreach Director will be the lead administrator supporting the broader impacts and outreach associated with the collaborative NSF-funded research project \"Global Observatory and Virtual Laboratory for Science & Technology Advance.\" This role will manage the broader activities and outcomes of this project, tracking progress, building reports, and keeping leadership apprised of setbacks or other concerns. This role will be the key coordinator and contact for project activities including the robust outreach programs for under-represented STEM students. They will create and manage a communication strategy for public-facing outreach, and an internal communication strategy for the collaborators of the project. They will also build relationships with community partners and educational organizations who will be critical to outreach program success. The role will be an integral part of the success of this project, and will lead outreach-related goal setting, implementation, and other strategic efforts to build and report on the project\'s public-facing impacts.

The project will create an artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven global observatory and virtual laboratory for U.S. science and technology advancement, involving the production of data sets and technology outcome models that explore global technologies and account for the complex and emergent interdependencies between the technologies themselves, the funders, resources, researchers, and universities that catalyze and invent them, the workforces and organizations that produce them, and the markets that consume them.

Drawing upon the power of the deep neural network architectures that underlie contemporary large language models (LLMs), the project team, led by the University of Chicago\'s James Evans, will build these first-of-their-kind deep-learned, chronologically-trained, context-sensitive LLMs. The LLMs will map funded proposals, articles, patents, products, related news, and their rich meta-data to quantitative metrics of technology capability, production, and use. Both a global observatory and a virtual laboratory for U.S. science and technology advancement, the project\'s research findings will inform models of global science and technology capability and identify the impact of policy levers on global technology leadership.

Impacts of the work will reach funding agencies, policy makers, and researchers, improving the quality and diversification of their technology development portfolios. The project team and partners will also engage underrepresented STEM students to build understanding of critical technologies and widen the accessibility of AI technology among students.

This position will report to the PI, James Evans.

Responsibilities

Oversees entire program communication with internal and external stakeholders.

Plans, coordinates, arranges, leads and reports on meetings and workshops with key stakeholders.

Tracks progress, conducts analyses, as well as prepares for and facilitates project meetings.

Leads goal-planning, setting, and implementation across teams, ensuring individual and team alignment with organizational priorities.

Develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports.

Coordinat s reporting of project documentation and deliverables.

Ensures project deliverables are completed according to both internal and stakeholder timelines, and notifies project leadership when project timelines are at risk, and works with team members to ensure successful project completion.

Uses in-depth knowledge and experience to administer the delivery of services to program participants and/or beneficiaries such as communicating with program sponsors and academic advising for undergraduate students.

Develops and communicates program priorities and performance standards and assesses operations using these criteria. Plans and conducts quality assurance reviews and recommends changes as appropriate.

Acts as a resource for a project team and provides analytical guidance. Interprets complex project issues and provides analytical guidance to a project team.

Assist with hiring and onboarding new members of the team and incorporating them into the project infrastructure.

Assists with other administrative tasks as needed.

Develop and directly lead implementation of the community outreach programs across site locations with little to no oversight.

Build partnerships with the Summer Institute in Computat