Field Logistics Coordinator

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Digital Harbor Foundation

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2011

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

📡 Telecommunications

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 Grant - Digital Harbor Foundation on 2025-08

Non-profit • Education • Telecommunications

Digital Harbor Foundation is a nonprofit organization that advances digital equity by creating access to technology, high-quality STEM learning, and broadband connectivity in Baltimore and beyond. It runs youth-focused tech labs and educator training through its Tech Center and Center of Excellence, bridges academic innovation and the tech economy via its Tech Extension and Product Studio, and deploys community broadband through Project Waves to connect unserved and underserved households. The foundation also offers fiscal sponsorship and convenes partners to scale social-impact technology solutions.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary point of contact for ALE for all expedition logistics: flight scheduling, cargo, camp configuration, field movement planning, and communications setup • Work with the science team to develop a detailed Field Plan covering site access, instrument deployment sequences, traverse routes, daily schedules, and contingency plans • Coordinate equipment procurement, packing, documentation, and cargo shipping to Punta Arenas staging • Coordinate team medical/fitness clearances and any ALE-required training or documentation • Liaise with science team members across multiple institutions to consolidate logistics requirements • Oversee equipment repatriation, cargo tracking, and shipping from Punta Arenas • Compile a post-season logistics report documenting lessons learned, ALE costs, and recommendations for future seasons

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated polar field experience, preferably including at least one Antarctic season, with strong working knowledge of the realities of remote ice-sheet fieldwork • Experience working within or alongside a commercial or national Antarctic logistics provider; familiarity with how field plans, cargo systems, and flight scheduling work in practice • Direct prior experience with ALE operations and Union Glacier staging • Personal Antarctic field experience, providing firsthand understanding of the environment and constraints the team will be working in • Background in glaciology, geophysics, or a related cryosphere science; familiarity with seismic, GNSS, or radar field operations • Experience coordinating multi-institutional science teams • Prior role as field PI, science coordination office member, or expedition manager on a polar project