Project Coordinator, Labor Futures

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $63.5k - $78k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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👷‍♀️ Project Manager

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Data & Society Research Institute

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2014

🤝 Non-profit

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Artificial Intelligence • Social Impact

Data & Society Research Institute is an independent, nonprofit research organization focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technologies. The institute conducts interdisciplinary research, aiming to inform and shape public conversations about the impacts of technology on society. It emphasizes the importance of grounding technology policy in empirical evidence and advocates for the public interest in technology governance. Its work involves analyzing how digital and data infrastructures impact labor, governance, and democracy.

📋 Description

• Serve as the main point of contact between researchers, community partners, the Labor Futures team, and other Data & Society departments • Facilitate and coordinate activities for the Labor Futures team • Assist the Program Director in moving the project from planning to publication and dissemination • Coordinate multi-faceted programming and provide day-to-day administrative, operational, and logistical project support • Schedule and manage meetings and check-ins with researchers and community partners • Keep researchers informed of project developments and support timely completion of deadlines and deliverables • Coordinate project-related financial workflows, including IRB, participant stipends, and approved researcher travel • Support report development and publication by coordinating structures, timelines, resources, and researcher connections • Synthesize meetings into clear action items and identify conflicts, discrepancies, or synergies for escalation • Oversee the operational calendar, prepare agendas and pre-meeting materials, take notes, and maintain shared file systems • Coordinate timelines and deliverables with Communications, Strategy & Engagement, and Editorial teams • Coordinate onboarding processes and financial workflows for Contract Researchers with HR and Finance • Maintain partner relationships and coordinate recurring calls, updates, event announcements, and follow-up notes • Maintain a contact database of project inquiries from academia, civil society, and journalists • Participate in internal programming, organizational meetings, talks, seminars, reading groups, working groups, committees, and professional development activities

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required • 7 plus years’ experience in project management, coordination, community support, or closely related areas • Experience working in a research environment • Deep familiarity with research practices and norms, qualitative and fieldwork-based research, and research institutions such as Institutional Review Boards • Familiarity with Zotero and academic platforms including SSRN, Google Scholar, and major scholarly journals • Established history of collaborative work with civil society, community, and labor organizations • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet required deadlines • Excellent interpersonal skills and experience working with diverse coworkers and collaborators • Detail-oriented and highly organized • Ability to work independently within a remote-first organization • Must be living and authorized to work in the United States • Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before joining, subject to reasonable accommodation requirements • Three professional references required in the application • Finalists must complete a short, role-specific writing exercise

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Access to opt-in products and services including additional insurance and 401k management • Paid time off • Paid federal holidays • Remote-first work arrangement • Professional development opportunities • Organization-wide meetings, retreats, town halls, listening sessions, workshops, training, and social events • Reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process • COVID-19 vaccination accommodation evaluation in accordance with ADA-related requirements