AdaCAD Community Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy and development of plans for onboarding users and contributors; making sure new community members feel welcomed, supported, and adhere to the community guidelines.
• Proactively collaborate with community members to identify key needs or desires and scaffolding activities that help us address those needs and desires.
• Create user-friendly workflows for sharing community projects online across social media and documentation platforms.
• Identify events that engage the existing community and/or bring awareness of our project to new groups and represent AdaCAD at those events.
• Develop and manage program evaluation and assessment plans, collecting and analyzing data to demonstrate progress towards strategic goals.
• Establish and engage an advisory board who can provide feedback and guidance to the project at regular intervals.
• Establish, plan, convene, and lead project governance meetings for the AdaCAD advisory board, project team, and an international group of contributors at least 4 times per year.
• Create and implement best practices and norms for governance meetings, including publishing meeting minutes for public review.
• Develop and collaboratively revise foundational documents (e.g. code of conduct, contributor expectations, etc.).
• Establish a workflow for handling disputes, conflicts, or grievances between community members.

Requirements

• 1 year of experience designing and leading outreach within a creative community, preferably a "grass-roots" community formed around a common interest.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to build, sustain, and grow professional relationships and networks.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously and pivot between them as required.
• Proficiency with facilitating in-person and virtual meetings.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Experience leading multi-person teams in complex projects.
• Comfort preparing and uploading materials to our existing website (which requires basic/low-level of programming and use of the command line).
• Experience organizing activities within and among interest-centered communities
• Basic graphic design training and proficiency with Adobe Suite (or equivalent).

Preferred

• Experience participating in or contributing to an interest-oriented community.
• Prior experience as a community manager for an open-source project.
• Experience managing the social media presence for a creative community, proposing and creating new content.
• An active textile practice.
• 1-2 years of experience doing related work.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and retirement plans; generous paid time off; tuition assistance for you and your dependents; and an ECO Pass for local transit.