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entity: Astropy Project
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title: Community Manager
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url: https://www.astropy.org/
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percentTime: 50
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percentOSS: 100
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deadline: 2023-05-01 # Application deadline
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expires: 2023-07-01 # Date when post is removed from board
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location: Remote
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description: |
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## About Astropy:
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The Astropy Project is a community effort to develop a common core package for Astronomy in Python and
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foster an ecosystem of interoperable astronomy packages. It is a widely used package in professional
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astronomy supporting missions like NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the Square Kilometer Array.
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Our community has over 1,200 members with nearly 200 active weekly. The majority of our members are based
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in the US but many are from around the world. For more about the project goals, please look at our
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[roadmap](https://github.com/astropy/astropy-project/blob/main/roadmap/roadmap.md).
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## About the Position:
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The Astropy Project is seeking to hire a part-time community manager to help grow and foster our diverse
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community of users, contributors, and developers. This is a new role in the organization offering many
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opportunities to help build our community and the role itself. As such, a driven and resourceful individual
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would be best suited for the role. If you are passionate about engagement and equitable open source software
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communities read on and apply by May 1, 2023.
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### Key responsibilities of the role:
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- Manage and support the existing Astropy Project Community, in consultation with that community.
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- Work to grow the Astropy Project community, and identify opportunities for collaboration by establishing relationships with users,
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especially from underrepresented communities and institutions.
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- Track and report engagement activities of the Astropy Project.
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- Run surveys to better understand the needs of our community and how to improve participation in our
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communities for different stakeholders.
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- Coordinate review and updates to the Astropy Code of Conduct, in consultation with the Astropy Coordination Committee.
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### The ideal candidate would have these skills:
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- Collaborative attitude.
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- Experience with a consensus-driven, geographically-dispersed software development team.
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- Ability to develop communication strategies to meet specific goals and reaching different audiences.
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- Knowledge of communities who use Github as their primary communication mechanism.
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- Demonstrable skills in group facilitation and stakeholder relationships management.
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- Knowledge of scientific community engagement techniques.
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- Experience and enthusiasm for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
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- Strong interpersonal skills.
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- Excellent judgment and diplomacy.
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- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
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### Desired Qualifications, but not necessary experiences include:
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- Managing forums like Slack and email lists
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- Managing social media accounts.
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- Experience working with open source projects.
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- Organizing in-person meetings of ~20 people.
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- Using websites to communicate.
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- Experience with building consensus around a code-of-conduct.
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- Using surveys to shape strategy.
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- Developing strategies to build a user-maintainer-contributor pipeline.
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- Organizing in-person software workshops.
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- Experience of working with a multicultural, international community.
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- Experience moderating online discussion forums, blogging platforms, or similar.
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- Event and project management experience.
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- Awareness of current trends in academic culture and informal communication channels.
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- Experience using Github to communicate, edit documents, or develop software.
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## Compensation and Term:
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The Community Manager is funded by Astropy Project which is managed by NumFocus.
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The position is for a minimum duration of one year and a possibility of further extension,
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depending on the available funding.
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We envision this role to be ongoing and future contracts to be for longer terms.
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## How to Apply:
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In order to apply, please send a cover letter, one page resume, and a list of 2-3 names and contact information for people
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who have agreed to serve as a reference to Ana Gabela at angabela@gmail.com with the subject line Community Manager and your last name.
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For questions about this position, please contact Ana Gabela at angabela@gmail.com.

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