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Astropy community manager job ad

Author: stefanv

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