Project Officer

Place description

Columbia World Initiatives (CWP) is a university-wide initiative that goals to forge nearer and extra helpful connections between Columbia College’s huge analysis capabilities and the wants of the world. CWP leverages and consults with colleagues and college to develop initiatives that we employees and function with companions (governments, organizations, companies and communities) in New York Metropolis, throughout the USA, and world wide. Dedicated to attracting and retaining a various employees, CWP is devoted to rising variety in its workforce and in all its initiatives with a purpose to obtain continued excellence and align with Columbia’s dedication to create a vibrant, various, equitable, and inclusive college group.

The Middle for Political Financial system, housed at CWP, works to determine and advance probably the most promising and progressive post-2008 developments inside economics, and to advertise a brand new political financial system with sturdy philosophical underpinnings, distinctive for our time, with an institutional, cross-disciplinary orientation connecting economics to, amongst different topics, historical past, regulation, political science, sociology, public well being, engineering, and knowledge science. On the core of its work, the Middle will develop “thought labs” to advance contemporary considering, form analysis agendas, have an effect on graduate coaching, and function mental and coverage incubators throughout distinct themes in political financial system.

Place Abstract
The Middle for Political Financial system at Columbia World Initiatives seeks a Mission Officer (PO). Reporting to the Mission Director of the Middle for Political Financial system at Columbia World Initiatives, the incoming PO will assist the administration of the Middle’s actions in assist of its targets. This contains working with the Mission Director and college co-directors to assist and advance the planning, administration, and implementation of the Middle’s work plans, actions and initiatives. The PO will coordinate and assist design Middle occasions, assist the work of its Thought Labs and postdoctoral analysis students/scientists, and coordinate an annual school grants program. The PO will employees conferences of the Middle’s co-directors and college advisory board, take part in strategic discussions of the Middle’s future, and assist oversee Middle budgets and communications exercise. The PO may even develop and preserve collaborations with key companions, stakeholders and supporters. The PO could have alternatives to interact with all CWP items and take part in challenge growth and could also be requested to take part in serving to to plan key CWP occasions germane to the Middle’s work.

Duties

• Handle the development of recent Middle initiatives and initiatives (together with creating course of paperwork, work plans and timelines), together with its Thought Labs.
• Create and administer processes and procedures that element occasion planning logistics and works carefully with CWP’s administration, Analysis and Engagement, and Communications groups within the group of lectures, workshops, and different convenings.
• Liable for scheduling conferences, making ready agendas, taking notes, and offering observe as much as stakeholders.
• Preserve energetic communication with presenters, lecturers, and facilitators to make sure the profitable execution of convening occasions.
• Liaise with Middle contributors (together with school, graduate college students and postdoctoral fellows) and function main communication useful resource to handle questions, points or issues.
• Present administrative assist for annual school grant competitions and postdoctoral positions.
• Preserve the Middle’s mailing lists and web site, usually updating website guests and contacts of recent Middle occasions and alternatives by means of these pathways, in addition to extra social media channels.
• Develop and preserve the calendar of occasions of engagement actions associated to the Middle’s work and serves as the purpose individual for the planning and managing of public occasions, workshops and different Middle convenings.
• Assist the event and administration of the Middle’s annual challenge plan and associated work plans and budgets.
• Help the Middle’s Mission Director in creating technical and progress stories for Middle stakeholders, governance our bodies, donors and supporters.
• Different duties as assigned.

{Qualifications}

Minimal {Qualifications}

Bachelor’s diploma and/or equal and 2-4 years of associated expertise required.

Most well-liked {Qualifications}

• Glorious organizational, administrative, and collaborative abilities.
• Potential to make use of software program platforms and purposes, together with Excel, Phrase, PowerPoint and Google Docs. Familiarity with MailChimp and content material updates to web sites useful.
• Glorious interpersonal and communication abilities. The individual ought to possess the presence, power and confidence to develop and domesticate relationships with various constituencies, together with school; employees; trade, nonprofit and public sector companions; and colleagues throughout a posh establishment.
• Potential to juggle a number of initiatives without delay.
• Potential to work efficiently in a multifaceted, team-oriented surroundings.
• Confidence to suggest concepts and technique as work unfolds.

Hybrid Schedule

Columbia International maintains a hybrid work surroundings that ensures that we protect the necessary points of our distinctive in-person college campus tradition that assist significant collaboration and development of CG key initiatives. Colleagues will work onsite three of 5 work days and two digital days.

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