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Req #: 236435

Department: SCHOOL OF IAS

Posting Date: 07/17/2024

Closing Info: Open Until Filled

Salary: $5,643 - $6,590 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-staff-20230701_a11y.pdf )

Although open until filled, priority application date is July 31, 2024.

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

The School of IAS has an outstanding opportunity for a Program Operations Specialist to join their team.

This is a grant funded position and will not continue beyond three years. The continuation of this position beyond three years is contingent upon future funding. POSITION PURPOSE

The Program Manager for the Washington Prison History Project leads the day-to-day development and implementation of the project’s research and community engagement. This position includes administrative duties, responsibility for building and maintaining external community partner relationships, and working with on-campus partners. The range of tasks in this position include: strategic planning and implementation to enhance the project, facilitating research in and expansion of the project archive, communicating with currently and formerly incarcerated people regarding the project, management of online systems and web content, hiring other project staff, and arranging and leading meetings with the project team. This position is funded by a three-year grant and reports to the project’s Principal Investigator.

The Washington Prison History Project is a multimedia archive of prisoner activism and prison policy housed in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at UWB. IAS provides a rigorous liberal arts education that draws connections across academic disciplines and links classroom learning to practical experience across diverse fields and sectors. IAS values engaged scholarship, transformative pedagogy, social justice, equity, and diversity.

With transformational funding from the Mellon Foundation, the Washington Prison History Project is expanding its reach and offerings in four areas: 1. Conducting research and preparing data visualizations that extend the project’s historical scope and application; 2. Developing community outreach and exhibition; 3. Expanding our platform to make archival materials more accessible and available; and 4. Formalizing connections with similar prison history projects nationwide.

This is a three-year grant-funded position that will report to the principal investigator of the grant and work as part of a small team. The ideal candidate for this position would be a collaborative and detail-oriented administrator who possesses knowledge of the criminal legal system, interest in community history and reciprocal modes of research, and a deep commitment to working with currently and formerly incarcerated people.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: • Conduct and implement strategic planning to expand the project in a manner that is sustainable, equitable, and reciprocal. • Liaison between IAS and UW Library as concerns the project. Coordinate additions and access to the project archive. • Work with appropriate university staff as needed on hires and purchases. • Prepare regular project reports to funder and university. • Facilitate and or take notes at project meetings. • Identify and pursue additional funding opportunities as needed.

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: • Consult with the project’s existing advisory board on relevant updates, strategic plans. • Identify and meet with relevant local/statewide community and incarcerated organizations. Coordinate with organizations identified by the principal investigator and advisory board. • Develop, support the participation of, and consult with an advisory board of incarcerated people in Washington. • Liaison with grant sub awardee. • Work with Community Outreach Coordinator to support, plan, and attend project-sponsored community events. • Attend relevant gatherings/events organized by incarcerated people in Washington. • Help develop a network of related projects nationally.

COMMUNICATION: • Maintain consistent and clear communication with project staff and advisory board, university partners, and community partners. • Manage project website and social media presence. • Respond to media and general public requests about the project.

SUPERVISION: • Work with principal investigator to hire, support other staff positions for the grant. • Supervise other grant-hired positions.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in nonprofit administration, criminology, ethnic studies, interdisciplinary studies, education, legal studies, public administration, public history, public policy, social sciences, or related fields. • Minimum two years’ experience in program coordination, nonprofit administration, project management, research, creative projects, community engagement and outreach, or related fields.

Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to communicate, build, and maintain collaborative relationships with diverse constituencies, including faculty, staff, community partners, and currently and formerly incarcerated people. • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and respectfully with partners who include historically marginalized communities. • Knowledge and understanding of issues related to incarceration and other systems of oppression and ability to translate this knowledge to higher education context. • Ability to take initiative in a team-based environment while simultaneously following through on independent projects. • Strong management, organization, verbal and written communication skills. • Ability to multitask and adhere to detail-oriented projects in time-sensitive manner. • Demonstrated ability to use basic and some advanced functions of Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office Suite (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and web-based platforms (including Google Suite, Zoom, Eventbrite).

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Knowledge of criminal legal system and issues faced by currently and formerly incarcerated people • Experience with program administration and project implementation • Experience with social media platforms, WordPress, and prison-based communication platforms (e.g., Securus) • Knowledge of research equity and reciprocity • Experience with archives, historical research, or participant action research

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:

• A hybrid model of in-person and telework is common. In-person office is shared with other project staff members. • Ability and willingness to travel statewide, particularly to correctional settings and to community events (primarily in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties) • Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends.

Application Process: The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.