Communications and Partnerships Manager - Community for Rigor - Penn Engineering

Communications and Partnerships Manager
- Community for Rigor
- Penn Engineering University Overview

The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research,and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Penn has 12 highly-regarded schools that provide opportunities for undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, all influenced by Penn's distinctive interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and learning.

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Penn offers a unique working environment within the city of Philadelphia. The University is situated on a beautiful urban campus, with easy access to a range of educational, cultural, and recreational activities. With its historical significance and landmarks, lively cultural offerings, and wide variety of atmospheres, Philadelphia is the perfect place to call home forwork and play.

The University offers a competitive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare and tuition benefits for employees and their families, generous retirement benefits, a wide variety of professional development opportunities, supportive work and family benefits, a wealth of health and wellness programs and resources, and much more.

Communications and Partnerships Manager
- Community for Rigor
- Penn Engineering

Communications Specialist Senior

The Community for Rigor (C4R) is an innovative team at the University of Pennsylvania dedicated to changing research culture by providing comprehensive educational materials, promoting best practices, and fostering a community committed to improving research reliability. Community for Rigor is a 6-year funded project from NIH NINDS, and operates as a hub that coordinates the efforts of multiple partner institutions. We are seeking a Communications and Partnerships Manager, based out of the Kording Lab, to own the strategy and day-to-day execution of C4R's communications, community engagement, and outreach.

You will build and sustain an engaged community around research rigor, reaching a broad audience that includes students, research and support staff, faculty, and funders. This is a role for someone who thrives on a small, fast-moving team - operating independently, developing deep knowledge of C4R's educational product, hosting events, representing C4R directly to external audiences, and actively contributing to the project's fundraising and long-term sustainability.

In addition to empowering scientists, we also aim to empower every member of our team, through a supportive, inclusive, and open working environment.

• Own C4R's communications strategy and execution across all channels - audience targeting, platform-specific approaches, and brand and style-guide consistency - working with the Communications Team to plan, write, and distribute content (newsletters, op-eds, blog posts, social media) on a regular published cadence, trackingengagement and iterating based on performance.
• Supervise a team of two, including assigning work, reviewing output, and supporting their development.
• As a member of C4R Leadership, design and deploy a strategy for community engagement, including contribution and engagement pathways for our partners, stakeholders, learner audience, and broader scientific community.
• Serve as one of the key representatives of C4R's product to external audiences, designing and delivering tailored applications that support adoption - such as outreach presentations, 15-minute demonstrations of longer content, and short-form interactives for live events.
• Develop and maintain working knowledge of C4R's curriculum, including what each unit teaches and the research-rigor problem it addresses.
• Develop and maintain an understanding of C4R's audiences - including how researcher needs and motivations vary across disciplines and career stages - to shape messaging, audience targeting, and engagement pathways.
• Establish channels to gather feedback from audiences and stakeholders on C4R's products, such as surveys or other structured methods, and communicate findings and recommendations to organizational leaders.
• Initiate and sustain relationships with contacts, potential partners, academic institutions and their educational entities, and rigor, reproducibility, open-science, and educational organizations(e.g., The Carpentries, CZI Open Science, Reproducibili Tea,reproducibility networks).
• Identify and cultivate funding and partnership opportunities that support C4R's mission and long-term sustainability.
• Plan and coordinate events and C4R's annual conference across virtual, in-person, and hybrid formats, owning logistics through execution and follow-up.
• Support grant-related communications and donor or…