Event Planner Job Announcement

Announcement

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager for organizing the Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camps. This is a full time position, reporting to the OSE executive director, and we are offering competitive pay based on experience and skills.

Does the open source economy speak to you as the next evolution of human consciousness? Do you want to create a passionate, high performing team to make this happen? Do you believe that global, open collaboration is a prerequisite for getting there? Do you want to solve pressing world issues, and teach others to do so with you? Are you open to rapid learning across boundaries to update your mental models continuously?

Currently we are developing the 9-day Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp as a regularly-scheduled immersion education program to be deployed concurrently in multiple cities around the world. Based on the success of our first STEAM Camp, we felt that we can make a dent in the universe by offering collaborative design training for public development of common products. This program involves the development of open source hardware products, their marketing mix, and producer training- such that we democratize production and bring innovation back to every community. See the STEAM Camp Curriculum for the specific program.

We need a Senior Project Manager to help us organize and execute the Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camps as we expand this program. We plan to reach up to 24 events in parallel in cities around the world – such that at each parallel event – we have a combined effort of about 500 participants who can work together on collaborative design. Do the STEAM Camps speak to you as something that can do a lot of good, and do you have the management and operations skills to execute such complex events?

Primary responsibilities include:

• Recruitment of instructors for the Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp
• Coordinating STEAM Camp instructors in delivering necessary curriculum - both for the main STEAM Camps and custom events
• Refining and finalizing curriculum for uniformity and ease of execution
• Coordinate with instructors and other prototypers and subject matter experts on producing related prototypes and kits
• Managing the building and distribution of kits to all instructors prior to the the STEAM Camps
• Scheduling STEAM Camp and related events, and providing admin, marketing, and logistics support
• Develop and execute a marketing strategy
• Facilitating collaboration between STEAM Camps as they are run in multiple locations around the world at the same time to provide a collaborative aspect between different locations
• Evaluating, improving, and optimizing the STEAM Camp Curriculum
• Optimizing the cost structure and budgets for STEAM Camps
• Refining and documenting the process for effective delivery of the STEAM Camps
• Attending the STEAM Camps, and learning the STEAM Camp curriculum to the point of being able to serve as an Instructor

All of these responsibilities will receive support and involvement from the Executive Director and other STEAM Camp instructors. Expectations for the Senior Project Manager in the first 6 months include:

• Recruit 6 new instructors every month until a stable pool of 24 instructors is available
• Reach 12 STEAM Camps running every 2 months
• Filling each STEAM Camp location with 12 paying participants
• Managing production and delivery of kits for each instructor's event
• Managing online registrations and customer support
• Publish monthly blog updates on STEAM Camp developments
• Publish all work openly and update time log on a daily basis on the OSE wiki -
• Attend at least one STEAM Camp as a participant
• Publishing an operations manual for STEAM Camp management

We are looking for a highly relational applicant, capable of managing relationships and complexity, and open to learning new skill sets. Applicants must be fluent in English and and proficient in written communications.

Applicants need not be technically proficient in open source hardware, but should have a basic level of hands-on building skills that allow for understanding of a product build process. Applicants should fundamentally understand the open source ethic, is and have some prior knowledge of the field, both technically and culturally.

Compensation will be based on experience and skills, with performance-based bonuses.

OSE has been an all-volunteer organization for over a decade. You should come into this job expecting to have a major impact on OSE and its mission. We are developing a quadruple strategy of: (1) running STEAM Camps; (2) producing kits; (3) running Summers of Extreme Design/Build and other immersion build workshops; and (4) Incentive Challenges. We want to expand and grow the STEAM Camps to provide a solid revenue stream, while creating a scalable platform for open source product development that feeds into kit production, summer camp programs, and incentive challenges. OSE's long-term goal is creating education campuses that serve as the next evolution of basic and higher education towards the Open Source Economy. The STEAM Camps provide a boot camp for collaborative product development that carry us far towards our long-term goal of transitioning the economy towards collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance.

To apply for this position, please send an email to info at opensourceecolgy.org with a 4-page proposal. Please review STEAM Camp - How It Works. The propo, showing as much detail as possible to demonstrate your strategic, organizational, and executive capacity - a Plan for our first event. you would take to take the existing curriculum and resources of OSE organize the first 12 events, the steps Your email should include a plain text paragraph or two summarizing your interest in and qualifications for the position, with your CV, résumé, or other supporting documents as attachments as needed.