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OpenCUNY is Hiring!

Dear OpenCUNY Participants,

The Doctoral and Graduate Students’ Council (DGSC) seeks candidates for the OpenCUNY Coordinator for Organizing and Action.

The OpenCUNY Academic Medium formed in 2008 to provide a student organized, open-source, web platform for the Graduate Center community. The coordinators maintain OpenCUNY to provide access to a free and open source digital media platform that supports graduate students in sharing work and creating their digital presence. Coordinators also host events and workshops that advocate for and support the use of open source technology for the GC digital community.

The Coordinator for Organizing and Action serves as an advocate for the OpenCUNY community and facilitates participatory use of the platform by individual students and student groups, including DGSC committees, affiliates, chartered organizations, working groups, and program student associations. In effect, the Coordinator for Organizing and Action helps students to organize, collaborate, and amplify their messages using OpenCUNY. The coordinator routinely reaches out to student groups to consult on a range of projects such as organizational websites, stand-alone projects, conferences, research, and digital publications. The coordinator also helps develop resources to support these organizations and student projects. Ideal candidates for the Coordinator position will be effective problem-solvers, outgoing and creative, skilled with WordPress, and interested in issues of open-access publishing, open-source technology, and digital privacy.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate the following qualities:

Because OpenCUNY is a digital platform that serves The Graduate Center’s student community, applicants must be a matriculated GC students with an active OpenCUNY account at the time of application and throughout the duration the position is held.

The successful applicant will join Paul Hebert, Coordinator for Planning & Development, and Zach Muhlbauer, Coordinator for Education & Support, and together all coordinators will regularly communicate and share in the decision-making processes related to the platform including:

The new coordinator will begin work at the start of Fall 2022, and will receive a stipend of approximately $7000 annually, paid in monthly increments of $581.88. Please note that the OpenCUNY Coordinator stipend can be combined with other graduate stipends.

If you have any questions about this position or about OpenCUNY, please email the current OpenCUNY Coordinators at: info@opencuny.org.

To apply, please send a cover letter that addresses the bullet points above, a CV, and a one-page list of digital projects by Friday, May 27, 2022 to the DGSC Co-Chair for Student Affairs (Sharanya Dutta) at: ccsa@cunydsc.org.

Best regards,

Zach & Paul

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