Project Manager, Discovering the SPARC (NASA Science Activation)

The University of Scranton seeks a Project Manager to lead day-to-day operations of Discovering the SPARC, a five-year NASA Science Activation program connecting the public, teachers, and students to NASA heliophysics. The role manages project reporting, budgets, partner activities, volunteer coordination, and communications across the HamSCI community.

Responsibilities:

• Keep the master schedule, milestones and reporting calendar
• Track spending against the budget with the department’s administrative assistant, and reconcile it with the University’s post-award finance office
• Draft rebudget proposals for the Principal Investigator and the University’s Authorized Organizational Representative
• Monitor subawards to ARRL, the Space Science Institute, MIT Haystack Observatory, the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Alabama, and the evaluation agreement with Kera Collective
• Track the information for NASA Science Activation’s annual data calls as activities happen, through the year: reach (numbers and locations), partners, subject matter experts and outcomes, gathering inputs from all SPARC partners
• Compile annual progress reports to NASA and the responses to Science Activation data calls, with the external evaluator, Kera Collective
• Provide project management support across the HamSCI research awards that feed SPARC
• Support the ARRL and Space Science Institute co-leads of Discovery Stations and the Education Ambassador program with scheduling, logistics, tracking and reporting
• Coordinate Personal Space Weather Station deployments to partner sites
• Plan the annual HamSCI Workshop
• Manage the HamSCI Newsletter, hamsci.org and project social media
• Recruit, train and coordinate volunteer project managers for the HamSCI working groups
• Represent the project in the national NASA Science Activation community, including its monthly meetings and annual in-person meeting near Washington, DC

Requirements:

• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S
• Bachelor's degree required
• At least three years of project or program management experience
• Clear writing and careful budget tracking
• Comfort coordinating many partners at once
• Skill with shared documents and online collaboration tools
• Interest in science education and public engagement
• Five or more years of project management experience with NASA Science Activation and citizen science projects in heliophysics
• Experience with grant-funded, multi-institution or volunteer-based programs
• Experience with federal grants, informal science education or citizen science
• An amateur radio license and an interest in space science
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification