Temporary Technical Project Manager: Water Treatment & Community Development

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Campus Collaboration: The Project Manager will work closely with stakeholders across multiple university campuses to ensure regular consistent communication and alignment on project goals and vision. This role requires fostering strong relationships, coordinating resources, and facilitating cross-campus initiatives that will result in the various university team members working together as one team.

Success Factors:

• Effective Communication: All key stakeholders feel informed and aligned on project objectives, timelines, and deliverables.

• Strong Relationships: Established trust and productive partnerships with key campus representatives and departments.

• Seamless Coordination: Resources, schedules, and activities are efficiently organized across campuses to minimize delays and conflicts.

• Achievement of Goals: Cross-campus projects are completed on time, within scope, and meet or exceed expectations.

• Resolution of Challenges: Identified and addressed inter-campus challenges proactively, ensuring a smooth path to success.

The Project Manager, in collaboration with the Principal Investigator, is responsible for fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented work environment that encourages teamwork, supports individual development, and ensures all team members feel valued and aligned toward achieving the project’s goals. This work is part of the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator Program which is focused on sustainability and national-scale impact. At the end of the fixed three-year term, teams are expected to provide high-impact deliverables that bring research off the shelves for positive societal impact. This project is within NSF’s Equitable Water Solutions Track.

The Project Manager, over the next three years, is responsible for...

• Refining the implementation process for delivering high-quality water treatment systems to under served small communities through a previously developed implementation pilot process. This work includes coordinating collaboration among numerous stakeholders (academia, industry, non-profit, etc) to refine the implementation framework, which involves providing community planning support, securing funding connections for, and deploying effective water treatment technologies. The majority of the work will take place in Puerto Rico and New York State.

• Developing with the team