Community Manager Position @ Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY

The de Leeuw Lab at Vassar College is seeking a full-time Community Manager to support the development of an NSF-funded open-source ecosystem for behavioral experiments. The ecosystem is built around jsPsych, a JavaScript library for building behavioral experiments. The Community Manager’s primary role will be to work with software users and developers to support the growth of the ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Organize hackathons, both in-person and virtual
• Conduct community outreach including interviewing users to identify areas of need, writing updates about the project and creating a project roadmap to inform the community about planned changes.
• Conduct sustainability evaluations of the community and report the results
• Create and facilitate policy changes to improve the security of the software.
• Write new documentation and tutorials.
• Provide support on community discussion spaces, and assist with community governance.
• Work on experiment template development.
• Supervise undergraduate students.
• Test new development tools.

Qualifications:

Required

• Undergraduate degree in cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, economics, or a related field.
• Experience conducting behavioral research, especially in an online format.
• Ability to work in small teams and communicate with a wide range of community members.

Preferred 

• Experience working with jsPsych.
• Programming experience in JavaScript or another language.
• Experience using GitHub.
• Experience in an organizational or leadership role.

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