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OPERATIONS DIRECTOR, Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP)-Senseable City Lab (SCL), to provide strategic and operational leadership across all the lab's functions and assume broad responsibility for planning, shaping, directing, and executing its mission. Will serve as the primary administrative liaison from SCL to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and many offices at MIT, advancing its mission by overseeing the organization of lab-wide operations, including human resources and finances.
TheSenseable City Lab is a multidisciplinary research group of approximately thirty people investigating how digital technologies are changing the way people live and their implications at the urban scale. The SCL is funded by a consortium of corporate members from across the globe totaling approximately $4M annually. The lab employs designers, planners, engineers, mathematicians, physicists, biologists, and social scientists to conduct research that develops and deploys tools to learn about cities.
REQUIRED: bachelor's degree; at least five years' administration, operations, and/or project/program management experience; experience managing a growing interdisciplinary organization; understanding of academic, industry, and nonprofit environments; and excellent interpersonal, listening, writing, and communication skills for interacting effectively within the SCL and MIT and with partner organizations throughout the world. Seek someone with strong program management, analytical, financial, and problem-solving skills who works strategically, collaboratively, and cooperatively and is able to work effectively with a diverse community. PREFERRED: master's degree in management, finance, human resources, or other relevant field; international experience/global engagement and past evidence of fundraising success; and experience in one or more of the following environments: academia, research, foundation, or nonprofit. Job #20986-10
Some domestic and international travel will be required.
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