About the Internet Society Foundation
The Internet Society (ISOC) supports and promotes the development of the Internet as a global technical infrastructure, a resource to enrich people’s lives, and a force for good in society. Our work aligns with our goals for the Internet to be open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy. We seek collaboration with all who share these goals.
Together, we focus on building and supporting the communities that make the Internet work; advancing the development and application of Internet infrastructure, technologies, and open standards; and advocating for policy that is consistent with our view of the Internet.
The Internet Society Foundation (Foundation) is a newly formed, non-profit organization that works in concert with the Internet Society. It exists to demonstrate and support the positive difference the Internet can make to people everywhere and promote the development of the Internet as a global technical infrastructure, a resource to enrich people’s lives, and a force for good in society.
The Foundation is committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion, where all individuals are valued for their distinct contributions. Our people are the most valuable strengths we have. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent that our staff invests in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and the Foundation’s achievements.
About the position
The Project and Communications Manager has a team-player mentality that’s equal parts creative, well-organized, collaborative, and will work with cross-functional, globally distributed teams to guide assigned projects from inception to completion. The Project and Communications Manager will:
- Design and execute communications plans for assigned programs (including empowerment programs) to increase awareness, drive engagement, and showcase impact to support fundraising.
- Develop and apply project management tools, techniques, and processes to facilitate planning for assigned projects across the Foundation, drive successful execution of tasks and deliverables in a matrix environment, and effectively manage competing priorities and deadlines.
- Update, maintain and manage the Foundation’s (Team) Performance Dashboard.
- Prepare presentations and status reports.
Location
Remote
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Act as primary point of contact and liaison for assigned projects.
- Manage assigned projects according to the organizational standards and industry best practices.
- Create and manage project work plans, priorities, dashboards and schedules in Smartsheet, our standardized project management software.
- Develop comprehensive monitoring of project scope, cost, schedule, and performance, present status updates and actionable reports to leadership
- Proactively identify risks, issues, and dependencies; recommend contingency plans and solutions to remove barriers.
- Facilitate collaboration across teams for project success.
Communications
- Act as primary point of contact and liaison for assigned communications and content.
- Develop and implement communications strategies for empowerment programs and other assigned projects/programs.
- In support of the strategies ensure timely and effective content planning, creation, review, publishing, maintenance, and archiving.
- Collaborate closely with Content and Marketing communications (CMC) team to identify relevant audiences, content format and channels, to agree on content priorities, to ensure alignment with brand and style guidelines.
- Work with the Collaborative Systems team to identify how to make the best use of technology to produce and manage content.
- Facilitate collaboration across teams on communications assignments.
Other
- Prepare presentations and reports as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or experience in a relevant field such as journalism, publishing, operations management
- 3 to 6 years relevant experience
- Project management experience
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- People-centric management skills and an ability to work with others collaboratively to get things done
- Ability to produce quality materials with attention to detail
- Ability to identify, synthesize, consolidate, and communicate requirements clearly
- Strong word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation skills with the ability to learn how to use new platforms
- Experience with Zoom, Box, Slack, and Smartsheet
- Passionate about telling stories that illustrate impact on people’s lives
- Commitment to the organization’s mission, values and objectives
- Experience working remotely with a globally distributed workforce and ability to work across time zone
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact positively in a multicultural and multidisciplinary environment
- Ability to travel as needed and when permitted
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills in English is required. Additional languages such as Spanish or French will be considered a plus.
- Communicate in a culturally appropriate and inclusive manner.
- Exceptionally motivated, organized and detail oriented.
- Ability to travel as needed.
- Passion for, and demonstrated commitment to, a more accessible and trustworthy Internet for all.
What You’ll Love About Us
- Make an Impact. We have an exciting vision and mission to bring the internet to everyone!
- Great Company Culture: We are a global team and live our values of collaboration, inclusion, respect, people and passion in all of our HR programs including our new recognition program!
- Rest and Relaxation. Generous paid time off and paid public holidays.
- Benefits. Based on local in-country guidelines.
- Give back. Get paid to volunteer in your community!
- Professional Development and Educational Benefits. Annual company contribution towards professional development or higher education.
- Flexible Work Models. Flexible work-from-home option for most locations.
Compensation and benefits for this position will be paid in local currency and based on the country and geographic location’s local salary and benefits market data for the position. Exact pay will be based on factors including but not limited to relevant qualifications, experience, geographic location, education, business and organizational needs.
The Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, age, disability, religion, national origin, color or any other protected class. Compensation and benefit package for this position will be competitively commensurate with the successful applicant’s qualifications. Applications will be evaluated until the position has been filled. The list of applicants will not be posted publicly and will be reviewed in confidence by members of the evaluation committee.