Project Manager, Chicago Urban Heritage Project

University of Chicago; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 34,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

The University of Chicago is seeking a part-time Project Manager to provide technical leadership for the Chicago Urban Heritage Project (CUHP). The PM will oversee day‑to‑day management, contribute to securing external funding, and supervise undergraduate researchers and student project managers.

Responsibilities include research design, data workflows, and coordinating with the Library's Center for Digital Scholarship. This role emphasizes GIScience, data quality, and public dissemination.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Knowledge and skills developed through work experience.
• Certifications: ---

Responsibilities

• Oversee the Chicago Urban Heritage Project research design and execution.
• Coordinate student RA hours and scheduling.
• Develop public-facing web tools and GIS workflows for CUHP.

Skills

Project management

Student support

Research coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Job description

Department

College Chicago Studies & Experiential Learning

About the Department

Chicago Studies supports academically rich collaborations between instructors, students, and academic and community partners to leverage Chicago as an illuminating locus for study. In so doing, it extends the University of Chicago's reputation as a premiere space for place-based, interdisciplinary urban studies. As one of the offices that support teaching and research innovation across the undergraduate College, Chicago Studies has historically served as a resourcing platform and networking space for course instructors interested in teaching about and with the city. More recently, Chicago Studies has offered its own curricular, undergraduate research, and para-curricular opportunities in response to growing interest from students and collaborating academic units, including the Chicago Urban Heritage Project.

Job Summary

The part‑time Project Manager (PM) provides technical expertise for day‑to‑day management of the Chicago Urban Heritage Project (CUHP). A collaboration between Chicago Studies and the Center for Digital Scholarship at the University of Chicago Library, this initiative has garnered significant interest from student researchers, instructors, and citywide partners. In addition to overseeing the current project and its publication, the PM will contribute to efforts to secure external funding for its regional expansion.

Responsibilities

• Manages Chicago Urban Heritage Project, overseeing research design and implementation, student RA hours and scheduling, and project exhibition.


• Advances computer vision, machine learning, and GeoAI research to extract geospatial data from scanned historical maps, and remains in conversation with other research leaders in the field.


• Designs and develops web-based, publicly-accessible research tools leveraging UChicago AI resources, such as Claude Enterprise and PhoenixAI, to streamline undergraduate researchers' GIScience workflows to process datasets derived from the open-source CUHP GeoAI pipeline.


• Maintains strict data quality standards to ensure that CUHP produces a cohesive dataset spanning more than one million building entries that is legible to the general public while also useful for geospatial analysis by interdisciplinary researchers.


• Presents project progress at third-party events and conferences, and continues to publish findings in peer-reviewed academic journals.


• Hires, trains, and supervises undergraduate research assistants and on-campus student project manager(s) to implement an educational research cohort that provides students with hands‑on GIS and applied data science experiences.


• Serves as liaison to UChicago Library's Center for Digital Scholarship, a key partner in CUHP's design, execution, publication, and expansion.


• Supervises the management, training, and supervision of student researchers associated with the Chicago Urban Heritage Project, including ongoing participation in weekly team meetings and project Slack channel.


• Develops student-, instructor-, and community-facing programming to expand recruitment, participation, and use of datasets.


• When requested, delivers technical demonstrations of project components and findings in support of undergraduate courses and promotes broader aims of Chicago Studies and its partners.


• Collaborates with the Center for Digital Scholarship and other project partners to secure external grant funding for extension of this research initiative.


• Helps coordinate events, researches logistics, assists with planning and preparing presentations, event outreach, and post-event write ups.


• May assist with other administrative projects as needed and acquire higher level guidance and skills.


• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.


• Work Experience: Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through


• Certifications: ---

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience: Background working with students and academic appointees, including faculty, instructors, and postdocs.


• Project management experience.

Working Conditions

This is a part‑time position of approximately 19 hours per week.

Application Documents

Resume/CV (required)

The University of Chicago uses AI‑assisted tools to streamline and augment some recruitment processes; however, AI is not used to make hiring decisions.

Job Family

Administration & Management

Role Impact

Individual Contributor

Scheduled Weekly Hours

19.5

Drug Test Required

No

Health Screen Required

No

Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required

No

Pay Rate Type

Hourly

FLSA Status

Non‑Exempt

Pay Range

$25.00 - $33.00 The included pay rate or range represents the University's good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.