Project Manager, Chicago Urban Heritage Project

University of Chicago; United States; Hybrid; USD 37,000 - 61,000; Part time

Job summary

University of Chicago invites applications for a part-time Project Manager to lead the Chicago Urban Heritage Project (CUHP). The PM will coordinate research design, manage student researchers, and contribute to public-facing tools and publications, in collaboration with Chicago Studies and the Library's Center for Digital Scholarship.

Ideal candidates have a college degree and up to two years of related experience, with strong project management, communication, and GIS/Data Science skills.

Qualifications

• Education: college or university degree required.
• Work Experience: less than 2 years in a related job discipline.
• Certifications: —

Responsibilities

• Manages Chicago Urban Heritage Project, oversees 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.
• Designs and develops web-based, publicly-accessible research tools leveraging UChicago AI resources to streamline undergraduate researchers’ GIScience workflows.
• Maintains data quality standards for a cohesive dataset with over one million building entries.
• Presents project progress at events and conferences and publishes findings in peer-reviewed journals.
• Hires, trains, and supervises undergraduate research assistants and on-campus student project managers.
• Serves as liaison to UChicago Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship.
• Oversees training and supervision of student researchers and coordinates weekly meetings and Slack activity.
• Develops programming for broader recruitment and use of datasets.
• Delivers technical demonstrations to support courses and broader aims of Chicago Studies.
• Collaborates to secure external grant funding for project extension.
• Assists with logistics for events and post-event write ups.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Skills

Project management

Student supervision

Research coordination

Communication

Education

College or university degree

Tools

GIS software

GeoAI

Claude Enterprise

PhoenixAI

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 promote 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 < 2 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
• Certifications: ---

Preferred Qualifications

• Background working with students and academic appointees, including faculty, instructors, and postdocs.
• Project management experience.
• Working with students and academic appointees, including faculty, instructors, and postdocs.

Working Conditions

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

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

Pay Range

• Hourly
• 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.

Benefits

Eligible: This position is not eligible for benefits.

Compliance

All offers of employment are contingent upon a background check that includes a review of conviction history. A conviction does not automatically preclude University employment. Rather, the University considers conviction information on a case-by-case basis and assesses the nature of the offense, the circumstances surrounding it, the proximity in time of the conviction, and its relevance to the position.

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