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Program Coordinator: CU Community Fab Lab Manager (110991)

Employer: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Champaign, IL

Administrative Jobs: Academic Affairs, Research Staff & Technicians, Institutional & Business Affairs, Communications & Marketing, Technology, Analysts & Programming
Employment Type: Full Time
Institution Type: Four-Year Institution

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Program Coordinator: CU Community Fab Lab Manager
Illinois Informatics Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

INTRODUCTORY LANGUAGE:

The Illinois Informatics Institute, Fab Lab, seeks a Program Coordinator: CU Community Fab Lab Manager. This position will manage advanced digital fabrication and rapid prototyping tools as well as assisting open hours lab attendants at the CU Community Fab Lab in the service of support of the Fab Lab core mission: design and fabrication related education, research and art-entrepreneurship. Illinois is a world leader in research, teaching, and public engagement. We serve the state, the nation, and the world by creating knowledge, preparing students for lives of impact, and addressing critical societal needs through the transfer and application of knowledge. Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. Illinois is especially interested in candidates who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and/or service, to the diversity and excellence of the Illinois community.

PRIMARY POSITION FUNCTION/SUMMARY:

Manage advanced digital fabrication and rapid prototyping tools as well as assisting open hours lab attendants at the CU Community Fab Lab in the service of support of the Fab Lab core mission: design and fabrication related education, research and art-entrepreneurship.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Project Management: Implement and oversee programs as directed by the Fab Lab director.

Independently implement programs: collaboratively set goals, metrics for success, and process; set timelines, track progress, and measure success; and report outcomes for all programs of the CU Community Fab Lab. Make recommendations to the Director for major modifications to programs. These programs include outreach, education and services to students, faculty and community.
Create and sustain a positive, problem-solver atmosphere conducive to effective collaboration and sharing. Promote participation in an inclusive, creative community; keep staff and patrons motivated in creating and sharing interesting digital fabrication projects; be a role model by demonstrating empathy, diplomacy and proactive listening.
Supervise hourly staff who primarily work as interns and open lab support. Manage the staffing schedule for open lab hours and workshops; delegate daily operations tasks and keep people informed, accountable and on target. Propose, and collaborate with the director on setting. Open lab hours, policies and procedures.
Handle digital and in-person communications and information organization tasks with a combination of email and phone as well as collaboration and project management platforms.

Education and Training: Support educational programming, including instructional materials and class support

Develop training materials and train lab assistants and high school interns to leverage documentation and local expertise to help them know how to safely, effectively and creatively use — as well as fix — equipment in the lab.
Oversee delivery of workshops as part of program implementation. This includes collaborating on instructor assignments and communicating with instructors on curriculum, audience, scheduling and review. This may include preparation and delivery of one or more workshops open to campus and community members.
Provide feedback on open lab and workshops educational experiences, including defining learning objectives and prerequisites as well as assessing documentation, tool/technique instruction methods, and evaluation models. Contribute to future modifications of those experiences by making recommendations and measuring success.

Facility and Tool Management: Oversee maintenance and documentation of core fabrication areas and systems

Retain a regular presence during daily open hours and classes during afternoons and evenings several days a week to ensure that the lab is fit to serve as a classroom and fabrication education space — keeping it safe, clean, supplied, organized and accessible.
Manage maintenance, repair and upgrades of nearly all fabrication tools in the lab, including 3D printers/scanners, laser engravers, small board electronics, poster plotters, screen printing, casting, molding, milling and textile machines. This includes overseeing and ensuring regular maintenance, scheduling expert repair, and researching solutions as needed.
Manage repair and maintenance records as well as minor tool acquisitions, parts/supplies and inventory.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Education: Bachelor's degree

Preferred Education: B.S., B.A., M.S., or M.A. in a field related to science, technology, engineering or art education

Required Experience: One year of experience supervising a team of staff or instructors. Experience with fabrication tools including one or more of the following: 3D printers, small board electronics, laser engravers, or textile machines. Design experience, or experience teaching others about digital and physical design. Experience with design software such as Adobe Illustrator or Autodesk Meshmixer.

Preferred Experience: Teaching young adults in formal or informal settings

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Successful candidates will process the following: Working knowledge of all Fab Lab operations, history, and mission. Experience with project, personnel and information management systems. Understanding of digital fabrication technologies. Familiarity with project-based curriculum. Any knowledge of information technology, digital arts or STEM. Critical thinking skills with diversity, social inclusion and emotional work.

SALARY AND APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
This is a full-time Civil Service Program Coordinator position appointed on a [12]-month service basis. The expected start date is as soon as possible after the close date. Salary is commensurate with experience.

To Apply:

Applications must be received by March 28, 2019. Apply for this position using the “Apply for Position” button below. If you have not applied before, you must create your candidate profile at http://jobs.illinois.edu. If you already have a profile, you will be redirected to that existing profile via email notification. To complete the application process:

Step 1) Submit the Staff Vacancy Application.

Step 2) Submit the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability forms.

Step 3) Upload your cover letter, resume (months and years of employment must be included), and academic credentials (unofficial transcripts or diploma may be acceptable) and names/contact information for three references.

In order to be considered as a transfer candidate, you must apply for this position using the “Apply for Position” button below. Applications not submitted through this website will not be considered. For further information about this specific position, contact Candy Edwards cledward@illinois.edu or 217 244-3809. For questions about the application process, please contact 217-333-2137.

The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer.

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.

College Name or Administrative Unit:Illinois Informatics Institute Category:2-Administrative Title:Program Coordinator: CU Community Fab Lab Manager (110991) Open Date:03/14/2019 Close Date:03/28/2019 Organization Name:FabLab

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Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.

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Undergraduate Education

The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.

Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.

The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.

Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.

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As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.

How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?

Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.

Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.

Illinois is the place where consensus is forged by discourse and where everyone’s contributions are recognized: significant contributions that elevate us because they are informed and enhanced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, physical ability, religion, class, and national origin. We are enriched by these perspectives, and we are united by the very discourse that brings these views together.

It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.

It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.

Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.

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