JMS

A spate of cool job opportunities have popped onto the radar in the last couple weeks. Let me know if you’re interested and I’ll put in a good word!

• Media Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is undertaking a project to comprehensively study the new/citizen/social media landscape, including reflection on its reach, implications, impact, and ecosystem, and charting an agenda for research and action moving forward.

This is a big opportunity for someone. Berkman is bursting at the seams with big ideas, important projects and interesting people, and this is a new Fellow position at the nexus of the citizen/social/public media scene. You’ll be rubbing elbows with fellow Fellows like Dave Weinberg, Doc Searls, Dan Gillmor, and Ethan Zuckerman among many others, and an all-star faculty and staff. Plus PRX is down the street and ready to scheme on all sorts of things.

• Bay Area Business Development Director for Miro

  The job isn’t posted on their site yet but the Participatory Culture Foundation is looking for a bizdev director. PCF is an up-and-coming nonprofit tech group behind Miro, the free open source video player that used to be called the Democracy Player. It’s a great tool and the team is sharp and trying to do something ambitious.

  We are a non-profit (like mozilla) and are looking for someone who is tech-savvy, passionate about our mission, and good at building relationships. There’s an opportunity to join and help build a very exciting organization that could change the face of mass media.

• American Archive 1.0 Initiative Manager
  

  The American Archive is another big idea that is just taking shape, overlaps in interesting ways with the Digital Distribution Consortium, and is gaining momentum as a possible system-wide investment.

  American Archive 1.0 will serve the American public by preserving, exhibiting, and sharing the enduring programming produced and distributed by the public broadcasting system. The Archive will make use of emerging technologies to allow access to this content by educational and cultural institutions, public broadcasting stations, and the general public.

  CPB seeks an Initiative Manager to consult with key stakeholders within the public broadcasting system to determine and build consensus for the overall purpose of American Archive 1.0. Tactically, the Initiative Manager will consult with experts within and without the public broadcasting system to develop a blueprint for the implementation of American Archive 1.0.

• Program Officer, General Program, MacArthur Foundation

  MacFound is into all sorts of important and exciting things, which I would say even if we weren’t already a grantee. Plus this job would get you working alongside the one and only John Bracken.

  This position is currently focused on implementing grantmaking initiatives in three areas – the New Ideas Initiative, Arts and Culture in Chicago, and grants to effective and creative smaller institutions. The Foundation is looking for someone with diverse professional experience, and the ability and willingness to adapt to shifting priorities and responsibilities.

  The New Ideas Initiative was launched in 2005, by the Trustees and President of the Foundation, to actively identify emerging issues important to society where the Foundation may make a catalytic investment in the early stages.