Manager, Ground Connections
Job Description
How to Apply
A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. Your cover letter should include salary requirements, address your specific interest in the position, and outline experience that directly relates to the job responsibilities.
Job Summary
The Digital Media Commons (DMC) in the James and Anne Duderstadt Center (DC) at the University of Michigan (U-M) is looking for a qualified services manager who will coordinate services for the Ground Connections (GC) team. If chosen, you will oversee operations of four labs (Groundworks, Design Labs 1 & 2, and Fabrication Underground) including planning and development, budgets, procedures, and personnel management. You will report to the Chief Operating Officer of the Duderstadt Center. This is considered a hybrid onsite/work from home position at the Duderstadt Center on U-M's North Campus in Ann Arbor.
Who We Are
About Us
The DMC provides the U-M community with access to evolving technologies supported by experienced and passionate staff. We enable new ways to research, teach, learn, create, and explore in a student-centric environment that is interdisciplinary, inclusive, collaborative, and that promotes climate and social justice. The DMC's Ground Connections team supports multidisciplinary learning and brings students from across the university together to collaborate, design, fabricate, and learn.
Why Work at Michigan?
From great healthcare and retirement benefits to on-site wellness programs, we provide resources to support you and your family's health and happiness. For details, see http://benefits.umich.edu/.
Responsibilities*
Required Qualifications*
Work Locations
This position is classified as hybrid with work on campus a minimum of 3 days per week.
Modes of Work
The work requirements allow both onsite and offsite work and an employee has an expected recurring onsite presence. On occasion, the employee may be required and must be available to work onsite more frequently if necessitated by unit leadership or their designee and/or the job requirements.
Additional Information
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Learning and working in environments designed for equity and inclusivity are necessary for the U-M community to make progress on solving the problems that matter most to society. In addition to collaborating with faculty and staff on projects that explicitly focus on DEI, the Digital Media Commons uses inclusive design processes in all our work. To read more about our diversity activities, see our DEI plan here: http://www.dc.umich.edu/resources/DEI
Background Screening
The University of Michigan conducts background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer and may use a third-party administrator to conduct background checks. Background checks will be performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Application Deadline
Job openings are posted for at least seven calendar days. This job may be removed from posting boards and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended
Decision Making Process
Applications will be reviewed as received throughout the posting period and continue until the position is filled.
U-M EEO/AA Statement
The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
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