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Job Opening | Research Operations Manager – The Membership Puzzle Project

This position would begin October 1, 2018.

We’re eager to grow our team with an excellent operations-oriented person who can help us grow the actionability of our work well beyond the US.

If you’re detail-obsessed and highly collaborative–and can also speak publicly about our research questions and findings–the research operations manager role could be a good fit for you. This will be a full-time, grant-funded role for a person who will work from our office at NYU journalism school from October 2018 to April 2020. Regular domestic and international travel to newsrooms and journalism conferences is required.

Our operations manager will study and advise news organizations that are pursuing interactive forms of audience engagement, with The Correspondent as our primary newsroom partner. If you’re a star with budget management who knows how to research organizations and make recommendations to teammates, please read on.

Also, to give some insight into what we’re up to this year, we have four key research priorities, in addition to our work with the Join the Beat community. With our team we want to:

  • Boost understanding of the differences between subscription and membership models;
  • Show substantive non-monetary ways that people can participate in news;
  • Find approaches to increased financial inclusion and equitable representation; and
  • Highlight examples of “unsuccessful membership tries” that may have been ahead of their time–but have valuable ideas to offer.

Source: Job Opening: Research Operations Manager | The Membership Puzzle Project