Chief of Staff (Remote)

Are you comfortable wearing many hats in a wide-ranging role? Can you work across mediums and channels, from writing to audio to virtual and in-person events? Can you manage both the creative and operational sides of a growing platform?

Academic Intelligence is home to news and information about the future of higher education and work led by journalist and New York Times bestselling author, Jeff Selingo. It produces newsletters, podcasts, events (both virtual and in-person), and research papers.

As we look to build out a collective for other authors and subject-matter experts in the field, we’re looking for a part-time Chief of Staff to join our team.

The Chief of Staff will help oversee various content projects from development through successful execution and assist in overseeing daily operations from managing podcasts to interacting with clients.

What are we looking for in this role?

• A project manager who can act like an air-traffic controller, coordinating multiple projects by overseeing resources to deliver projects on-time, within scope, and within budget.
• Being a point-of-contact for multiple contractors to ensure business is running smoothly across divisions, with no delays or confusion.
• Implementing a project management/planning tool, along with experience using and coordinating the tool with teammates to ensure resource availability and to develop detailed project plans to track key milestones.
• Someone skilled at client communications, who ideally can lead client calls, develop client proposals and contracts, and receive and act on feedback throughout a project. Familiarity with HubSpot a plus.
• Familiarity with budgeting and working closely with firm leadership to determine staffing needs and expected timelines to provide clients with realistic expectations.
• Strategic thinker to identify opportunities to innovate and improve current processes for optimized efficiency and productivity.
• Oversee daily operations, performing an array of tasks and contributing to strategy as needed, from developing approaches to build and engage the audience for newsletters to helping coordinate the Future U. (podcast) campus tour in the winter/spring of 2022. 
• A self-starter with the ability to work independently under tight deadlines on multiple projects.
• Strong interpersonal skills.

The ideal candidate will have lots of engaging content to work with, including Next, a biweekly newsletter that looks at what’s ahead for higher education, with more than 50,000 subscribers via email and LinkedIn; Future U., a top higher education podcast with more than 40,000 downloads a season that is about to go on a campus tour; and other reporting projects related to the future of education and work, such as research papers and books.

This position will report directly to the top editor. It will start as a part-time role but could turn into a full-time role. Academic Intelligence is based in Washington, D.C., but the successful candidate for this position can work from anywhere in the U.S.