Center for Open Science is looking for a Founding Program Manager for a Metascience Alliance 

The Center for Open Science is seeking an independent contractor with interest and expertise in metascience and community building to co-create a Metascience Alliance.

The Alliance will include a diverse community of researchers, advocates, policymakers, funders, entrepreneurs, and others interested in experimentation, evaluation, and innovation on the practice of science to improve research quality and accelerate progress.

COS is looking for an entrepreneurial Founding Program Manager to explore the value, viability, and sustainability of a global Metascience Alliance. This role is ideal for an experienced metascience researcher or practitioner to develop a strong community of practice across sectors.

Context

Science as a social system is reluctant to change. There is vast unexplored space in how science could be conducted that might unlock incremental to orders-of-magnitude improvements in the pace of discovery.

Metascience assesses the current state of inefficiencies, imagines new designs and practices, conducts trials of potential solutions, and starts and scales alternatives to the social systems of science. Metascience aspires to dramatically accelerate progress. Metascience needs venues to cultivate divergent ideas, create weak ties across disciplinary and sector silos, foster career pathways for budding metascientists, and to form and launch research and entrepreneurial collaborations.

A Metascience Alliance could support these objectives, and be a trusted third party for metascience aligned organizations and individuals. 

Description of Service

• The independent contractor will coordinate and lead a community-led process to define and refine the objectives for a Metascience Alliance, develop a strategy to enact the Alliance, implement the Alliance for a two-year pilot phase, and develop a sustainability plan if the Alliance shows promise in supporting this community of practice.

• This contract position is expected to last for two years, with a one year initial commitment and second year pending demonstrated progress on achieving the objectives. We expect the contract to be $150,000 per year, paid in quarterly installments. We anticipate that achievement of the objectives will require 40 hours per week of effort for 48 weeks per year.

• The Center for Open Science (COS) is financially sponsoring the two year pilot phase. The position is conceived as an independent contractor so that the development of the governance, mission, strategy, and sustainability of the Metascience Alliance can be designed for whatever is best for the metascience community. For example, the most sensible model might involve the Alliance becoming an independent non-profit, or an initiative with rotating operational responsibility across participating organizations. The purpose of this contract position is to explore how best an Alliance can support the metascience community.

For full details including required skills and how to apply, see the COS website here.