Production Manager

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Management

· Coordinate interactions between development team and content experts, guiding the initial design of all information products. Work with team to develop comprehensive workflow processes for each product that resolves multi-project conflicts, and ensures individual responsibilities are clearly assigned. Work with content experts to reduce scope of projects to resolve resource constraints.

· Organize and facilitate frequent sprint planning sessions (where development work is discussed and prioritized) as well as estimation and retrospective session.

Communication

·  Design ongoing tools for audience analysis, using a combination of technology and instructional design, as well as more conventional survey methods.

·  Based on audience analysis and formative evaluation, refine and formalize the journalistic style, information design and marketing strategy of The Data Center’s information products.

Data Analysis

·  Assist in the collection, processing, and analyzing of data sets from a wide array of sources for inclusion in products and publications.

Production

·  Manage the final production steps of all The Data Center’s information products including comprehensive editing that ensures products can withstand detailed audience scrutiny.

·  Nimbly guide all products through final promotion steps with responsiveness to sudden news events.

Continuous Quality Improvement

·  Execute ongoing formative evaluation tools of information products, in the form of user testing, systematic server log analysis, and usability heuristics.

·  Ensure project documentation and artifacts are complete, current, and stored appropriately with all projects to have an appropriate level of developmental/technical documentation.

·  Maintain thorough working knowledge of current best-practices in electronic communities, web site usability, information architecture, human factors engineering, information design, and digital divide issues.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree minimum with demonstrated confidence working with PhD level content experts.
• Experience publishing highly rigorous research as well as the ability to manage multiple publications in an agile environment.
• 3 years experience in production management on data analysis and information design projects. Formal training in Project Management a plus.
• Ability to work closely with stakeholders to distill use cases, personas, needs, desires.
• Ability to work with content experts to formalize user stories from strategic visions.
• Demonstrated ability to design new media products in such a way that technology serves (rather than drives) functionality, and functionality is closely matched to audience needs.
• Demonstrated ability in communications, oral and written.
• Demonstrated very strong attention to detail (specifically mathematical), strong data analysis skills, strong information design skills, and excellent proofreading skills.
• Demonstrated competencies in or demonstrated ability to quickly learn: Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; Adobe Acrobat, InDesign, Photoshop, and WordPress; Google office products
• Must reside in the greater New Orleans area or Southeast Louisiana, and be available to attend frequent in-person meetings.
• No outside business interests that may conflict with the organization’s goals and objectives and not explicitly approved by the Executive Director.

COMPENSATION AND APPLICATION PROCESS

Salary will be commensurate with the candidate’s qualifications and experience. Applicants should email a full resume complete with current software competencies, and names and contact information for three professional references, plus a cover letter describing career goals to info@datacenterresearch.org. Please state “Production Manager” as the subject line, by January 15, 2016. Only applicants meeting minimum qualifications for the position will be considered. No phone calls please. Nonprofit Knowledge Works is an equal opportunity employer.

At the end of the day, what we are looking for is someone who is upbeat and passionate about systemic changes in Southeast Louisiana. The Data Center deals with a variety of projects that require interaction with many different tools and lots of collaboration.  It’s a small work environment with a culture of excellence, so being able to put all hands on deck to reach a common goal and being able to adapt are both important.

Working for The Data Center is an exciting prospect. Our impact far outweighs the size of our team, and we’re always striving to do more