Project Coordinator (Remote) Jobs

We are looking for a Projects Coordinator to join The Linux Foundation’s Standards PM team to continue to deliver high quality, successful facilitation, coordination, and execution of objectives for our members and the greater open technology community. The Linux Foundation Projects Operations team includes many of the industry’s best community facilitation talent, who work together to support hundreds of the world’s most important open source projects.

The Linux Foundation is a neutral home for many of the world’s most important open source communities, but those communities often need assistance with someone neutral to help mobilize and move objectives forward. We often pick up the tasks and coordination responsibility that either needs neutrality or that no one in the community has the ability to take on given significant responsibilities in the community or at work.

This position is a remote, virtual, position and can be located anywhere in the United States and reports to the Standards Team Lead. In a typical year, overnight and weekend travel to events both domestically and internationally (approximately 1-4 times per year) will be required.

Core Responsibilities

• Facilitate and assist project community on their initiatives, planning, and execution of objectives.
• Work with project leadership to build a balanced budget.
• Track and communicate with new project membership opportunities and assist with onboarding new members
• Work with internal open source experts to assist project communities in understanding best practices.
• Maintain internal system records and data for projects and members.
• Assist project communities build their ecosystem through opportunities for visibility, including planning event talks, tracks, blogs, and/or press releases.
• Align internal stakeholders and delivery teams for a positive community outcome
• Work with project leadership to build agendas for meetings, gather requisite content from participants and take minutes for governance meetings.

Qualifications

• Ability to thrive and effectively deliver in a fast-paced, virtual, ever-changing environment
• 2+ years of experience facilitating groups, planning, prioritizing, executing tasks and communicating results
• Helpful and humble with a hospitality-driven ‘the customer is always right’ mindset
• Incredible attention to detail, organized, and able to ‘Move Quickly’
• Creative, positive energy, self-directed, amiable, and composed under pressure
• Previous experience and/or desire to work remotely; ability to manage tasks, time and schedule with limited supervision
• Prior experience with Google Docs, Salesforce is a plus
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with members, developers, and team members; comfortable interacting with a wide range of community members, from executives to technical programmers

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The Linux Foundation is creating the greatest shared technology investment in history by enabling open source collaboration across companies, developers, and users. We are the organization of choice to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption.

The Linux Foundation is an all-remote workforce that hires world-class talent. We are as passionate about providing a flexible and supportive work culture as we are about open-source software. Collaboration is in our DNA, and we pride ourselves on being able to work closely together while not being tied to an office. We offer exceptional benefits - e.g., top of the line healthcare plans, unlimited PTO, and 100% 401k match up to the IRS-defined limit per year.

The Linux Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.