Electromagnetic Interactions Group (EMI) Project Administrator

Details

Posted: 04-Mar-24

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Type: Full-time

Salary: Open

Categories:

Administrative/Support
Staff/Administrative

Internal Number: 22453

Job Description

ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS GROUP (EMI) PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR, Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS), to oversee and manage--under the overall guidance of the senior administrator--the day-to-day administrative operations of the EMI group and different aspects of grant pre-and post-award activities. EMI is leading a major particle physics experiment on the International Space Station, known as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS). Will have full responsibility for third-party team accounts, monthly invoice review and payments, requesting wire transfers, managing purchase orders, procuring equipment and services from U.S. vendors that may require export control, monitoring discretionary funds, organizing local and international travel, and event planning; attend daily Zoom AMS operations meetings held at CERN (11:00 A.M. local time); maintains all office equipment including supplies; and play an active and integral role in preparing three-year budget proposals and annual progress reports.
The EMI group is led by MIT Professor Samuel Ting, Nobel Laureate in Physics. AMS is an international collaboration involving fifteen countries. The AMS detector was launched by NASA to the International Space Station in 2011 and since then has continuously collected data from the far reaches of space in order to search for an understanding of dark matter, the existence of antimatter, the origin and properties of primordial cosmic rays, and new and unpredicted physics and astrophysics phenomena.
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Job Requirements

REQUIRED: bachelor's degree in particle physics; three years of administrative, operations, and/or project/program management experience in a professional setting; and English language fluency. PREFERRED: advanced degree, experience working in a university or research setting, working knowledge of French, and a valid driver's license. Job #22453-8
Salary range: $71,175- 95,188, depending on experience.
This position is 100% on-campus with no possibility for a regular hybrid schedule.
3/2/23