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Community Liason

Overview#

Project Nebula is an initiative to build tools that help students. Keeping in touch with other students is an important part of that! A community liaison serves as a bridge from the wider community to Project Nebula’s developers by talking to other students.

What We Need#

A community liaison will need to be someone willing to talk to people and make connections with students of all majors to understand their needs.

  • We’re looking for someone with the following:
  • Passion for helping students and understanding what issues they regularly face
  • A genuine investment in students’ well-being
  • Values a diversity of perspectives and is able to acknowledge and reach out to underrepresented groups
  • Able to take away meaningful conclusions from 1-on-1 student interactions for the benefit of the greater student body

Any of these would additionally help:

  • Having a well-sized social media presence
  • Experience organizing events
  • Experience with social media outreach
  • Email etiquette
  • Qualitative research skills
  • Knowing a lot of people

We’re all students, so we understand that someone won’t be an expert in anything. If you don’t have all the skills, you will most certainly learn as a part of the Project Nebula team!

What You'll Do#

As a community liaison, you’ll keep in touch with people outside of the Project Nebula team. You’ll act as a representative for Project Nebula and stay engaged with what’s going on in the student body.

Responsibilities:

  • Communicating with leadership about initiatives
  • Informing project teams about student issues
  • Hosting small-scale meet-ups or public events to engage with the community
  • Reaching out to other student organizations to find unique opportunities for collaboration

What you’ll do on a regular basis:

  • Have conversations with students (mostly virtually, but also offline)
  • Keep track of what issues are most important to students
  • Formally and informally poll the UT Dallas community
  • Collaborate with our Head of Marketing
  • Advocate for Project Nebula in relevant online community spaces (for example, sharing links to the UTD Survival Guide on Reddit in a non-spammy way)

Expect to spend 2-4 hours/week in this role.

What You'll Learn#

You’ll primarily get experience doing community outreach and effectively communicating stakeholders’ concerns. You’ll learn how to work with technical stakeholders and communicate the needs of a layperson to others on a team.