Job: Director for Strategic Initiatives, MIT Press

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DIRECTOR FOR STRATEGIC INITIATIVES, MIT Press, to operationalize key developments within the Press’s strategic plan, helping establish a foundation for ongoing growth and innovation by bridging the vision for the business with its operational implementation. Will help build the Press’s capacity for digital innovation. A primary objective will be to obtain external funding to support the creation of a Publishing Futures Lab at the Press, a new model for incubating and insourcing digital innovation within a nonprofit publisher. Key responsibilities include grant writing and project proposal and development, establishing technical capacity for open source alternatives, building out an author services model across workflow, and helping grow a technology-centric experimental culture at the Press.

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