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CSCCE QSS Session | Project managing timelines and workflows across your team and/or community

Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90-minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion. This quarter, our speakers will be talking about the temporal aspects of community management: Project managing timelines and workflows across your team and/or community.

The successful, on-time delivery of community projects and activities regularly requires community managers to use project management tools and strategies to coordinate work. In this Quarterly Skills Share session, we’ll discuss tools and tactics for managing projects both within a staff team and across a community of volunteers, with a particular emphasis on time-dependent, deadline-driven workflows. This session will draw on themes from all of the multi-week courses in CSCCE’s Community Manager Certification Program, connecting the dots between effective content and communication, engagement strategy, project management, and documentation.

Speakers

  • Pooneh Sabouri, Project Manager for STEP UP, Florida International University
  • Jody Peters, Community Manager for the Ecological Forecasting Initiative, University of Notre Dame
  • Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal, Research Software Engineer, Imperial College London

This is an invitation-only event.

CSCCE QSS Session | Guiding your community members towards a shared purpose

Over the lifetime of a community, there are often transitional moments when, as community manager, you might need to re-assess or re-align members around your community’s shared purpose. In this Quarterly Skills Share session, we’ll discuss ways of synthesizing feedback into meaningful content and programming, facilitating generative conversations through scaffolded activities, and co-creating new materials with and for your members. This session will draw on themes from the Content Design (CODE) course, as well as the Creating core values Mini-workshop, which we will summarize at the beginning of the session.

Speakers:

  • Brielle Bennett, Senior Program Specialist, Ethics and Organizational Advancement, American Geophysical Union
  • Curtis Sharma, Project Manager/Community Manager, 4TU.ResearchData
  • Zoë Leanza, Communications Manager, Sage Bionetworks

About Quarterly Skills Share sessions

Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90-minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion.

This is an invitation-only event.

CSCCE QSS Session | Behind the scenes of community activities: Planning, managing, and delivering complex projects

Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90-minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion.

For our Q2 2025 Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) session, we’ll be focusing on various project management skills, processes, and tools that support community activities. We’ll consider what it means to effectively project manage complex community activities that require contributions from both your internal staff team and external stakeholders and volunteers. Then we’ll discuss some of the tech tools that you can use to support your project management work. And finally, we’ll explore a case study together; what it was like to develop and deliver an in-person event co-created with community members.

This is an invitation-only event.

Find out more about the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program.

CSCCE QSS Session | Co-creating community outputs and activities with your members

Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90 minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion.

In this session, we’ll discuss ways of involving your community members in co-creating resources, documentation, projects, and scaffolding. We’ll consider how to maintain living documents (including managing information overload and obsolescence), how to curate and edit content contributed by multiple different authors, and how to engage members of a community in collaborative problem-solving. Our presenters will each share case studies of how they have coordinated community co-creation, including the pitfalls they’ve encountered along the way.

This is an invitation-only event.

Find out more about the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program.

CSCCE QSS Session | Facilitating stakeholder meetings

Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90 minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion.

This quarter, our speakers will be focusing on facilitating stakeholder meetings. As a community manager, you may frequently find yourself convening meetings vital to engaging key stakeholders around the mission and goals of your community. This might include scientific steering committee meetings, governance meetings, strategy meetings, or other specialized gatherings. In this Quarterly Skills Share session, we will consider how to facilitate these meetings so that they are effective and engaging, with speakers sharing examples from their own work. 

This is an invitation-only event.

Find out more about the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program.

CSCCE QSS Session | Coordinating connections: how do we tactically strengthen relationships and strategic partnerships?

Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90 minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion.

This quarter, our speakers will be talking about tactics for strengthening relationships with community members and strategic partnerships with stakeholders. They will share which tactics have worked for them and those that did not work so well, along with lessons learned. Participants will have the opportunity to share their own tactics, and we will explore new ideas together on how to coordinate connections within and across communities.

This is an invitation-only event.

Find out more about the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program.

QSS Session: Navigating community management in a large, complex organization

Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90-minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion.

This quarter, our speakers will be talking about navigating community management in a large, complex organization, including negotiating more recognition of the role of community management at an organizational level.

This is a private event.

Find out more about the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program.