EARTH is developing a community-forward online platform to serve as the primary digital entry point for its public, industry-facing, and access-controlled stakeholder engagement. The EARTH Community Forum is envisioned as more than a document repository. It will combine public information, member-restricted resources, curated source materials, discussion spaces, announcements, event follow-up, and user support into a managed digital environment for industry members, academic partners, students, researchers, advisory groups, and approved external stakeholders. The platform is intended to support reliable access control, organized content stewardship, member onboarding, and ongoing interaction across EARTH’s research, workforce development, and technology translation activities.
To address this challenge, a new NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC): Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH) is creating a “sustainable refrigerant lifecycle” to address technical, environmental, and societal challenges facing the HVACR industry. EARTH is a multi-institution, multi-disciplinary team from the University of Kansas, University of Notre Dame, University of Hawai'i, University of Maryland, University of South Dakota, and Lehigh University.
This is a 100%, twelve-month, benefits-eligible, regular appointment that reports directly to the ERC EARTH Administrative Director. Currently, the position is designated as on-campus. Alternative and flexible work schedules will be evaluated as per ERC EARTH policy and center guidelines.
The EARTH Community Forum Administrator is responsible for administering and maintaining EARTH’s external community platform and associated website content operations. The role requires independent judgment, access-control discipline, stakeholder-facing communication, platform administration experience, content workflow management, and the ability to coordinate across academic, industry, public, and administrative functions. The position is operationally autonomous within defined policy boundaries and supports the growth of the platform into a broader community engagement asset.