MiddCORE at Middlebury College

Research Scientist

• The CNS Nonproliferation Education Program is seeking one Graduate Research Assistant to support its education and outreach activities.
• The GRA will work closely with CNS Education Program staff to help coordinate and implement a range of education initiatives, including: Critical Issues Forum (CIF) – a nonproliferation and disarmament education program for high school students, Summer Undergraduate Internship Program, Other education and outreach projects related to nonproliferation and disarmament.
• This position primarily involves administrative and logistical support for education programs, with potential opportunities for research related to nonproliferation and disarmament education.
• We are especially interested in candidates who are enthusiastic about engaging younger generations—high school and college students—in disarmament and nonproliferation education.

Graduate Research Assistant, CNS Education Program

Operations

• Assist in the coordination and monitoring of key operational processes, such as IT change management, project timelines, and annual budget planning cycles.
• Manage relationships with vendors and external service providers and facilitate the contract lifecycle.
• Coordinate and track financial and business activities for the ITS department, including processing invoices, purchase orders, expense reports, and reconciling monthly budget reports.
• Provide comprehensive, confidential administrative support to members of the Office of the CIO, including managing calendars, handling correspondence, preparing presentation materials, and organizing logistics for meetings and events.
• Coordinate various administrative activities for the ITS leadership team, including scheduling and preparing materials for director-level meetings and tracking follow-up actions and decisions.
• Act as an administrative point of contact and liaison between the Office of the CIO, other campus departments, vendors, external partners, and key stakeholders.
• Maintain and organize confidential departmental financial records, budget control, and internal bookkeeping, including files, contracts, official records, and organizational documents, ensuring easy retrieval. Work with Middlebury’s finance department to ensure proper allocation, financial reporting, and alignment with institutional policies.
• Other duties, as may be assigned from time to time.

IT Operations Coordinator

Full-stack Engineer

• Lead all aspects of the software development life-cycle from conception to deployment: analysis, architecture and design, development and programming, integration, testing, deployment, and maintenance of new and existing solutions to ensure they fit within the ITS mission and values, meet the community's need, and drive impact across the institution.
• Direct processes, on behalf of business partners, using Middlebury's enterprise database systems and applications to evaluate, analyze, and document business activities and workflows through a technical lens, in order to achieve objectives, efficiencies, innovation, and value.
• Architect solutions, using appropriate software architecture design patterns, to produce high-quality, maintainable code and supporting infrastructure.
• Leads the deployment and operation of enterprise software applications, including infrastructure capacity planning, configuring cloud-and on-premises infrastructure, designing and configuring continuous integration and related application deployment flows, setup and utilization of operational monitoring systems to regularly identify and improve sub-optimal application performance.
• Develop Quality Assurance (QA) documentation and testing plans, as well as participate in testing to ensure compliance with application standards and delivery of the highest quality solution.
• Ensure high availability of services as well as reduce the risk of data breaches by applying patches and updates to applications in a timely fashion and implementing industry best practices in resiliency, security, data integrity, accessibility, and additional compliance guidelines.
• Model software development best practices, promote knowledge sharing, provide technical leadership on projects, coaching, mentoring, and training to fellow team members.
• Monitor and analyze current and emerging trends, technologies and developments to help guide the planning and execution of services and initiatives. Must demonstrate a drive and proficiency for learning new technologies and approaches.

Graduate Research Assistant, CNS Education Program

IT Operations Coordinator

Enterprise Full-Stack Developer