North American Business Manager

World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the leading Web standards organization, seeks a Business Manager with broad experience in financial and legal matters within complex technical organizations. The position reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer, and supports W3C's North American operation, which is headquartered at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The successful candidate will work closely with W3C's 18 other offices around the world.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, planning and reporting on the W3C's finances; handling contractual relationships; supporting membership development; coordinating legal matters, policies and procedures; and working on special projects. The Business Manager will have input to the strategic direction of the Consortium and will be expected to develop ideas to improve the business of developing standards at W3C.

The Business Manager must possess strong organizational, written and oral (English) communications skills, and have the ability to communicate and work effectively with a diverse, distributed technical staff. The candidate must have excellent demonstrated experience in project, contract, and financial management (including complex spreadsheet development and use), statistical analysis, and report and presentation preparation (preferably using Web-based tools and technologies). A Bachelors degree in a relevant field and the ability to travel are required.

A more detailed description of the responsibilities and requirements for the position are provided below.

Please apply to this position online through MIT's Staffing Services system, http://sh.webhire.com/servlet/av/jd?ai=631&ji=1846204&sn=I . If you have technical difficulties using the form, please send your cover letter and resume to csail-jobs@csail.mit.edu.

Responsibilities

The Business Manager reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer, and has primary responsibility for providing the business environment to ensure cost-effective and productive operations in North America, in collaboration with W3C's other global offices. This includes the following responsibilities at the MIT site:

• Prepare budget plans and financial reports, including integration of reports from W3C global offices.
• Track and report on income and spending throughout year.
• Handling of contractual relationships for services, offices, meetings, sponsorship, etc.
• Support W3C Membership development, including attracting new Members, maintain value for existing Members and using Membership systems.
• Support preparation of proposals for funding from governmental, industrial and organizational sources.
• Coordinate legal matters and liaise with MIT and outside legal counsel on matters related to copyrights, trademarks, patents.
• Ensure that staff have adequate space, systems and associated support.
• Coordinate execution of annual staff reviews.
• Coordinate development, implementation and enforcement of policies (e.g., personnel, financial, purchasing, travel, etc.).
• Contribute to strategic discussions regarding the overall direction of W3C.
• Coordinate with MIT in particular, and other W3C global offices as necessary, to execute the responsibilities above.
• Support the CEO in leadership matters, including preparation of presentations, meetings, negotiations, compiling metrics, special projects, etc.
• Innovate to improve the ability to execute these responsibilities over time.

Requirements

Candidates must possess the following qualifications

• Strong verbal and written English skills.
• Strong skills in financial management, including complex spreadsheet development and use.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Experience in statistical analysis.
• Experience in managing contracts and projects.
• Experience in preparing reports and presentations, preferably using Web-based tools and technologies.
• Ability to work and communicate effectively with a diverse and distributed technical staff.
• Availability to travel.
• Bachelors degree in a relevant field.

The following qualifications would be a plus:

• Fluency in a language other than English.
• Work experience in international, technical environments.
• Experience in fund raising and development.
• Understanding of and experience with the Web industry and technologies.
• Understanding and experience with intellectual property rights and patent law.
• Advanced degree and/or professional certification (e.g., accounting, legal, etc.).

About the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop the technical standards that make the Web work (including XML, HTML and 80 other standards). W3C pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term interoperability and growth for the Web. Over 400 organizations are Members of the Consortium. W3C is run jointly by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France, Keio University in Japan, and has 16 additional Offices worldwide. For more information see http://www.w3.org/