CaRCC is seeking volunteers to form a working group to increase student engagement with CaRCC. This working group would address how to communicate with students, how students can benefit from attending CaRCC activities or contributing to CaRCC products, and how to introduce students to RCD careers and job families. Please contact rcd-workforce-chairs@carcc.org if you are interested in contributing.
Contribute to Workforce Support Resources: The CaRCC Workforce Development Interest Group is seeking volunteers for three possible projects to build on RCD Nexus Day 2025’s workforce track. Whether you attended or not, please contact rcd-workforce-chairs@carcc.org if you are interested in contributing to developing resources for RCD professional development and/or leading one of the efforts. The level of interest will help determine which plans move forward this year.
- A centralized community repository of documentation and knowledge – This builds on RCD Nexus Day 2024 and an initial resource catalog published at PEARC25, developing it into a sustainable and accessible catalog of resources for RCD professional development.
- A guide to navigating your own institutional culture – A list of questions to ask, to help understand how your specific institution works
- A curriculum for behavioral competencies – Resources to build non-technical professional skills
Communications and Outreach Working Group Members: We are in the process of forming a new working group tasked with creating a Communications and Outreach Guide and related materials specifically for RCD professionals. If you are a communications professional who supports RCD, or an RCD professional with experience doing communications and outreach, we’d love your help! Please reach out to Daphne McCanse (daphne@carcc.org) and Eric Adams (ewa@purdue.edu) if you are interested.
People Network Track Co-Coordinator Openings: We currently have an opening for a Track Co-Coordinator. With a typical commitment of two years, with the opportunity to extend, these positions.
- Ensure the articulation of community-identified priorities for experience sharing and networking.
- Support the execution of monthly Calls reflecting those priorities, leaning on community members to share their experiences and to identify others interested in doing so.
- Coordinate & collaborate with other People Network Track Chairs, CaRCC activities and other RCD activities
- Champion Track-specific activities & outreach for CaRCC and in coordination with other RCD activities
- Expand one’s professional network and strengthen your leadership skills!
Researcher-Facing Track Co-Coordinator: We’re looking for an enthusiastic person who likes planning events that will shape professional development opportunities for RCD facilitators across the nation. If you like working on a team to motivate people to connect & meet monthly so that they can share job experiences and topics important to helping make researchers successful, then we have a volunteer spot for you. Contact Justin Booth.
People Network Steering Committee Members: The Data-Facing and Researcher-Facing Tracks have slots open at this time.
Curious about how monthly People Networks calls happen? Have different / new ideas for monthly topics? Know of persons who would benefit from meeting colleagues or learning from the different Track Calls? If so, we’ve been waiting for you to join the Steering Committees of the People Network Tracks. Each Track has a small group of persons dedicated to planning and executing monthly Calls that shape professional development opportunities for RCD professionals across the nation; and the time commitment each month is shorter than 1:1s with your boss. The personal benefits include:
- Working collaboratively with colleagues across disciplinary & institutional boundaries
- Diversifying the breadth of Track topics as well as the community’s participation
- Opportunities to further outreach for CaRCC and work with related RCD organizations
- Expand one’s professional network and build/strengthen one’s leadership skills
Contact Bob Freeman and Lauren Michael.
CaRCC Metrics Team Members: Do you enjoy working with data, crunching numbers, and using visualizations to convey a story? Interested in trying out new approaches to understanding community dynamics while helping CaRCC reach and support RCD professionals? If so, the Metrics team is looking for several persons to assist with making sense of different data streams related to everyday CaRCC activities: YouTube video views, website visits and downloads, monthly Track Calls topic modeling & conversation analysis, just to name a few. In addition to working on a team of enthusiastic “data-facing” individuals, you’ll be able to:
- Working with colleagues across CaRCC’s Tracks and Working/Interest Groups
- Help CaRCC’s activities & benefits reach individuals and institutions that are not “visibly” involved
- Explore new approaches for thinking about complex data, including publishing reports and articles
- Expand one’s professional network and build/strengthen one’s data science skills
Please contact Bob Freeman or anyone on the Logistics team if you are interested in joining.