Strategic Planning & Infrastructure Development

Mentor 

Emily Easton, PhD Director of Education and Workforce Development

Background

The Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE) is an intellectual hub for advancing the science and engineering of quantum information between the CQE community, across the Midwest, and around the globe. A catalyst for research activity across its member and partner institutions, the CQE is based at the University of Chicago and is anchored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Northwestern University

Externship Description

The Strategic Planning & Infrastructure externship is central to developing an approach to expanding the quantum-ready workforce that will enable the larger team to recruit, retain, and engage a broad cohort of scientists, engineers, and associated professionals, and will actively participate in updating and documenting progress towards the existing strategic plan.

Specific Objectives

• Become familiar with strategic outreach and data management to support education, outreach, and workforce development programs.
• Help to ideate how the CQE team can most strategically achieve goals to grow the quantum workforce.
• Learn standards of contact management and coordinated communications.
• Participate in strategic planning discussions and process.

Qualifications

Candidates should have excellent written, oral, and social-emotional communication skills, should be comfortable working collaboratively with an enthusiastic team on interconnected projects, and share our interest in bringing a broad cohort of scientists and students to the field.

Why this internship?

• You will gain or strengthen skills in strategic planning, program development, data management, and analysis.
• You will be offered invaluable access to our broad network of alumni and PhD-trained professionals working throughout the STEM workforce, including seminar panelists, externship hosts, and mentors.