Organization
M4A Foundation - CrowdDoing

Medicinal Foods, Medicinal Foods Sub-Project Project Management

Duration
Recruiting through Oct 28th
Location
El Dorado Hills, CA

Opportunity Details

Ongoing

Remote

Recruiting through Oct 28th

El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

About this Opportunity

Medicinal Foods for Stress, Sleep and Anxiety is recruiting virtual volunteer project managers. This role is for Medicinal Foods, Medicinal Foods Curriculum Development Sub-Project Project Management.

We're helping to build medicinal foods literacy and citizen science of foods & herbs for Stress, Sleep and Anxiety.

Here is the main package for your review to determine if you are interested: docs.google.com/document/d/1bT47d5eDE2NVW606d1Y7TeKp1hDHyP_JBuJ94Cyy0B4/edit?usp=sharing .

Please feel free to view this powerpoint to get an overview of this initiative: docs.google.com/presentation/d/12aEqwiRctIx3QcvK6HNFy4uJ5TgRffxQ7xPLEINNyJw/edit?usp=sharing

Did you know that there are thousands of foods and herbs that can impact our mental health in positive ways? CrowdDoing is a global virtual collaboration to research medicinal foods for stress, sleep and anxiety. Our project has the goal of advancing integration across fields of research and to build medicinal foods literacies in the population. We're recruiting virtual volunteer service learning project managers.

This role is for Medicinal Foods, Medicinal Foods Service Learning Micro-Leadership Project Management. CrowdDoing aims to make each role flexible, allowing you to become engaged according to your own schedule. You will have the chance to assume micro-leadership responsibilities in keeping with your aspirations and availability. https://real-leaders.com/leveraging-micro-leadership-to-make-aspirational-goals-achievable/.

You can see a video introduction (7 minutes & 25 second) to CrowdDoing's medicinal foods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUrvRkx7_y8

We're helping to build medicinal foods literacy and citizen science of foods & herbs for Stress, Sleep and Anxiety.

What skills will you practice gaining mastery of this this role? Skills that overlap with what are needed for Medicinal Foods project management Service Learners include skills relevant to future project delivery in the project management profession. These skills include hard skills like "ability to make data-driven decisions" and soft skills like :problem-solving, interpersonal, communication, teamwork, leadership)" Developing Digital-Age Project Management Skills to Thrive in Disruptive Times https://www.pmi.org/-/media/pmi/documents/public/pdf/learning/thought-leadership/pulse/digital-pm-skills.pdf?sc_lang_temp=en

There are other frames that the PMI for what skills represent the future of project management which are also learnable through multi-disciplinary project management focused service learning at CrowdDoing's medicinal foods team. Each of the skills identified by Sam Sauer in a January 9, 2018 called "The Skills Project Managers Will Need in 2025" can be honed through this role:

  • Emotional Intelligence,
  • Adaptability
  • Working with and Managing Remote Teams
  • Data Science Expertise

https://www.liquidplanner.com/blog/skills-project-managers-will-need-2025/

There are other skills of the future of project managers that can be learned through this role. "Project Management: 5 Characteristics of 'Transformational' PMOs" identified these skills, all of which connect to this role:

"Consistency, Transparency, Flexibility, Agility, Educational". These are characteristics that take practice to develop.

https://www.cio.com/article/2409234/project-management--5-characteristics-of--transformational--pmos.html

Each group reporting on the field identifies different skills that are needed. "A new report from Forrester Research describes the characteristics of next-generation project management offices with real-world advice from leading PMO directors on how to get there:

1. Leadership

2. Motivation

3. Communication

4. Organization

5. Prioritization

6. Problem solving

7. Adaptability"

https://www.cio.com/article/2389129/project-management-7-must-have-project-management-skills-for-it-pros.html

All of these skills are learnable through service learning with CrowdDoing's medicinal foods team in our project management roles.

CrowdDoing provides real-world project-based learners to service learners who want to both develop their skills, and learn new skills related to systemic thinking, systemic change, and multi-disciplinary collaboration.

Here is the main package for their review to determine if you are interested: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bT47d5eDE2NVW606d1Y7TeKp1hDHyP_JBuJ94Cyy0B4/edit?usp=sharing .

We also have a powerpoint we can share- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12aEqwiRctIx3QcvK6HNFy4uJ5TgRffxQ7xPLEINNyJw/edit?usp=sharing

Pinterest page:

pinterest.com/medicinalfoodscitizenscience/boards/

CrowdDoing leverages micro-leadership. You can see this public article about our work: https://real-leaders.com/leveraging-micro-leadership-to-make-aspirational-goals-achievable/

Please get in touch if you would be interested in supporting us through the role of:Medicinal Foods, Medicinal Foods Curriculum Development Sub-Project Project Management.

Pinterest page:

pinterest.com/medicinalfoodscitizenscience/boards/

CrowdDoing leverages micro-leadership. You can see this public article about our work: https://real-leaders.com/leveraging-micro-leadership-to-make-aspirational-goals-achievable/

Please get in touch if you would be interested in supporting us through the role of:Medicinal Foods, Medicinal Foods Curriculum Development Sub-Project Project Management.

"To help support you joining the right part of CrowdDoing for you, please use this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftd6E0tyV2uq7mMty1rZ80BB2MSGhbnof9gRBvaQXbrttIkg/viewform?usp=sf_link"

The only way CrowdDoing.world can realize its impact potential is through virtual volunteers,service learners(http://blog.reframeit.com/service-learning-and-skilled-volunteering/), and micro-leaders (https://real-leaders.com/leveraging-micro-leadership-to-make-aspirational-goals-achievable/) coming together.

See this brief video aboutMicro-leadership at CrowdDoing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdB2YJ8Ocs&app=desktop). Micro-leadership means that each person adopts a dimension of responsibility for a collective problem in our society through collaborating on that area creatively individually and together through social innovation.

You are also welcome to see more background on CrowdDoing at our Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVoL7fai7oa95fBo44FC0gA?sub_confirmation=1).

Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/crowddoing.world/),

Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CrowdDoing-515295062320613) ,

LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/18910309/).

You can see a CrowdDoing Volunteering FAQ here.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zCkbEQX8PHh8k85BS0iIhsJJxADqdH3Kpn1PDbI1Uno/edit?usp=sharing

For questions and correspondence regarding codesigning a perfect volunteer role for yourself in the CrowdDoing systems change venture lab please email: "[email protected]"

Watch our video to learn more: Systemic change by CrowdDoing

Skills/Interests

  • Research

Issue area

  • Education
  • Health & Wellness