Content & Committee Manager

Job Description

Position Summary:

ASM International seeks a highly collaborative professional to serve as a key liaison among ASM’s technical volunteers, content teams, and business initiatives. This role combines strong communication, relationship-building, and project coordination skills to transform technical knowledge into relevant, high-quality, and marketable products and programs.

The position will work closely with ASM’s volunteer technical committees and internal teams to develop and strengthen handbooks, journal content, technical resources, and event programming. The successful candidate will be comfortable working with technical subject-matter experts, turning ideas into actionable projects, and balancing technical rigor with audience needs and market opportunities.

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities

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• Serve as the liaison to ASM’s volunteer technical committees, translating expertise and ideas into actionable, relevant, and marketable outcomes.
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• Build strong relationships with volunteer leaders and subject-matter experts, providing structure, facilitation, and follow-through for committee initiatives.
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• Support the development of new technical committees and strengthen engagement with existing ones.
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• Collaborate with content, digital, media, and other internal teams to identify and develop new products and resources that meet members’ and industry’s needs.
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• Identify emerging technical topics, industry trends, and market opportunities to inform ASM’s content, products, and programs.
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• Work with event committees and staff to strengthen programming, including topics, speakers, keynote content, and opportunities to expand industry participation.
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• Facilitate collaboration between technical volunteers and ASM staff across content, events, marketing, and other functions.
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• Manage multiple projects and priorities, ensuring effective communication, coordination, and follow-through.
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• Represent ASM professionally to members, volunteers, industry professionals, and other external stakeholders.
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Qualifications:

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• A bachelor’s degree or higher; an engineering or technical degree, or related work experience, is preferred but not required.
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• Experience collaborating with engineers, researchers, technical professionals, or industry experts is highly desirable.
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• 6–8 years of experience managing committees, partner relations, or similar responsibilities, preferably in an industry or technical society setting.
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• Excellent communication, relationship-building, facilitation, and collaboration skills.
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• Ability to assess project concepts for audience needs, market relevance, and business opportunities.
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• Experience with technical publications, standards development, event planning, or volunteer management is a plus.
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