Long-term Positions

OARC currently has no long-term positions open.

Short-term Contracts

OARC currently has no positions open to work on specific projects.

In general, all roles at OARC are suitable for remote working. Hours for long-term positions are negotiable between 80-160 per month.

 

Why Work for DNS-OARC ?

 

For someone with the right skills and style of working, you will find being part of our team flexible and rewarding:

  • Be at the heart of the DNS industry, participate in its technical community, and build relationships with all the key players.
  • Make a difference to helping the Internet work better for all.
  • An opportunity to contribute to solving some of the critical technical challenges in Internet infrastructure, naming and security.
  • Be involved in developing and supporting open-source software and data analysis tools that help understand the operation of the Internet’s naming infrastructure.
  • Association with and the opportunity to build on OARC’s strong reputation, community, neutrality and sustainability.
  • Being able to work for a neutral public benefit mission, free of vested commercial interests.
  • The chance to travel to high-profile US and international Internet conferences several times per year.
  • Opportunity to speak at and be a public face of OARC at workshops and conferences.
  • Enable dialogue between the academic research and commercial operator communities.
  • Support for personal professional development in Internet engineering, research, event running, community building, and governance.
  • Possibility to mix working for OARC with other projects and engagements.
  • Work for an organization with a well-established remote/WFH working environment and culture.
  • Work within a close-knit, internationally diverse and inclusive team, with proven and established supportive leadership.
  • A flexible working environment that is adaptable to your particular skills and strengths., and style of working.

 

Joining Our Team

 

Due to its small size and international constituency, DNS-OARC staff resources are provided by a flexible distributed team of independent contractors, rather than a set of pay-rolled employees.

Are you a person with potential to join the OARC team ? Here's key attributes we're ideally looking for in candidates (some of these are role-dependent, so we don't expect everyone to tick every single box):

  • Has a strong commitment to OARC's public benefit mission of making the DNS and wider Internet work better for all.
  • Someone who is proven, equipped, well-established, motivated, and comfortable working in a remote/WFH environment, not just as a pandemic expediency, but long-term.
  • Is a self-starter, can work independently, and has the ability to propose and execute their own ideas and solutions.
  • A team player, who is supportive of their colleagues and OARC's stakeholder community members.
  • Proficient or adaptable in using distributed working, cloud and open-source tools for getting the job done:
    e.g. E-mail, Github/Gitlab, Zoom, Mattermost & Signal chat, Mailman,
    Indico, SuiteCRM, QuickBooks, Etherpad, Drupal, MediaWiki;
    various social media, and/or similar collaborative platforms.
  • Is available, willing and enjoys travel to events and sites in the US and internationally.
  • Has their own contracting company or similar vehicle, and is self-sufficient for matters of invoicing, tax, benefits, travel, expenses.
  • May have multiple non-conflicting part-time engagements in parallel, coupled with good communication, time management and prioritization skills to ensure all clients' needs are met.
  • Is known and has good networking within their professional communities, and is comfortable and fluent with being a public face of OARC at events and conferences.
  • Is committed to transparency and accountability in their work, and to best practices for nonprofit membership organization governance.
  • Proficiency in written and spoken English is a requirement, other languages welcome.

 

OARC believes firmly in diversity and inclusivity, and in taking a pro-active approach to improving this in our sector of the tech industry, both within our own team and our larger DNS community. OARC's existing team has a range of nationalities, cultures and genders, and we encourage and welcome applicants of all ages, ethnicity, orientations and beliefs. We are supportive of professional development for candidates with potential.