# Volunteer Position Posting (Draft) DSQ Assistant

# Volunteer Position: iLRN Scientific Quality Assistant

**Location:** Remote

**Commitment:** (flexible/varied) Minimum 10 hours/week, Meetings once per week

## About iLRN

iLRN is a dynamic non-profit organization serving the immersive learning professional community through innovative programming, networking opportunities, and events. As we grow from a conference organizer into a recognized scholarly voice for immersive learning, we need dedicated volunteers to help strengthen the quality and credibility of the field's research.

## Position Overview

The iLRN Scientific Quality Assistant supports the Director of Scientific Quality (DSQ) in defining, documenting, and communicating what scientific quality means across iLRN's research, design-based inquiry, evaluation, and scholarly practice. The Assistant turns the Director's field-level guidance into usable standards, rubrics, and reviewer resources in the iLRN Codex, and keeps the people who apply them connected.

## Key Responsibilities

- Draft and maintain the scientific quality standards hosted in the iLRN Codex, including quality rubrics, review heuristics, and the Knowledge Tree Quality Standards Framework, under the Director's guidance.
- Help adapt quality criteria to immersive learning's foundational disciplines (Computer Science, Game Design and Interactive Systems, UX/HCI, Learning Sciences) and its applied domains, so work is reviewed against criteria that fit its approach.
- Prepare reviewer guidance and calibration materials, such as discipline-aware review prompts and reviewer matching rubrics, for Program Chairs, Track Leads, and review teams.
- Develop and run a feedback process that regularly gathers reviewer and author experience, and summarize findings for the annual review of quality standards.
- Document scientific integrity concerns and ethical or methodological edge cases referred to the Director, and track them through to resolution.
- Coordinate with the Scientific Quality Assurance Officer(s), Director of Publications, Program Chairs, and Track Leads, scheduling meetings and keeping notes and action items.
- Draft public-facing versions of internal quality standards for authors, reviewers, and the wider iLRN community.
- Support mentoring and onboarding for emerging scholars, new reviewers, and track chairs.
- Report regularly on activities, documenting the processes developed to perform the work and sharing them with the Director and the scientific quality team.
- Collaborate on scholarly works about research quality, peer review, and interdisciplinary rigor in immersive learning.

## What's in it for you?

- Work directly with iLRN's scientific leadership to shape how quality is defined in an emerging interdisciplinary field.
- Gain hands-on experience with peer review design, research standards, and scholarly governance.
- Training in the iLRN Codex and the tools used to manage iLRN's review and publication processes.
- Collaborate with others as a contributing author on peer-reviewed publications.
- Build your personal network and portfolio of interdisciplinary research and analysis.
- iLRN Volunteer Certificate detailing the role and services provided.
- Possibility for iLRN Volunteer Awards and nominations to future iLRN roles.

## Qualifications

- Analytical thinking skills
- Organizational skills and attention to detail
- Facility with research methods (qualitative, quantitative, mixed, or design-based) and familiarity with immersive learning literature
- Clear writing, with the ability to turn complex standards into usable guidance
- Familiarity with peer review and scholarly publication ethics is a plus
- Ability to communicate with diverse groups of scholars, designers, and educators

## How to Apply

Interested candidates are requested to send a brief introduction and links to any portfolio/body of work to <volunteers@immersivelrn.org>. Please use the subject line: "iLRN Scientific Quality Assistant Volunteer Application – Your Name" and visit our volunteer website to learn more.

Please note: While this is a volunteer position, iLRN is deeply committed to recognizing and valuing the time and expertise of all team members. We welcome you to join our team and look forward to working with you!

Thank you for considering volunteering with iLRN!