Informal Education/Citizen Science Manager

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Informal Education/Citizen Science Manager

The focus of this position is education in the non-traditional educational settings. The forum for focus would be entities such as Home Schools, After-School Programs, Scouting Affiliations, Community Groups, etc.

This volunteer opportunity may lead to a permanent, salaried employment.

The responsibilities of this Manager are:

• Collaboration with Enterprise In Space (EIS) Education Manager, Deputy Manager and other education team members.
• Oversee creation and development of standards-linked, grade-level curriculum, guides, kits, activities, web-based products, and content.
• Provide graphics, content, and text for EIS Academy projects.
• Ensure international representation of all developed materials is considered and work in collaboration with International, People of Indigenous Origins, and EIS Academy Managers.
• Collaborate with Competition Managers.
• Coordinate and participate in grade level formal educator training and professional development workshops and with the Education Communications Manager.
• Coordinate and collaborate with other EIS managers for conference, symposium, and community outreach activities.
• Collect and disseminate feedback regarding educator/student.
• Document all activities, feedback and follow-up of the Informal Ed Team.
• Assist and coach/educators and Emissaries in experimentation design to meet qualifications of the in-flight program.
• Assist educators in experiment proposal submittals.
• Conduct and document post-flight follow-up with experiment contributing teams.
• Obtain educator volunteers for the Informal Ed Team.
• Other tasks as they arise.