STEM Program Director - Do you love inspiring today's youth?

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Do you have a passion for developing curriculum and programs?

Program Coordination

• Maintain and continue to develop comprehensive curriculum in STEM education
• Ensure curriculum content is scientifically accurate and age-appropriate
• Collaborate with schoolteachers to develop a diversity and flow of lessons between elementary and middle school level programs
• Develop, create, recommend for purchase, and maintain program materials
• Design weeklong STEM-related summer science camps
• Organize optional special events or activities for students and their families

Program Management

• Foster working relationships with school administration and teachers
• Coordinate program logistics at each location and collaborate with principals, teachers, and parents
• Proactively recruit students to participate in the program and manage student application process
• Maintain clear and effective communication with parents, teachers, school administrators, and STEM instructors
• Assess student learning and evaluate the program’s success to monitor program effectiveness
• Document student assessment, attendance, student, parent, and teacher survey data and maintain effective systems for tracking and evaluating data
• Recruit, hire, mentor, and supervise part-time STEM program instructors and high school and college interns
• Develop ongoing training and professional development opportunities for STEM program instructors and high school interns
• Coordinate program logistics, instructional topics, and required teaching materials with STEM program instructors and high school interns
• Build program awareness through social media, web, and print materials in partnership with Pink Space Theory marketing staff
• Annually write a detailed and comprehensive annual report of the STEM programs
• Give presentations highlighting the implementation and impacts of the STEM program to audiences including prospective donors or grant providers, school district, or organization’s board of directors
• Actively participate in meetings

Program Instruction

• Plan, design and prepare inquiry-based and engaging STEM-related lessons and learning units
• Teach STEM afterschool programs at designated locations. Instruction could take place virtually or in person.
• Maintain a safe, healthy, supportive, and collaborative learning environment for students
• Align activities with student interests and allow for flexibility in content week to week
• Collect ongoing data so parents/teachers/administrators can monitor program effectiveness
• Evaluate and observe STEM program activities and measure outcomes
• Supervise and train STEM volunteer teachers
• Maintain a current knowledge of the evolving field of science and STEM education theory and trends, hands-on and inquiry-based education, and other pertinent educational philosophy and use this to continue to grow and develop the STEM program

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Education, or STEM related field.
• Secondary Teaching License in science, math or technology preferred
• 3-5 years of teaching experience
• Curriculum development experience
• Knowledge of inquiry-based learning
• Detail-oriented, organized, and able to provide exceptional customer service
• Creative in curriculum design and development
• Positive, flexible, and friendly
• Independently driven team player
• First Responder and CPR certification
• Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written
• Exceptional presentation skills with ability to adapt to various audiences
• Ability to communicate in Spanish, preferred