COME000: Head of Community Engagement

JerseySTEM; United States; Remote; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to bridging the STEM education gender gap! As the Community Engagement Department Head, you will lead efforts to connect underrepresented middle school girls with enriching STEM programs. This pro-bono volunteer position requires strong leadership and team-building skills as you manage a dedicated team and collaborate with various departments to enhance outreach. You will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact while working flexibly within a passionate community. If you are resourceful and committed to empowering the next generation of female leaders in STEM, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Genuine interest in solving the STEM education gender gap.
• Experience in leading teams and managing others.

Responsibilities

• Improve JerseySTEM’s community engagement and outreach strategies.
• Manage a team responsible for business development and onboarding.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Team Building

Resourcefulness

Understanding of K-12 Education

Outreach Experience

Tools

G-Suite

Slack

Jira

Salesforce

Job description

Overview

This is a pro-bono volunteer position.

JerseySTEM is looking for talented professionals across our departments to commit time and energy as long-term engagement for our mission to provide STEM education to underrepresented middle school girls.

The Community Engagement(COME) Department Head provides leadership, direction and planning to identify, reach out to and engage with Middle Schools of interest that could benefit from our afterschool STEM programs. Will build and lead a team of Area Managers responsible for designated regions.

Responsibilities

• Work to continuously improve and streamline JerseySTEM’s approach to community engagement and outreach

• Manage a team of 4-5 direct reports responsible for Business Development, Account Management and Onboarding of targeted schools

• Responsible for department budgeting, planning and reporting

• Collaborate with College Engagement leadership to ensure staffing alignment between interested schools and universities (for volunteer instructors).

• Collaborate with the Corporate Engagement to ensure alignment between the Schools we reach out to and the Companies we seek sponsorship from.

• Partner with other JerseySTEM department leadership to plan growth strategies (Marketing, Human Capital etc.)

• Conduct/Attend virtual team meetings weekly : (Sundays 6 pm EST)

Qualifications

• Genuine concern about/interest in solving the STEM education gender gap

• Strong leadership/team building skills

• Resourceful, can-do attitude

• Familiarity / understands K-12 schools (as a former educator/ school personnel/ school board member etc)

• Experience leading a function (i.e. team, department manager, etc) and managing others

• Comfort working virtually with digital tools (G-Suite, Slack, Jira, salesforce)

• Outreach experience preferred

• Would be a plus if candidate has flexible schedule to allow for day time calls with the school admins during the work week

Time Commitment

• 3-6 Hours weekly

• 6 months minimum