Educational Outreach Manager I

Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia Tech’s Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering is seeking an Educational Outreach Manager to lead and coordinate the School's K12 outreach portfolio. You will develop and manage programs that inspire future engineers, strengthen partnerships with K12 schools, industry, alumni, and Georgia Tech students and staff, and expand the school’s educational impact.

The role requires building relationships, strategic planning, event coordination, and occasional travel, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of marketing and educational outreach program planning and design.
• Ability to maintain detail orientation, organization, and strong communication skills.
• Experience engaging with diverse stakeholders including schools, educators, and community partners.

Responsibilities

• Analyze outreach objectives and assess program needs and resources.
• Define specific program objectives and develop implementation plans.
• Coordinate program implementation and manage stages to meet objectives.
• Develop marketing materials that support program objectives.
• Plan and manage program promotional events.
• Participate in conferences and meetings to promote participation.
• Assess and report on program results relative to expectations.
• Administer program budgets and supplies.
• Develop programs to retain students in target groups.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

Marketing planning

Educational outreach

Presentation

Customer relations

Communications

Education

STEM or Education degree

Job description

Job Title: Educational Outreach Manager I

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full-Time

Job ID: 302448

About Us

Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

• Students are our top priority.
• We strive for excellence.
• We thrive on diversity.
• We celebrate collaboration.
• We champion innovation.
• We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
• We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
• We act ethically.
• We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Department Information

For more than two decades, the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering has consistently ranked among the nation's top 5 aerospace engineering programs, attracting aspiring engineers to pursue their academic journeys at the nations No. 1 public institution for aerospace engineering. With an esteemed faculty of more than 50 tenured-track professors and a thriving student body of over 2,000 individuals, the school prepares engineers who are ready to contribute across commercial aviation, defense, space exploration, advanced air mobility, and emerging aerospace technologies.

Job Summary

Develop and coordinate the implementation of programs designed to promote the Institute to target audiences of potential and enrolled students and other groups thereby encouraging their enrollment and retention at the Institute and/or a program within the Institute. Efforts include program needs assessment, concept definition, program development, marketing and evaluation. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: target group prospects and students, institutional and program administrators, Institute faculty and staff. This position typically will advise and counsel: target group prospects and students, institutional and program administrators. This position will supervise: May supervise

Responsibilities

• Job Duty 1 - Analyze outreach objectives and assess needs in the way of program components and resources.
• Job Duty 2 - Define specific program objectives and develop implementation plans.
• Job Duty 3 - Coordinate program implementation including directing stages required to meet program objectives.
• Job Duty 4 - Develop communications and marketing materials that support program objectives.
• Job Duty 5 - Plan, schedule and manage program promotional events.
• Job Duty 6 - Participate in conferences and other meetings and events that promote program participation and provide promotional opportunities.
• Job Duty 7 - Assess, evaluated and report on program results relative to expectations.
• Job Duty 8 - Administer program budgets and maintain supply of program materials.
• Job Duty 9 - Develop programs to retain students in target groups.
• Job Duty 10 - Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Other Required Qualifications

Weekends and evenings may be required for special events, and some travel

Required Experience

Four to five years of job-related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's or graduate degree in STEM, education, management, or related fields.
• Experience developing or managing youth STEM educational programs.
• Experience building partnerships with K12 schools, educators, school districts, higher education, nonprofit organizations, industry partners, or alumni.
• Experience writing or supporting grant proposals, grant-funded programs, or program reports.
• Experience with common youth protection and compliance guidelines.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

This job requires a working knowledge of marketing and educational outreach related program planning and design, especially as it relates to assigned target group of potential and/or enrolled students. Also required are skills in maintaining a detail orientation, organization, presentation, customer relations and communications.

USG Core Values

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found online at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found online at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, and services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

Other Information

Salary range: $75,000-$82,500.00 / yearly

Location: Atlanta, GA

Job grade: A8

This is a supervisory position.
This position does have financial responsibilities.
No, this position will not be required to drive.
This role is considered a position of trust.
This position does require a purchasing card (P-Card).
This position will travel.
This position does not require security clearance.

The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology is seeking an Educational Outreach Manager to lead and coordinate the School's K12 outreach portfolio. This individual will play a central role in expanding the School's educational impact and strengthen the pipeline to undergraduate programs. The individual will be expected to develop, conduct, and manage programs that inspire the next generation of engineers while strengthening partnerships with K12 schools, community organizations, industry, alumni, and Georgia Tech students, faculty and staff. This position is ultimately contingent upon outside funding.

Background Check

A successful candidate must be able to pass a background check, which will include a credit check. Please visit https://usg.policystat.com/policy/19298143/latest