Program Manager

Freelancingforgood; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Program Manager to lead educational programming focused on environmental and climate issues. This role involves developing and implementing innovative educational resources, collaborating with various stakeholders, and ensuring program effectiveness through evaluation. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in science education, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to equity and social justice. Join a dynamic team dedicated to making a positive impact in the community and advancing climate education for teachers and students. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to meaningful change while working in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in educational programming or nonprofit required.
• Strong commitment to equity and climate education is essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage and evaluate educational programs focused on climate and environmental science.
• Collaborate with partners to develop and implement educational resources.

Skills

Educational Programming

Environmental Science

Communication Skills

Data Management

Project Management

Cultural Sensitivity

Public Speaking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Science Education

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Salesforce

Asana

Google Drive

Microsoft Office Suite

Zoom

Job description

EarthGen is looking for a Program Manager to join their team in Washington. This could be remote, hybrid or in-person, but must be based in Washington and able to come into the office at least quarterly.

Overview:

• Full-time position
• Language: English
• Location: Washington; could be remote, hybrid or in-person, but must be based in Washington and able to come into the office at least quarterly
• Salary: $65,000 – $75,000 per year
• Applications closing: until filled

Job Description

The Program Manager works collaboratively with program staff to create, manage, support, and evaluate educational programming for teachers, students, and schools in order to advance EarthGen’s mission.

Equipped with environmental and climate education expertise and a strong commitment to equity, the Program Manager will help EarthGen meet the unique needs of school communities furthest from educational and environmental and climate justice.

The Program Manager oversees and supports programs held within our three focal program areas: direct learning, curricular resourcing, and collective action. These include projects such as EarthGen’s Climate Education (ClimEd), Stormwater Stewards, and Bilingual Environmental Education. They oversee the creation and execution of proposals, grants, and contracts and their respective budgets for these programs. This person also oversees systems that support outreach, evaluation and engagement analysis of programs.

While EarthGen staff will often work collaboratively to progress the totality of our work, we are looking for a Program Manager to support following areas of our work: migrant education, bi/multilingual education, Native education, stormwater, youth action and broadly, environmental and climate science education for teachers and students.

Responsibilities

Program Development, Implementation, and Evaluation:

• Manage, develop, adapt, and implement place-based educational resources in environmental and climate science, and social justice, driven by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and other relevant standards/guidelines
  • Create and share classroom resources, in-person and virtual, that engage students to learn about and address local environmental and climate issues
  • Co-design and co-facilitate professional learning experiences focused on climate change and climate justice with an emphasis on educator relationality and expertise, social-emotional wellbeing, critical reflection, and iterative practice through cohort-based experiences
  • Ensure materials are OER compliant and ADA accessible
• Partner with contractors, community partners and EarthGen staff to organize the design, build, installation, and stewarding of green stormwater infrastructure installations at schools
  • Meet/coordinate with partners at school sites, plan concept designs, develop and implement feedback processes from greater school community
  • Coordinate and facilitate one to multi-day in-person installations with school community and partners
• Oversee and manage program budgets
• Connect with external partners and leaders relative to climate science education and subsequent program development
  • Learn from and convene climate science and climate science education experts
  • Attend regular meetings with partners to create efficient and collaborative work
• Coordinate regularly with an external evaluator to develop an annual plan and evaluate all programs according to organisational learning questions and indicators
• Initiate and develop partnerships with the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), school districts, Educational Service Districts, tribes, corporate partners, governmental agencies, and other community-based organisations

Outreach & Systems Management:

• Promote events, courses, and offerings via in-person meetings, emails and other forms of communication
• Partner in the development of program systems development and implementation centered around EarthGen’s values of equity, community, collaboration, growth-mindset and integrity
• Monitor and manage current systems to ensure their accuracy of program engagement data

Additional Responsibilities and Duties:

• Support EarthGen’s Development and Communication efforts through meetings with consultants and grantees, attending and coordinating development events, drafting promotional materials, writing thank you cards to donors and program partners, inviting program partners to fundraising events, etc.
• Send outreach emails for programmatic events
• Partner with Communications to share EarthGen successes with various audiences online, in-person, and in print
• Support development-related events, including recruiting school staff and students to participate
• Purchase materials for programs
• Print materials
• Travel via bus or car during nights and weekends as often as multiple times a month depending on the time of the school year (ex. October and April)
• Pick up rental cars, drive rental cars, arrange for travel and lodging
• Meet at school to receive truckloads of construction and installation project materials
• Process a high amount of information quickly and organize it into tangible work plans for a team on Google Drive or Dropbox
• Manage multiple, overlapping, and demanding deadlines using an online program management system, Asana

Role Requirements

We are looking for candidates with following skills and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in science education, environmental science or related field (Master’s preferred)
• 3+ years of experience in educational programming or nonprofit
• Teaching credential/experience helpful
• Ability to hold space for educators’ social-emotional, psychological, and intellectual responses to (in)justice, identity work, and other challenging topics
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills; cultural sensitivity, curiosity, and humility; high level of comfort speaking in public
• Able to work with data and numbers, especially in tracking program evaluation data, outputs and outcomes
• Experience developing high-quality environmental education materials for school settings
• Familiarity with public education system in Washington state
• Ability to communicate effectively in different ways (via email, phone, text, Zoom, in-person), including across sectors (ex. Teacher vs. construction worker)
• Manage political or other dynamics with carrying out programming around climate change and social injustice
• Willingness to learn computer-based systems, including: Salesforce, Canvas, Asana, Gusto, Abacus, Harvest, SurveyMonkey, Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft Office Suite, Zoom

How to apply?

Email a cover letter that speaks to your experience and a resume to [e-mail] with the subject line: PROGRAM MANAGER.

We must have both the cover letter and resume for you to be considered.