Educational Outreach Specialist

Lynker Corporation•Silver Spring, MD

About The Position

Lynker Corporation is seeking a dynamic and experienced Educational Outreach Specialist to join their team. This role involves supporting the operations of the NOAA Outreach Center, including managing educational products, developing new ones, and disseminating them to educators, students, and the public. The specialist will also plan and coordinate NOAA's participation in educational events, work with communications teams, maintain the NOAA Education web portal, conduct needs assessments, and develop concepts for exhibits. Additionally, the role supports outreach products in various media, collaborates on inter-agency education efforts, and responds to public inquiries. This position is contingent on contract award.

Requirements

Assists with the operations of NOAA’s Outreach Center including answering constituent inquiries, responding to internal and external requests for NOAA educational outreach materials, supporting educational outreach events across the Agency, representing NOAA in education meetings and conferences, supporting NOAA-wide events like NOAA Kids Day, etc.
Assists with the development and coordination of products and services designed to promote education programs and efforts of NOAA’s Office of Education and the NOAA education community. Coordinates with educational outreach professionals across NOAA to ensure consistency of approach and share best practices and lessons learned.
Designs and develops educational outreach materials and publications. Assists with the planning and development of educational exhibits for NOAA booths in educational conferences.
Bachelor’s degree in education, communications, or related fields.
Minimum of 4 to 6 years of work experience.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Support the operations of the NOAA Outreach Center including maintaining collections of major education and outreach products from across the Agency; designing and developing new education and outreach products to fill gaps and respond to audience needs; disseminating such products to educators, students, and the public; responding to general public inquiries about NOAA and NOAA education; providing guidance and expert advice to NOAA staff engaged in public outreach activities.
Plan, coordinate, and support NOAA education participation in education conferences, meetings, workshops, civic events, etc. Coordinate with internal and external partners as needed.
Work closely with the Office of Education Communications team to ensure a coordinated approach for education outreach and communications efforts for NOAA’s Office of Education and the NOAA education community.
Support the NOAA Education web portal and maintain thematic collections of education content from education efforts across the Agency.
Conduct needs assessments and coordinate focus groups with members of target audiences to understand their needs and to get their input on new or existing education and outreach products.
Develop concepts and designs for exhibits and coordinate fabrication and installation of such exhibits.
Support the design and development of outreach products in other media, such as video,, audio, podcasts, etc. to promote NOAA education to target audiences.
Support intra-agency and inter-agency education efforts under the NOAA Education Council, NOAA Research Council, Interagency Working Group on Ocean Education, and other internal or external committees of groups. Respond to email, telephone, postal mail, and in-person education and outreach inquiries from NOAA staff, educators, students, researchers, and members of the public.
Support outreach initiatives from across the agency (e.g., NOAA Ambassadors).

Benefits

Comprehensive healthcare for the employee at no monthly cost
Healthcare benefit covers medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision
Personal Time Off (PTO) Policy plus paid holidays
Highly competitive compensation plan regularly calibrated against industry and location benchmarks
401(k) retirement plan with company-matching
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – we're all company owners!
Flexible spending accounts
Employee assistance program (EAP)
Short- and long-term disability insurance
Life and accident insurance
Tuition assistance/Training/Workforce improvement reimbursement per year
Spot bonuses for exceptional performance
Annual Employee Recognition Awards with bonuses
Employee Referral Program
Free centralized, self-directed Learning Management System to learn at your own pace
Personalized career growth plans for every employee