COME000: Head of Community Engagement

JerseySTEM, Inc.

7h • Remote

About The Position

This is a pro-bono 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.

Requirements

• 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)

Nice To Haves

• 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

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)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees