Laboratory Coordinator Senior
About The Position
The Laboratory Coordinator Senior for the Physics Instructional Resource Team oversees and coordinates the operational activities of lecture classrooms and the physics demonstration preparation room. This position ensures that all instructional equipment and requested demonstrations are properly set up, functioning, and ready for use in lectures, supporting a seamless and engaging teaching environment. The coordinator interacts closely with faculty to recommend, design, and develop new demonstrations, often collaborating with ASU’s workshop staff for construction and implementation. In addition, the role supervises assigned student workers, fostering their development while maintaining efficient operations. Aligned with the mission of the ASU Physics Introductory Labs, this position contributes to creating meaningful, hands-on experiences for students by supporting demonstrations that empower undergraduates to verify scientific concepts through experimentation. By ensuring reliable classroom operations and advancing innovative instructional demonstrations, the Laboratory Coordinator Senior directly supports the department’s goals of enhancing students’ critical thinking, analytical skills, communication, and appreciation for experimental physics in alignment with national teaching standards and the values of the New American University.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and three (3) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting laboratory, classroom, or instructional environments.
- Experience coordinating or setting up instructional demonstrations, laboratory equipment, or classroom technology.
- Experience supervising, training, or coordinating student workers or support staff.
- Experience maintaining inventories, equipment records, or laboratory materials.
- Demonstrated knowledge of laboratory safety practices and procedures.
- Experience using Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Windows and Apple operating systems.
- Experience using image or video processing software such as Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere, or similar programs.
- Experience using basic hand tools, power tools, and electronic testing equipment such as multimeters or oscilloscopes.
- Experience supporting outreach programs, public events, or educational engagement activities.
- Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience working in a higher education environment.
- Knowledge of physics demonstrations and instructional support practices, including experience working with demonstration inventory systems or similar resources.
- Ability to clearly communicate verbally, read, write, see and hear to perform essential functions.
Responsibilities
- Sets up and/or oversees the setup of classroom lecture equipment prior to lectures. This includes physics demonstrations, computers, document cameras, overhead projectors, microphones, laser pointers, and anything else an instructor may require for lectures.
- Based on communication with instructors plans and allocates demonstration resources to meet the requirements of the instructors.
- Recommends, modifies, or purchases demonstration equipment to meet the requirement of presenting instructors.
- Supervises, schedules, and trains student workers in the basic setup of lecture equipment, safety procedures in the demonstration lab, and demonstration equipment maintenance.
- Maintain the lecture demonstrations, catalog and store demonstrations according to the PIRA Demonstration Bibliography, instruct professors in the proper and safe use of new demonstrations.
- Maintain a current and accurate demonstration inventory in the online database.
- Will be responsible for chemical and hazardous waste inventories and for maintaining university laboratory safety requirements in lecture areas.
- Inventories, orders and restocks supplies used by instructors during classroom presentations as needed.
- Will be the liaison between the department and university support when a problem arises in the classroom related to university equipment or environmental conditions.
- Prepares and coordinates department public event (Night of the Open Door), which included training the presenters, set up the demo program, works with the department to purchase materials for the event.
- Participates in collective PIRT projects such ad Freshman Welcome, Homecoming Red Carpet Day and etc.
- Works with SPS students to prepare demonstrations for outreach program, trains SPS students to present them.
- Works with the professors to prepare for an outreach events.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
