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COLE000: College Engagement Department Head

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Internships

Experience:

Mid-level (2-5 years)

Work from:

United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Strong leadership and team building skills, Experience with universities and college campuses, Outreach experience preferred, Comfortable working virtually with digital tools, Genuine concern for solving STEM education gender gap.

Key responsabilities:

Manage a team of 4-5 direct reports
Report to the board of directors
Interact with peer department heads to coordinate efforts
Continuously improve college engagement approach
Attend mandatory meetings and planning sessions

JerseySTEM Education Startup https://www.jerseystem.org

11 - 50 Employees

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Job description

Overview:

This is a pro-bono volunteer 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 College Engagement Department Head provides leadership, direction and planning to identify, reach out to and partner with Universities and Colleges in New Jersey in order initiate programs that secure the supply of volunteer program instructors to be deployed in the middle schools JerseySTEM serves.

Responsibilities:

Manage a team of 4-5 direct reports in charge of different teams: Business Development, Student Groups, Individual students
Report to the board of directors or the Executive Board Member overseeing COLE
Interact with peer department heads
- With COME (Community Engagement) and DEVT (Corporate Partnerships Development) to coordinate the geographic focus for the given season
- with HUCA to hire new/replacements
- with FINA for the budget of the department
- With MKTG for the marketing needs of the department
Work to continuously improve and streamline JerseySTEM’s approach to college engagement
Represent COLE at the Monthly Leadership Team. Participate in the leadership team activities of budgeting/planning and reporting

Mandatory Meetings:
- Conduct/Attend virtual team meetings weekly : (Sundays 5pm EST)
- Biweekly team leads meeting
- Monthly Department Heads Meetings(2nd Thursday 7:30pm)
- Quarterly board Meeting (Last Wednesday 7:30pm)
Time Commitment
- 3-6 Hours weekly
- 6 months minimum

Qualifications:

Genuine concern about/interest in solving the STEM education gender gap
Strong leadership/team building skills
Resourceful, can-do attitude
Experience with Universities and College campuses
Outreach experience preferred
Experience leading a function (i.e. team, department manager, etc) and managing others
Comfort working virtually with digital tools (G-Suite, Slack, Jira, salesforce)
Would be a plus if candidate has flexible schedule to allow for day time calls with the school admins during the work week