Offer summary

Qualifications:

Genuine concern about solving the STEM education gender and opportunity gap., Experience developing and supervising teams., Strong leadership and team building skills., Comfortable working in a virtual organization with digital tools..

Key responsabilities:

Implement best practices in Grant Research, Writing, and Management.

Manage a team of Grant Researchers and Grant Writers.

Attend virtual team meetings once a week and report to the board on team performance.

Make recommendations for improving processes and creating a self-sustaining team.

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.

In addition to Corporate and Individual donations, Grants are a potential large source of financial support for the JerseySTEM mission. JerseySTEM is looking for a Department Head who can help us establish and manage the infrastructure to effectively and efficiently access this stream of funding for JerseySTEM.

Responsibilities:

Implement best practices in Grant Research, Writing and Management
Manage a team of Grant Researchers and Grant Writers
Investigate and evaluate JerseySTEM’s, and other organizations’, process for applying for grants.
Make recommendations regarding requirements to create and implement an improved process.
Make recommendations regarding creating a robust and self-sustaining team
Work with the human resources group to identify and on-board volunteers with the requisite skills.
Monitor and guide the team’s efforts.

Attend virtual team meetings once a week
Report to the board on team’s performance and provide recommendations on team structure and operational management, as well as on-going potential further improvements.

Qualifications:

Genuine concern about/interest in solving the STEM education gender and opportunity gap.
Experience developing and supervising teams.
Experience working with volunteer organizations.
Strong leadership/team building skills.
Resourceful, can-do attitude.
Comfort working in a ‘virtual organization’ with digital tools (G-Suite, Slack, Jira, salesforce).
Flexible schedule to allow for non-regular, scheduled meetings during the workweek 1-2 times a month

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