COME000: Head of Community Engagement

All JerseySTEM roles are pro-bono (unpaid) positions.

JerseySTEM is a mission-driven professional network of pro-bono contributors dedicated to improving access to STEM education and career pathways for underserved middle school girls in New Jersey.

Members contribute their professional skills and leverage their networks in service of the organization’s gender-equity agenda.

Membership is a minimum six-month commitment of approximately six flexible hours per week and includes a $100 refundable deposit, returned after six months of active membership. K–12 educators, retirees, veterans, interns, and students are exempt from the deposit.

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 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.

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

Time Commitment 

• 3-6 Hours weekly

• 6 months minimum