COME201: Area Manager

About the role

This is a pro-bono position at JerseySTEM. JerseySTEM is seeking talented professionals to commit time and energy to their mission of providing STEM education to underrepresented middle school girls.

Responsibilities

• Assigned a geographic area to reach out to schools in that area and engage with Middle Schools of interest that could benefit from their afterschool STEM programs for underserved middle school girls.
• Manage a team of Community Managers, each responsible for specific regions or specific schools.
• Work with the Community Engagement (COME) Team lead to define the strategy and targets for the incoming school year.
• Research schools, identify stakeholders (school admins), and locate their contacts.
• Establish and maintain relationships with school liaisons in the region.
• Collaborate with the College Engagement to ensure alignment between the schools they reach out to and the universities they source volunteer college students from.
• Collaborate with the Corporate Engagement to ensure alignment between the schools they reach out to and the companies they seek sponsorship from.
• Attend virtual team meetings weekly (Monday 6:30pm EST).

Requirements

• Genuine concern about/interest in solving the STEM education gender gap.
• Ability to establish and maintain connections with area schools.
• Resourceful, can-do attitude.
• Experience with K-12 schools as a parent, former student professionally.
• Outreach experience preferred.
• Experience with community outreach, relationship development.
• Not shy on phone or email.
• Comfort working in a 'virtual organization' with digital tools (G-Suite, Slack, Jira, Salesforce).

Benefits

• Flexible schedule to allow for day time calls with the school admins during the work week.
• Time commitment of 6 hours per week for a minimum of 6 months.