Education & Engagement Specialist II

About the role

The mission of the Allen Institute is to unlock the complexities of bioscience and advance our knowledge to improve human health. Using an open science, multi-scale, team-oriented approach, the Allen Institute focuses on accelerating foundational research, developing standards and models, and cultivating new ideas to make a broad, transformational impact on science.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to Education & Engagement programs, events, activities, and materials development across relevant divisions and programs of the Allen Institute
• Collaborate with the Education & Engagement team, the Communications department, scientific partners, external collaborators, and others to contribute to high-impact education programs
• Develop and maintain a network of contacts, such as individuals, other education programs, scientific consortia, nonprofits, universities, federal agencies, and others as relevant
• Develop and maintain familiarity with the scientific background and technical use of relevant open resources from across the Institute when relevant to projects
• Collaborate with stakeholders to plan, execute, and facilitate new and existing professional development and educational resources and events
• Contribute to educational development workshops and other programming for our educator network
• Develop and maintain the educational resources library, including developing open educational teaching and professional development resources, accepting external submissions of resources, coordination of the peer review of resources, and website maintenance
• Represent the Allen Institute to the scientific and educational community at conferences, professional societies, and networks
• Collect, analyze, and implement feedback on outcomes from training, education, and outreach programs and resources
• Lead tours of the Allen Institute, including staying up to date on new content and messaging
• Provide additional programmatic support as needed

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in EITHER education, OR biology, immunology, neuroscience, or a related biomedical science field
• 1 year of teaching or developing STEM courses and curricula

Qualifications

• Meticulous attention to detail
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and budgets for on-time and on-budget execution
• Outstanding networking skills
• Strong MS Office 365 skills
• Additional software skills, either experience or ability to learn new software quickly and comfortably: Adobe Creative Suite, website content management (e.g., Webflow), Asana, GitHub, OER authoring tools
• Strong work ethic, sense of urgency, and self-motivation, including the ability to follow through to complete tasks independently
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate with people at all levels of the organization, from a wide variety of backgrounds, and across age groups
• Exceptional collaborator; able to work with a variety of teams and personalities; ability to tailor approaches to best suit collaborators preferences

Skills

• Expertly target and customize content and approach for different audiences
• Represent the Allen Institute to professional communities online and at conferences
• Maintain current knowledge of emerging curricular design, educational research, and OER developments across biomedical sciences and STEM education

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
• Allen Institute 401k plan
• Paid time off as outlined in the Allen Institutes Benefits Guide

Pay

• $80,200 - $102,465*

Schedule

• Occasional evening and weekend hours required
• This role is currently able to work both remotely and onsite in a hybrid work environment. We are a Washington State employer, and the primary work location for all Allen Institute employees is 615 Westlake Ave N.; any remote work must be performed in Washington State.