PODS500: Engineering Team Lead

About JerseySTEM

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.

Overview

This is a pro-bono position.

Lead team of 3-4 volunteers to develop and/or acquire as well as improve Engineering STEM Outreach Program curriculum to be delivered to middle school girls (grades 5-8) who are in underserved communities.  (The Outreach Programs are typically delivered as after-school programs following a fall/spring semester schedule.)

Responsibilities

Lead team of 3-4 volunteers to:

• Provide direction and coaching to your team, build team spirit!
• Develop new and interesting STEM curriculum, and update existing curriculum
• Reach out to content providers for potential partnership
• Produce materials for both Coaches and students to use in the afterschool programs
• Produce extracts of the Curriculum to fit the needs of the class
• Answer Coach questions, and provide advice on curriculum content delivery

• Leverage technology for innovative ways to deliver curriculum
• Use feedback from ongoing classes to improve/enhance existing curriculum

Qualifications

• BS and strong background in engineering  field
• Experience delivering middle school curriculum a plus
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Able to adapt and solve problems as they arise
• Willing to volunteer advice and opinion

Time Commitment

• 3-6 Hours weekly
• 6 months minimum