Employment and Internships
Project Exploration Background: Co-founded by paleontologist Paul Sereno and educator Gabrielle Lyon, Project Exploration is a nonprofit science education organization that makes science accessible to the public–especially minority youth and girls–through personalized experiences with scientists and science. Through youth development programs, school services, exhibits, and online initiatives, Project Exploration involves the public in the excitement of scientific discovery.
Reports to: Co-Executive Director
Supervises: Three full-time and one part-time staff; occasional program interns
Position opens: Immediately
Position Summary: The Director of Programs is a key member of Project Exploration’s leadership team, responsible for the development and implementation of short-term and long-term plans to grow, refine and evaluate programs, with a particular emphasis on programs serving middle and high school youth from populations historically underrepresented in science. This position is responsible for overseeing Project Exploration’s work to develop and support long-term relationships with students, implement Project Exploration’s personalized approach to science, and provide engaging, high-caliber, authentic experiences with science and scientists. The Director of Programs supervises a diverse educator team of program staff, consultants, and occasional external partners through direct oversight, assessment, and ongoing professional development. Schedule includes evenings and weekends during the school year; travel and week-long overnight field trips each summer.
Responsibilities:
Organization Leadership:
- Participate in organization-wide strategic and evaluation planning and lead annual program development.
- Develop and manage department budget.
- Represent the organization at local, regional and national events.
- Support external relationships including collaborative regional, city, and community partnerships; cultivate and support relationships with a wide range of regional scientists who can deliver programs in partnership with Project Exploration.
- Identify program development opportunities, funding, professional development and program infrastructure needs.
- Steward and support relationships with designated funders; participate in grant and report development and funder site visits.
- Ensure grant- and funder-mandated program deliverables are met.
Program Department Responsibilities:
- Design and supervise high-caliber, personalized science programming across all program efforts, including youth development, teacher professional development, public and field programs.
- Lead the development, implementation, and evaluation of programs and associated materials for youth programs, teacher professional development, and public outreach, including fee-based programs and web initiatives.
- Supervise the development of departmental systems and infrastructure and organize educational materials and intellectual resources.
- Direct staff professional development to ensure best practices in youth development, and ensure compliance with state and federal youth development policies and mandates.
- Supervise department infrastructure including procedure manuals, data collection, reporting, and student files.
Requirements:
The ideal candidate is able to plan, create, and evaluate compelling, personalized experiences with science and discovery that engage youth and families traditionally overlooked by science.
- Must have a strong desire to work in a fast-paced, growing institution serving urban youth.
- BA/BS degree required; MA or MS degree in science, education, or related field encouraged.
- Minimum five years experience in teaching, delivering, and managing educational or youth programs.
- Minimum of three years direct supervisory experience.
- Experience traveling with youth and adult program participants; comfortable providing programs in the field.
- Experience designing programs, curriculum and evaluation, and reporting on grant-funded projects.
- Excellent writing, communication, and computing skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Windows, Word, and Excel; knowledge of YouthServices.Net database software a plus.
- Advancing Youth Development Certificate and Youth Worker Certification Levels I and/or II; familiarity with the Chicago Public School system; Spanish language skills are considered assets for this position.
Salary: $60s; commensurate with experience. Employer-paid health, dental, and life insurance. Excellent benefits and professional growth opportunities.
To Apply: Deadline January 18, 2010. Cover letter, resume, references, salary requirement and past salary history are required. Incomplete applications will not be accepted. Email: programsearch@projectexploration.org.
No phone calls please.
Status: Part-Time (Non-Exempt)
Reports to: Manager of Individual Giving and Board Relations
Position Summary:
As a member of the development department, the Development Associate is responsible for supporting all aspects of the individual giving program and board relations.
Responsibilities:
Database Coordination and Administrative Support
- Use Raiser’s Edge software to track income, maintain and track relationships, generate data and financial reports, and assist with tracking and analysis of development strategies
- Assist with processing all donations
- Provide administrative support to the development department staff as necessary
Individual Giving
- Assist in maintaining donor and prospect files, records, and intelligence (electronic and paper)
- Prepare packets and briefings for meetings with donors
- Assist with preparing and tracking mailings
- Assist with prospect research
- Provide administrative support, including arranging food and beverage, technical needs, and logistical help for events and meetings as needed
Special Events
- Help coordinate logistics of all fundraising events. Responsibilities include tasks such as:
- Coordinate invitation production, mailings, and RSVPs
- Draft solicitation letters to vendors and related correspondence
- Create flyers, signage, program booklets, or other printed material as needed
- Secure bids from and select caterers, printers, designers, florists, etc.
- Maintain files and oversee correspondence.
Board & Committee Meetings
- Assist with producing and compiling board materials and mailings/correspondence as instructed
- Arrange food and beverage, technical needs, and logistical items for board, executive, and nominations, and board development committee meetings
- Help keep records and archives
- Maintain all board documents and files
Qualifications:
- Knowledge of Raiser’s Edge or other fundraising software
- Extremely detail-oriented
- Outstanding organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills
- Proven ability to multi-task in a high-energy environment
- Outgoing, work effectively with others, and able to proactively troubleshoot and take initiative on assigned tasks
- Interest in the nonprofit sector and development field
- Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required
- A minimum of one year administrative experience; prior nonprofit development administration experience a plus
- Experience with Microsoft Windows and all Microsoft Office applications
- Work schedule includes occasional evenings and weekend hours. Driver’s license and access to car preferred.
Hours: Part-time, flexible, 15-24 hours per week
Position starts immediately
Work-study students eligible
Send cover letter, resume, and references to:
Development Associate Search
Project Exploration
950 East 61st Street
Chicago, IL 60637
773-834-7625 fax
or to jobs@projectexploration.org
- Marketing and Web Production Internship
Status: Part-time
Reports to: Senior Manager of Marketing and Technology
Responsibilities:
- Assist with production and management of web content.
- Researches keyword sets for SEO campaigns, and organic search rankings.
- Compiles and analyzes web analytics, Adwords and CPC programs.
- Works with web presence to maximize organic SEO and AdWords/CPC campaigns, developing landing and promo pages as needed.
- Converts digital video in-house as needed.
- Assist with product and event photography.
- Assist with developing web copy for ads and pages.
- Assists with management of marketing campaigns and PR on Social Media channels.
- Provide administrative support as necessary.
- Work with respective departments and mailing list service to coordinate contacts.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Actively pursuing a college degree in marketing and communications, or webdesign, with a focus on internet marketing is preferred.
- Portfolio with samples of both print and web-related marketing pieces
Skillset:
- Experience with Dreamweaver, Photoshop managing CMS systems and blogs (Ruby, Drupal, Joomla, WordPress et al), PHP/MySQL, Flash, AJAX
- Excellent written capabilities
- Outstanding organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills
- Extremely detail-oriented
- Digital Photography fundamentals
- Proven ability to multi-task in a high-energy environment
- Outgoing, able to work effectively with others, and able to proactively troubleshoot and take initiative on assigned tasks
- Experience with Microsoft Windows and all Microsoft Office Suite.
Salary:
Part-time, flexible, 15-20 hours per week,
$8.00/hr
Position dates:
Starts immediately, ends Aug 31, 2010.
Send cover letter, resume, development, writing and photography samples and references to: jobs@projectexploration.org with Marketing and Web Production Intern in the subject line.
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