Future Engineers seeks a dynamic missiondriven individual to work remotely as a Program Coordinator in a highpaced collaborative environment. The Program Coordinator will support Program Directors in administering national K12 student competitions and new technology development. The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator (written and verbal) detailoriented highly organized with managing tasks and passionate about fostering STEAM opportunities for students. A background in K12 education or technology is expected and a passion for space exploration is preferred.
You will be responsible for:
- Assisting Program Directors with executing and following up on programspecific tasks
- Supporting schedule management and project milestone tracking
- Generating reports for client meetings with NASA or others
- Supporting Program Directors in designing producing and managing program virtual events from workshops to winner announcements
- Fielding and coordinating informal program communications with teachers judges students and parents
- Drafting and coordinating formal program communications such as blogs/releases emails newsletters and social media posts in coordination with our internal staff and external publicist.
- Working with a technical team to develop review and test programrelated curriculum or program supportmaterialsfor students and teachers
- Confidently speaking about trends in STEM education technology and space exploration
- Coordinating student team schedules
- Working with studentteams to track action items and monitor progress
- Creating meeting agendas and documenting meetings
- Researching ordering and shipping supplies materials or prizes
- Using analytics to help Program Directors steer datadriven approaches and solutions
- Working collaboratively with Future Engineers team members to support program goals as needed.
- Working efficiently in a remote work environment; collaborating via Slack as needed and working independently as the project requires
- Quality Assurance (QA): Test newly developedfeaturesand updates to the Future Engineers platform
Job Skills and Qualifications:
- Minimum of a Bachelors Degree
- 2 years of experience in Education or Technology
- Excellent organizational oral and written communication skills
- Proficient with online technologies
- Experience using project management tools
About Future Engineers
Future Engineers (www.futureengineers) is an online education platform that hosts national contests and challenges for K12 students. Future Engineers challenges have helped produce historic achievements from manufacturing the first studentdesigned 3D print in space to naming NASAs Perseverance Rover. All challenges are offered free for student/classroom participation.
Required Experience:
IC