Description:

Title: Project Manager – Science Education & Community
Must be local Thousand Oaks, CA campus and willing to come onsite a few days per month.
Part time role, 20 hours/week.
Duration: 1 year

Role Responsibilities

• The Manager – Science Education & Community drives processes for optimal stakeholder engagement with a philanthropic foundation’s science education and local STEM community grant portfolio. The position reports to the Senior Manager and Science Education Portfolio Lead for the foundation.
• The primary role is to manage key activities for the foundation’s science education portfolio including staff engagement with the foundation’s science education programming in the company’s headquarters community.
• Support of the foundation's science education portfolio, including
• Management of select science education grants through invitation and review of funding proposals, relationship management with nonprofit grantees and review and communication of portfolio impact.
• Communications support (copywriting and select presentations) for key channels for staff and community awareness of the foundation’s work, including for the staff-facing hub and relationships with select stakeholders.
• Facilitation of staff engagement with select programmatic events, such as an annual undergraduate student symposium and stakeholder visits to local science classrooms and/or the company’s headquarters campus.
• On-the-ground project management, attendee engagement, and impact evaluation support for a new initiative related to the foundation’s high school laboratory program on the Thousand Oaks headquarters campus.
• Administrative support for volunteer management system housing volunteer opportunities for staff to engage with the foundation’s science education portfolio.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in scientific field required with life sciences preferred; master’s degree preferred
• 3+ years of experience in science education strongly preferred (K-12 or undergraduate)
• Laboratory research experience preferred
• Experience managing volunteer campaigns and/or training and development programs preferred
• Excellent communication skills to engage and develop internal and external stakeholder communities
• Strategic thinker who can work with colleagues across lines of business to meet mutual goals
• Strong project management, organizational skills, and attention to detail
• Proven ability to build effective, collaborative relationships
• Sound judgment, strong decision-making skills, and ability to independently advance defined objectives

Top 3 Must Have Skill Sets:    

• project management
• life science education experience
• communications

Pay Rate  between $65 - $74hr on W2 based on experience.
 
"This posting is for Contingent Worker, not an FTE"