Open Positions
Service Learning Manager
STEM Library Lab is hiring a Service Learning Manager! The Service Learning Manager will manage the daily operations of the Service Learning Program and ensure the program’s growth and success.
Full Time: 40 hours a week
About STEM Library Lab
Founded in 2016, STEM Library Lab (SLL) began as a nonprofit equipment lending library that fosters academic success by providing teachers and students with access to equipment and support for high-quality active learning. Since founding, we have grown and expanded our programs to include a Teacher Free-Store, professional development sessions, and the EdOpportunities Database. Across all of our programs, SLL has engaged over 2,100 teachers, impacting 115,500 students and saving schools more than $2,200,000.
About the Service Learning Manager Position
To thrive as the Service Learning Manager, you will need a passion for, and deep knowledge of K-12 education, training techniques, the basic tenets of service learning, the IPARD model, marketing campaigns, establishing partnerships and project management. You will be empowered not simply with carrying out assigned tasks or projects, but with setting the direction of the program’s success.
Selected Metrics of Success:
- Number of funded applications
- Number of schools participating in the program
- Number of schools retained annually
- Annual amount of grant funding awarded to schools
Salary Range: $54,000 – $60,000/year Medical, Dental and Vision included
Overview of Position Responsibilities
Grant Management:
- Oversee the entire lifecycle of service learning grants, from application to reporting.
- Develop and maintain grant application materials, calendars, guidelines, and evaluation criteria.
- Review grant proposals, provide feedback, and make funding recommendations.
- Monitor grant budgets and expenditures, ensuring adherence to financial guidelines.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for grant-related inquiries from internal and external stakeholders
- Build and maintain relationships with grant funders, community partners, and other relevant entities.
Project Coordination:
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to identify service learning opportunities aligned with grant objectives.
- Coordinate project logistics, including scheduling, resource allocation, and participant communication.
- Facilitate training sessions or workshops to support grant recipients in project implementation.
Qualifications
- Strong passion for STEM Library Lab’s mission and educational equity; SLL is an Equal Opportunity Employer and diverse candidates are encouraged to apply;
- Strong interest in K-12 education and service learning;
- Ability to work with diverse sets of educators, students, and community stakeholders;
- Must be self-motivated
- BS/BA is required
- Strong oral/written communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to maintain effective and professional work relationships;
- Attention to detail is a must for this position. Strong management and organizational skills, in particular time management and multi-tasking;
- Proficiency in Google Suite and Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word and Excel;
- Access to reliable transportation is required and have a valid drivers license.
- Belief that educational equity and racial equity are inextricably intertwined, and that institutionalized racism in our public school system is actively oppressing students of color.
To apply:
Interested candidates should email a cover letter and resume to monique@stemlibrarylab.org
Professional Development Manager
This position is responsible for ensuring the management and success of the Engaging Students in LSSS-Aligned Instruction workshop series, a program that serves over 100 local teachers to provide planning support in the pedagogy and practices of the Louisiana Student Standards for Science.
Part-time: 20 hours a week
Salary: $24,000-$30,000
Professional Development Manager (PDM)
The Professional Development Manager will be responsible for managing, designing, and delivering the professional development workshop series Engaging Students in LSSS-Aligned Instruction. Engaging Students works with local schools to bring professional learning aligned to the new science standards, which enables teachers to understand the “why” and “how” behind the standards and translate that into high rigor teaching regardless of the specific curriculum a school has selected. The PDM will manage all aspects of the workshop process, including redesigning workshop content to ensure it is in alignment with recognized best practices statewide and nationally, outreaching with current school partners to schedule sessions, presenting content alongside the Executive Director, outreaching to new school partners to bring them in as customers, and coordinating marketing and design of the session materials with the Marketing Coordinator.
Primary responsibilities include:
1. Development of Content and Collateral
- Review and redesign all workshop sessions to ensure they are aligned with the expectations of the LSSS, NGSS, and LDOE;
- Adapt sessions to ensure that content is tailored by grade band to provide age-level appropriate strategies;
- Customize sessions to include examples relevant to the particular schools’ curriculum and needs;
- Rework sessions to ensure that they include hands-on engagement time for participants, rather than simply lecture, discussion, and independent work;
- With the Marketing Coordinator, create materials in the form of PowerPoints, handouts, and a booklet with deliberate design scheme for presentation of session content
2. Delivery of Content
- Act as primary/co-presenter of content to schools;
- Communicate with school liaisons to schedule sessions and organize logistics of presentations;
- Co-conduct observations of classrooms in accordance with the expectations of the scope of work for each school;’
- Collect and review evaluations from school partner and implement feedback where appropriate
3. New School Outreach
- Use existing professional networks to outreach to new schools in order to increase the total number of Professional Development Customers
- With the Marketing team, hosting events or other outreach strategies to find additional customers from within or outside our current network
- Work toward a goal of finding 3-4 new school partners for the upcoming school year
4. Program Evaluation
- Setting benchmarks for what and how to conduct program evaluation that works toward SLL’s existing organizational impact goals
- Collecting quantitative and qualitative data for program evaluation, analyzing it, and preparing analysis to stakeholders, including for usage in marketing and sales.
Qualifications
- Strong passion for STEM Library Lab’s educational equity mission; SLL is an Equal Opportunity Employer and diverse candidates are encouraged to apply;
- Demonstrated background in STEM and/or STEM teaching
- Ability to work with diverse sets of educators, students, and community stakeholders;
- Desire to work in a small, startup environment that will require self-motivation and flexibility;
- BS/BA is required, 4+ years’ experience in a Louisiana school setting is required;
- Strong oral/written communication and interpersonal skills, including ability to maintain effective and professional work relationships;
- Attention to detail is a must for this position. Strong management and organizational skills, in particular time management and multi-tasking;
- Proficiency in Google and Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word and Excel;
- Driver’s license or reliable access to transportation required;
- Ability to work within the hours of 10am-6pm Monday-Thursday and a flexible 8-hour schedule on Fridays, with occasional duties on weekends as events required.
- Salary range
$24,000.00 – $30,000.00
To apply:
Interested candidates should email a cover letter and resume to monique@stemlibrarylab.org
Client Services Coordinator
Part-time Position
About STEM Library Lab
Founded in 2016, STEM Library Lab (SLL) began as a nonprofit equipment lending library that fosters high-quality active learning by providing teachers with access to equipment, programs, experiences, and STEM instructional support to drive student success. Since founding, we have grown and expanded our programs to include a Teacher Free-Store, Professional Development sessions, Service Learning and EdOpportunities Database. Since inception, we have worked with over 2100 teachers across more than 210 schools.
Serving with STEM Library Lab will give you an opportunity to be a part of a small, passionate team that values open communication, new ideas, and the ambitious pursuit of educational equity. Since this will be our fifth full year of operations, you will learn how to launch and grow a nonprofit and have a direct impact on how we develop. Together, we can make sure students in every classroom have exposure to quality educational experiences that prepare them for a 21st Century future.
Client Services Coordinator
Primary responsibilities include:
- Coordinating the Front Desk during open operating hours
- Opening and closing the space for teachers/visitor
- Assisting teachers with using the space, including: completing surveys, touring the space, using copy/print center machines
- Checking in/out library materials and restocking them
- Answering phones and directing calls to the appropriate team member
- Assisting with Program Implementation
- Doing outreach calls for various programs, projects, events, and initiatives
- Conducting data entry for programs
- Other duties as assigned
Additional qualifications include:
- Strong passion for STEM Library Lab’s educational equity mission; SLL is an Equal Opportunity Employer and diverse candidates are encouraged to apply;
- Ability to work with diverse sets of educators, students, and community stakeholders;
- Desire to work in a small, startup environment that will require self-motivation and flexibility;
- Strong oral/written communication and interpersonal skills, including ability to maintain effective and professional work relationships;
- Attention to detail is a must for this position. Strong people management and program organization skills, in particular time management and process-setting;
- Proficiency in Google and Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word and Excel;
- Reliable access to transportation required;
- Ability to work within the hours of 2pm-6pm Monday-Friday and some Saturdays
Send cover letter and resume to Monique@stemlibrarylab.org