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