Education Coordinator
The Education Coordinator is a front-line relationship builder who works to connect the business community with our local school districts. As part of a collaborative team environment, this role provides direct support to community volunteers; training them on the Junior Achievement curriculum focused on career readiness, financial literacy and entrepreneurship. This is a part-time position with competitive wages, flexible hours during the school year and summers off.
Impact
The Education Coordinator is a front-line relationship builder who works to connect the business community with our local school districts. As part of a collaborative team environment, this role provides direct support to community volunteers; training them on the Junior Achievement curriculum focused on career readiness, financial literacy and entrepreneurship. This is a part-time position with competitive wages, flexible hours during the school year and summers off.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Renew and recruit program volunteer commitments throughout the community.
- Collaborate with school personnel to successfully organize classroom student experiences.
- Support logistics before, during and after each Experiential Learning experience.
- Participates in additional experiential learning activities such as JA BizTown, JA Finance Park, JA Dream Accelerator, and newly formed partnerships to bring learning to life.
- Manage program quality through training programs and evaluations.
- Market new and updated program opportunities to teachers.
- Renew program commitments of schools and teachers.
- Local travel to schools and within business community for trainings, presentations, delivery of materials, etc.
Qualifications (required)
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES:
- Professional and effective electronic interaction with appropriate follow up as a primary means of communication.
- Act as a team player by appropriately involving others in decisions and plans that affect them. Regularly invites and builds on the ideas and input of colleagues and work groups.
- Consistently make sound decisions on everyday issues. Demonstrate a drive to work towards resolving routine and unexpected problems with innovative and alternative solutions.
- Ability to manage data appropriately and efficiently. Proven proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite products, specifically, Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Inspire and energize others to action to further Junior Achievement’s mission by clarifying the purpose and impact.
- Ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of audiences and demonstrate capacity to actively listen.
Application Process
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