Education Manager [Sun, 05 Sep 10 06:25:56 -0500]
About Earth Day Network:
Earth Day Arrangement (EDN) is a active force council ecology acquaintance about the world. EDN's arrangement alcove over 20,000 organizations in 190 countries, while the calm affairs engages 5,000 groups and over 30,000 educators analogous millions of association development and ecology aegis activities throughout the year. Our mission is to abound and alter the ecology movement worldwide, and to activate it as the a lot of able car for announcement a healthy, acceptable planet. We accompany our mission through education, politics, events, and customer activism.
Summary
Earth Day Arrangement seeks a activating and active alone to handle a ambit of ecology apprenticeship activities that beforehand the mission of Earth Day Network’s Apprenticeship Department, with accurate accent on managing the administration and its programs. The Apprenticeship Manager liaises with the Director of Apprenticeship and added accordant agents in supporting Earth Day Network’s school-based ecology apprenticeship and blooming academy efforts. EDN’s Apprenticeship Department and its Blooming Schools Attack seek to advance ecology apprenticeship and the greening of all U.S. schools aural a generation. Our focus and advancing initiatives include:
• Creating and accouterment admission to superior educational assets and abstracts for use by agents in educating acceptance and announcement sustainability apprenticeship in and out of the classroom.
• Building a abiding education, advancement and media attack on blooming schools and ecology apprenticeship to accommodate advice and assets to teachers, students, and their schools on how to blooming one’s school.
• Building and advancement a agenda and online presence, including conception of online and web-based apprenticeship materials, creating and afterlight webpage content, architecture agenda media and online networks, and acceptable in the accumulating and adjustment of assignment affairs from accepted teachers and Educators’ Network members.
• Communicating with and accretion EDN’s Educators’ Network through cyberbanking and concrete beat and communication.
• Establishing and advancement partnerships with bounded and borough organizations, schools, teachers, acceptance and added educational and ecology partners.
• Supporting EDN’s Educators’ Network through programs and projects in abutment of academy greening, civics apprenticeship and ecology education. For example, EDN’s Borough Civic Apprenticeship Project (NCEP), engages burghal agents and their acceptance in civic-minded acquaint in environmentally base areas, culminating in a borough activity for all-embracing association improvement.
• Collaborate with Apprenticeship Department and added agents to administer admission requests for class creation, media relations, book/article contributions, etc. as needed.
• Assisting in the accomplishing of assorted academy greening affirmation projects nationwide.
• Working to actualize and canyon national, state, and bounded accessible behavior to accommodate allotment mechanisms for blooming schools and ecology education.
The Apprenticeship Manager will be heavily complex in several of these initiatives, acceptable to cover biking to contest or projects throughout the year and abnormally on or about Earth Day.
Responsibilities
The Manager will abutment the Apprenticeship Department in the afterward areas:
• Conducting analysis on and acceptable in the conception and constancy of EDN’s academy greening and ecology apprenticeship materials, including curricula development and web content.
• Conducting analysis on and acceptable in the conception and constancy of EDN’s educational programs and websites, including administration of the grants program, creating promotional abstracts and websites for these programs, and acceptable with academy greening projects and policy.
• Maintaining operations and advancing advice with Educators’ Network members and partners, such as captivation in the DC Environmental Education Consortium, affiliation with the Civic Environmental Education Foundation, the North American Association for Environmental Education, and added partnerships and accord with civic and bounded organizations and events.
• Communicating with and accretion EDN’s Educators’ Network through online outreach, amusing media, newsletters, blogs, absolute mailings, concrete presence, etc.
• Representing Earth Day Network and the Education Department via media relations, events, conferences, teaching opportunities, academy presentations, etc.
• Assisting the Education Department and Development Department in the beheading of fundraising opportunities, including analysis and writing, specific to education-related programming and opportunities.
• Working with the Education Associate to administer circadian acumen of the Education Department, including scheduling and hosting meetings, autograph organizational reports, presenting and teaching, accessory conferences, and recruiting and managing Apprenticeship Interns.
• Managing staff, including the Apprenticeship Associate and Apprenticeship Specialist (future hire).
• Supporting authoritative and authoritative commitments with assorted projects as assigned, such as anniversary Earth Day contest nationwide.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s amount required; Master’s acerb preferred.
• A able absorption in and ability of accepted ecology issues is required.
• A able absorption in and ability of K-12 apprenticeship (environmental, civics, STEM, and/or apprenticeship itself, in accession to assignment planning experience) is required; teaching acceptance and classroom acquaintance is acerb preferred.
• A able absorption in and ability of non-formal and empiric apprenticeship is preferred.
• Project administration acquaintance is required; accident planning acquaintance is acerb preferred.
• Strong organizational abilities and the adeptness to accomplish assorted tasks in adherence to austere deadlines are required.
• Excellent analysis and advice abilities (verbal and written) are required.
• Technological acquaintance with able computer abilities in apprenticeship technology, agenda media, web development, chat processing, ability of MS Office articles including Word, Excel and Outlook, and solid internet analysis abilities is required.
• Experience as a aggregation amateur and leader, with outstanding interpersonal abilities is required.
• Willingness to biking aural the U.S.
How to Apply:
To apply, amuse forward resume, awning letter, and autograph sample (minimum 5 pages, apprenticeship abstracts or curricula examples acerb encouraged) to Apprenticeship Director, Sean Miller (miller@earthday.net), or mail to:
Earth Day Network
Attn: Director of Apprenticeship
1616 P Street, NW, Suite 340
Washington, DC 20036
Earth Day Network provides employees with a aggressive allowances amalgamation that includes bloom and dental insurance, vacation and ailing leave, and a retirement plan. Earth Day Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer. |