Description:
Duties/Responsibilities
Oversee USI’s new STEM Exploration Center and its daily operations.
- Initiate and establish collaborative partnerships with educational institutions and industry partners to promote USI’s STEM Exploration Center.
- Host professional development opportunities and/or training events for area K-12 teachers and USI’s pre-service teachers. Plan, coordinate, and lead K-12 field trips to the USI STEM Exploration Center. This includes developing/leading academic standards-aligned lessons for students, leading campus tours, ensuring equipment and learning resources are in good working order, managing inventory, scheduling, and communicating with visiting groups. Troubleshoot, refurbish, and/or recommend replacement of equipment and educational resources housed within the USI STEM Exploration Center and SwISTEM Equipment Lending Service.
- Plan, coordinate, and lead day camps for K-12 students during the summer months. Develop innovative, forward-thinking, career-centered curriculum for K-12 student and teacher experiences.
- Collect and analyze relevant data, continuously assess the effectiveness of center activities, and provide updates and progress reports to the director. Serve on relevant institutional and community committees/boards that build partnerships and promote USI’s commitment to STEM education at the K-12 level and beyond. Participate in campus K-12 education outreach initiatives. Work with the USI Teacher Education Department faculty to integrate resources available through the Southwest Indiana STEM Resource Center and USI Exploration Center into existing pre-service teacher curriculum. Assist in the planning, coordination, and execution of all K-12 outreach initiatives sponsored by the SwISTEM Resource Center.
- Assist in the development and submission of grant proposals necessary to sustain and/or expand the services offered through the SwISTEM Resource Center.
Required Knowledge and Skills
Bachelor’s degree in education with emphasis in a STEM discipline.
- Ability to establish rapport quickly and easily with diverse groups. Excellent interpersonal, written, oral communication skills, including group presentation skills.
- Proficiency in use of word, database, spreadsheet, and presentation software.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and facilitation skills.