TECH000: Department Head
JerseystemNew Jersey, United States
Posted October 24, 2023
Part Time
About the Company
JerseySTEM is a network of parents, professionals, students, and educators committed to promoting excellence in STEM education. The organization partners with local schools to create and enhance STEM-oriented educational opportunities, focusing on college and career readiness. JerseySTEM also aims to bridge the gender gap in STEM and provide resources to underprivileged students, ensuring inclusive access to STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) programs.
Job Description
JerseySTEM is seeking talented professionals as volunteers to support STEM education for underrepresented middle school girls. The role involves managing IT team leads, promoting best practices, maintaining a culture of openness, and setting goals. It's a people management position with limited opportunities for personal ownership.
Requirements
- Have a service mentality: Business/Users are your clients
- Ability to build and lead a team: articulate overall strategy, get buy in from team, get leads to work together
- Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
- Sense of urgency: getting things done today is better than getting them done tomorrow
- Cheerleader in chief for the technology department
- Exposure to all or some of these technologies
- Obsessive documenter
- 8-10 hours per week, 12+ month commitment