STEP UP Project Manager
Summary
| Title: | STEP UP Project Manager |
|---|---|
| Company: | American Physical Society |
| Location: | College Park, MD |
Description
STEP UP Project Manager
College Park, MD
Who we are
The American Physical Society (APS) is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities. APS represents over 55,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and throughout the world. Society offices are located in College Park, MD (Headquarters), Ridge, NY, and Washington, D.C.
Position Summary
This position will help lead a national effort to dramatically increase the fraction of women majoring in physics at the undergraduate level. The candidate will develop, improve, and assess a wide variety of strategies organized around mobilizing 10,000+ high school teachers to implement research-based materials and tactics that are encouraging young women to see themselves as members of the physics community. You will utilize APS resources and work with our partners to build innovative components that will change the paradigm of gender diversity in physics and beyond.
The American Physical Society (APS) is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities. APS represents over 55,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and throughout the world. Society offices are located in College Park, MD (Headquarters), Ridge, NY, and Washington, D.C.
Position Summary
This position will help lead a national effort to dramatically increase the fraction of women majoring in physics at the undergraduate level. The candidate will develop, improve, and assess a wide variety of strategies organized around mobilizing 10,000+ high school teachers to implement research-based materials and tactics that are encouraging young women to see themselves as members of the physics community. You will utilize APS resources and work with our partners to build innovative components that will change the paradigm of gender diversity in physics and beyond.
A Typical Week May Look Like This…
- Project Development
- Strategize with the project leadership on techniques and tools that will increase uptake and high-fidelity application of research-based materials.
- Assess impact of strategies and construct re-envisioning or reorganization of activities to maximize effectiveness.
- Create and vet new concepts for reaching and motivating teachers to join this national movement.
- Assist in writing and editing of grant proposals or other documents that support project advancement.
- Project Management
- Track progress on development and operation of strategies.
- Work with APS resources and other organizations to refine activities and build infrastructure that supports these efforts.
- Coordinate meetings both internally and externally that inform and shape the project.
- Document, track, and organize project resources.
- Develop assessments and evaluations to inform projects, and analyze this information to inform project evolution and success.
- Create and track project budgets.
- Communications
- Write and edit articles, brochures, project reports, and web-based materials.
- Correspond via phone and email with high school teachers, students, faculty, national leaders, and others in the broader physics community.
- Conduct workshops for students, teachers, and others to promote use of strategies.
- Create graphics, graphs, and other materials that promote the project.
- Become familiar with relevant peer-reviewed literature.
Education:
- PhD or Master’s in physics or equivalent experience.
- Communicate accurately and professionally through writing.
- Speak clearly and knowledgeably in a variety of professional settings including meetings, conferences, and informal professional settings.
- Manage multiple complex tasks, and jump quickly between these projects as timelines demand.
- Work independently with little supervision, and recognize critical issues or decisions that require deliberation based on complex interactions between project participants, and stated policies.
- Resolve conflicts constructively, and empathize and understand perspectives of others.
- Experience in organizing multi-faceted projects with many participants, multiple deadlines, and complex interactions desired.
- Ability to travel several times each year.
The American Physical Society strives to:
- Be the leading voice for physics and an authoritative source of physics information for the advancement of physics and the benefit of humanity.
- Provide effective programs in support of the physics community and the conduct of physics.
- Collaborate with national scientific societies for the advancement of science, science education and the science community.
- Cooperate with international physics societies to promote physics, to support physicists worldwide and to foster international collaboration.
- Promote an active, engaged and diverse membership, and support the activities of its units and members.
The American Physical Society is an EEO employer and is committed to hiring diverse candidates. We welcome you to apply today!
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