Project STEM+ Specialist for the 2025/26 School Year

Project STEM Specialist

Job Description

Purpose: The Project STEM Specialist will coordinate district-wide implementation of STEM-related programs by guiding and supporting sites and staff to ensure growth of student learning and engagement in STEM. The Project STEM Specialist will also support any grant-funded projects across curriculum areas, grant writing, and budgeting.

Reports To: Deputy Superintendent

FLSA Status: Exempt, salaried

Salary: $66,000 per year, commensurate with experience

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Education with a valid Kansas Teaching License
• Five or more years of successful teaching experience
• Background/knowledge in research-based instructional strategies
• Demonstrated skill in working with STEM learners
• Experience in developing and leading professional development sessions for individuals, small groups, and large groups
• Ability to organize time and resources
• Valid driver’s license
• Health and Inoculation Certificate on file in the District Office (after an employment offer is made)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of the Renaissance STAR Assessments, Kansas State Assessments, and use of formative and summative assessment data
• Experience working in or with a military-connected student population
• Experience working with diverse student populations
• Experience in the implementation of STEM-related curriculum to also include after-school opportunities for students

Essential Functions: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily

• Provides on-site instructional support and feedback for staff, including classroom instruction and in after-school settings
• Serves as a resource for program teachers and site administrators to identify appropriate instructional strategies and interventions to increase students completing requirements and increase college entrance
• Coordinate the implementation of supporting academic achievement of all students in the areas of Mathematics and Science
• Facilitate highly effective professional learning leveraging best practices in the areas of Mathematics and Science for certified and classified staff members
• Ensure student and environmental safety standards at all times
• Aids in providing guidance to the District and schools on the implementation of STEM curriculum and instructional practices in a tiered instructional model
• Implement, monitor, and provide technical support to school site staff, Instructional Impact Team members, and administrators
• Assist in the evaluation of the STEM program(s) as well as collect data to monitor student progress
• Support new educators as needed
• Attend and participate in General Education Student intervention meetings as necessary and requested
• Support targeted curricular projects funded through grant activities
• Participate in staff development opportunities
• Facilitate summer curriculum and instructional projects as needed/directed
• Works with sites to implement and advance STEM within each school
• Participates in creating and updating the District website about STEM and STEM publicity in the community
• Networks via phone/email with other STEM-connected professionals
• Provides STEM information sessions and coordinates Family Nights
• Assist with the gathering and processing of data needed to complete grant reports and updates for the district, building, and grant administration
• Meets with the Deputy Superintendent to discuss areas of strength and areas where teachers would benefit from additional support to provide a full and skillful implementation of the STEM programming
• Will need to travel using personal transportation
• Other duties as assigned by district administration
• Regular and consistent attendance at work

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time
• Ability to enter data into a computer, to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids
• Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone
• Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone
• Physical ability to lift to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height
• Ability to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk, and reach overhead

Terms of Employment: At-will employment. 200-Day Contract, Classified Position, not within the Bargaining unit for the remainder of a 5-year grant project (July 2025 – May 2029)

Evaluation: Performance evaluations following the Board’s policy and the Classified Employee Handbook.