Education Specialist

Description

JSU is seeking an Education Specialist II at Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. This position will support NASA's workforce experience activities for students in community colleges with a STEM focus. NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) is a STEM engagement activity for community college students seeking to transfer to a four-year institution or go directly to the labor force. NCAS uses NASA's unique expertise, research, facilities, and other resources in the area of aerospace to engage students in authentic and experiential learning experiences. Three consecutive mission opportunities are offered alongside an opportunity to apply for a paid internship. NCAS also partners with Minority Serving Institutions, enabling them to engage
students in similar experiences that are scaled to the institutions' STEM networks. This position requires the ability to obtain a public trust clearance.

Missions:

• Mission 1: Discover allows students to participate in a five-week, self-paced online course, where they learn about NASA missions, research, and goals.
• Mission 2: Explore allows students to participate in one of two educational simulations. The simulations help students practice and improve their knowledge while having fun.
• Mission 3: Innovate allows students to participate in an engineering design challenge, robotics competition, or capstone project. Participating students will be hosted onsite for a week at an NCAS partner institution or a NASA field center.

Examples of Duties

• Design and execute professional development opportunities for interns and fellows to increase understanding, competence, skills, and effectiveness in the mentor relationship.
• Design and execute professional development for mentors and stakeholders to increase professional understanding, competence, skill, and effectiveness in mentorship.
• Research government science content and educational best practices around identified themes or missions to support professional training, STEM engagement, citizen science, engineering design challenges, and virtual learning opportunities.
• Adhere to government STEM curriculum development guidelines, including beta testing and the use of focus groups to optimize content before release.
• Provide design, development, and delivery of curriculum, guides, lesson plans, support materials, and professional development for formal and informal learning communities.
• Expand the reach of educational projects and content by scaffolding and demonstrating research-based effective practices in delivering STEM content, presentations, and programming.
• Develop tests, questionnaires, and procedures that measure training effectiveness, and use these tools to determine whether program objectives are being met.

Typical Qualifications

• Master's degree.
• Six years of work experience.
• Ability to develop a variety of written and presentation-based work products and deliverables.
• Ability to work in a team-based environment.
• Ability to travel to and work on client sites as needed.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and presentation skills.
• Excellent customer relationship management skills.
• Ability to work on-site (up to full-time) at NASA's Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX).
• Ability to obtain a public trust clearance.