Design Team Assistant Manager

The Design Team Assistant Manager position supports the Design Team Program Manager with daily responsibilities to help ensure an innovative and safe environment for students and staff. The Design Team Assistant Manager works directly on site with students and staff and at times will lead activities for students or staff. The Design Team Assistant Manager is involved in hiring, training, disciplinary action (when needed), and other areas supporting the Program Manager. Assistant Managers are great leaders, problem solvers, and effective communicators.

JOB DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide site management by leading, guiding, and supporting staff and students in day to day after school and summer programming at partnering sites.
• Ensure documentation of projects through logging regular project updates, participating in regular check-in meetings communicating with internal and external partners.
• Identify strategies for dissemination of project results for internal and external audiences (create and maintain ongoing calendars, presentations, write-ups, etc).
• Prepare quarterly/annually reports, demographic data and completing reports as necessary.
• Document partnership activities for project and proposal development.
• Use creative strategies to ensure effective communication, collaboration, and engagement with participant parents/families and community partners.
• Respect and maintain confidentiality regarding knowledge of participants.
• Assists with budgets and KAYSC staff time for projects as needed.
• Help develop strategic directives to support the KAYSC’s all around mission and vision.
• Assist with hiring and training a network of individuals that provide STEM/Justice programming to effectively meet the needs of the community.
• Design and facilitate meetings with youth and KAYSC stakeholders associated with project work plans.
• Manage logistics for programming - gather materials, reserve programming space, help create curriculum/lesson plans, etc.
• Manage attendance, communicate with parents/families and payroll lists, as needed.
• Encourage community members to share their knowledge and talents with program participants.
• Identify areas for engaging the perspective of KAYSC youth participants on project.
• Coordinate with co-workers, educators, parents and community partners to support participants’ long-term involvement and success in the KAYSC.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES:

1. Communication: Expresses oneself clearly in conversations and interactions with others and ensures that information is shared with others who should be informed.
2. Collaboration: Develops, maintains, and strengthens partnerships with others inside or outside the organization who can provide information, assistance, and support.
3. Customer Service: Demonstrates an understanding of the SMM mission by ensuring that their own interactions with internal and external customers consistently support the mission.
4. Fostering an Inclusive Community: Contributes to a museum environment, and people, that reflect and respond to the diverse needs and cultures of our community (internal and external).
5. Results Orientation: Focuses on providing a best in class visitor experience through work outcomes by meeting personal and organizational work objectives.
6. Management: Coaches and develops employees by providing feedback, development opportunities, and work direction while creating a sense of connection and belonging amongst staff and volunteers.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Education: High school diploma or equivalent. A college certificate, associate degree or equivalent credits are valued but not required.
2. Experience:
   • Knowledge of K-12 formal and informal STEM Education 
   • Previous experience in community engagement and youth development
   • Ability to write correspondence and curriculum 
   • Experience working with young people from multiple communities
   • Experience managing teams of adults preferred
   • Experience creating and maintaining internal and external partnerships
   • Experience with planning and facilitating large/small groups
   • Ability to maintain a healthy work environment
   • Effective communication skills
3. Work Environment:  Office and/or school setting. Some travel within metro area is required

STARTING COMPENSATION: $49,079 - $51,004/year (depending on qualifications; compensation grade 7)

The job duties and responsibilities listed describe the general nature and level of work assigned to this position and are not an exhaustive list. For some positions, detailed procedures may be outlined in supplemental documents.

We exist to turn on the science and inspire learning, inform policy and improve lives. We envision a world in which all people have the power to use science to make lives better. We value science as an essential literacy and strive for inclusion inside and out so that our museum and our people reflect and respond to the diverse needs and cultures of our community.

It is the museum’s policy and practice to hire and promote qualified job seekers from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. We offer benefit packages for full-time and part-time employees.

Salary : $49,079 - $51,004