COLE201: Student Groups Team member

Overview:

This is a pro-bono volunteer position.

JerseySTEM is looking for talented professionals across our departments to commit time and energy as long-term engagement for our mission to provide STEM education to underrepresented middle school girls.

The College Engagement Student Groups Team Member reports to the Student Groups Team Lead and organizes the outreach, engagement and interaction with the Student Groups on campus in order to secure access/exposure to their membership and ultimately recruit them as program instructors.

Those student groups are of 3 types: Professional (ACM, ASCE, IEEE,..) , Affinity (SHE, SWE, SHPE, WICYS),... or Greek life. JerseySTEM focuses on 30 Universities in NJ, 10 students org within each university and the 4-5 Board members of each student group.

• Work with Assigned Student Organizations in assigned universities to develop relationship and establish contact
• Research colleges and their student groups, identify student group chapters and their leadership, locate their contacts and maintain that information in Salesforce.
• Engage with, Establish and maintain relationships with Student organizations in each campus by securing meeting time and securing presentations
• Mandatory meetings:
• Attend virtual  Department  meetings weekly : (Sundays 5pm EST)

• Genuine concern about/interest in solving the STEM education gender gap
• Ability to establish and maintain connections with area schools
• Resourceful, can-do attitude
• Experience with K-12 schools as a parent, former student professionally
• Outreach experience preferred-
• Experience with community outreach, relationship development,  Not shy on phone or email.
• Comfort working in a ‘virtual organization’ with digital tools (G-Suite, Slack, Jira, salesforce)

Time Commitment 

• 3-6 Hours weekly
• 6 months minimum