Job description
Come join a dynamic team of educators committed to broadening participation in engineering while addressing our climate sustainability challenges! Elizabethtown College is seeking a part-time Project Coordinator to manage activities affiliated with the recent National Science Foundation Broadening Participation in Engineering grant award, “Greenway Institute of Elizabethtown College Center for Sustainability and Equity in Engineering.”
HOURS / SCHEDULE :
This position is part-time 5 – 20 hours per week, from May 2023 through July 31, 2024. The position may be extended up to a year depending on project needs.
HOURS / SCHEDULE :
This position is part-time 5 – 20 hours per week, from May 2023 through July 31, 2024. The position may be extended up to a year depending on project needs.
JOB
DETAILS
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The successful applicant will be able to show history of successful project management and be able to work effectively with peers remotely and in person. They must have strong computer/technology skills, follow-through, actively engage with coordinating duties, actively managing the project timeline, and all assigned activities. This person will work collaboratively with staff and faculty located on the Elizabethtown College campus as well as with staff and faculty located at the Greenway Institute in Vermont. They should be able to work closely with grant personnel to create comprehensive action plans concerning resources, budgets and timeframes for projects. Project Coordinators perform various coordinating duties such as scheduling and risk management.
For full consideration, please upload cover letter, resume and include (3) professional references on application.
The successful applicant will be able to show history of successful project management and be able to work effectively with peers remotely and in person. They must have strong computer/technology skills, follow-through, actively engage with coordinating duties, actively managing the project timeline, and all assigned activities. This person will work collaboratively with staff and faculty located on the Elizabethtown College campus as well as with staff and faculty located at the Greenway Institute in Vermont. They should be able to work closely with grant personnel to create comprehensive action plans concerning resources, budgets and timeframes for projects. Project Coordinators perform various coordinating duties such as scheduling and risk management.
For full consideration, please upload cover letter, resume and include (3) professional references on application.
Job Duties
Under minimal supervision of the Principal Investigator, the Project Coordinator will work independently to:
- Assist the PI and project team in collecting and organizing all project related documents and data, including keeping financial and purchasing records, and any grant-related reports to NSF
- Facilitate communication between Greenway Institute and members of the Elizabethtown project team.
- Facilitate communication and budgetary transfers/payments between Greenway Center and Elizabethtown College
- Arrange meetings/events for the research team including team meetings and recruiting events. Tasks include monitoring attendance, arranging rooms, ordering food, facilitating parking, and facilitating Zoom videoconferencing as needed.
- Assist the project team in recruiting students, including advertising and processing applications.
- Assist project team in compiling project reports for the project evaluation and annual reporting
- Monitor grant expenditures and budget, including overseeing disbursement and record keeping; creating purchase orders or using credit cards for local project supplies; monitoring expenditures including reassigned time and faculty summer pay; ensuring that appropriate reimbursement occurs for routine items used by project faculty in participating departments
- Work with Elizabethtown Business Office to ensure appointment/payment for vendors and personnel.
- Assist the project team in communication, including working with the Greenway Center on press releases, maintaining project webpage, and social media.
- Make travel arrangements, enter travel authorizations and process expenses
- Assist team members when preparing applications for supplemental or additional funding or no cost extensions
- Monitor a shared email inbox for the project
- Create, organize and maintain shared files and tasks on Microsoft Teams or Sharepoint
- Other duties as requested or approved by PI, related to this grant
More about the National Science Foundation’s ( NSF ) Broadening Participation in Engineering Grant . . .
“With the help of this grant, we hope to reimagine engineering education around our shared commitments to equity and sustainability. We will expand the participation of historically underrepresented students in engineering, including students of color, women and rural students. And, our innovative program will prepare all students to design and build a more just and sustainable future,” Elizabethtown College Dean of the School of Engineering, Math and Science, and grant Principal Investigator Sara Atwood said.
The Greenway Center for Equity and Sustainability (GCES) will be an innovation center that re-designs and re-centers engineering education around sustainability and core equity practices that empower students from underrepresented groups. The grant will help fund:
- An immersive “sustainability semester” in Vermont where engineering students from around the country engage in hands-on engineering projects that introduce them to principles and practices of sustainability
- A first-year of immersive, team-based, hands-on engineering education for students admitted to Etown’s engineering program
- Project-based professional development for K-12 teachers in collaboration with the Etown Masters in Curriculum and Instruction
“The Greenway Center for Equity and Sustainability addresses our two biggest imperatives for engineering education: closing opportunity gaps for historically marginalized students and preparing the next generation of engineers to tackle the complex, multidisciplinary challenge of designing and building a sustainable future. Because historically marginalized groups, including communities of color and rural students, are often the first and most harmed by failures to think sustainably, the challenges of equity and sustainable engineering are one and the same,” said grant o-PI Greenway Institute co-founder and former Secretary of Education of Vermont, Rebecca Holcombe.
Elizabethtown College will offer ABET-accredited engineering courses through the GCES at a site in Vermont. The two institutions will partner with a vision to provide the best undergraduate engineering education in the country through a unique hands-on, immersive, sustainability, and equity-focused education program that prepares future engineers to imagine, design, and build communities that are better for the people, the environment, and a vibrant economy.
“Elizabethtown College and Greenway Institute have a longstanding relationship based upon past work and faculty engagement,” Atwood said. “Both institutions are committed to providing students with hands-on, project-based learning models and to conducting research that addresses the barriers students often encounter in engineering education due to socioeconomic, gender, rural and racial disparities.”
Required Qualifications
Project management
Microsoft Suite proficiency
Ability to work remotely
Scheduling
Microsoft Suite proficiency
Ability to work remotely
Scheduling
Preferred Qualifications
Grant management
Recruitment skills
Passion for the sustainable engineering
Recruitment skills
Passion for the sustainable engineering
Physical Demands
N/A
Posting Detail Information
Posting Number
AS565P
Open Date
04/18/2023
Close Date
Open Until Filled
Yes
Special Instructions to Applicants
About Elizabethtown College
Elizabethtown College, located in south central Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a private coed institution offering more than 60 health, science, engineering, political science business, communications, fine art and music, humanities, and education degrees. Discover more at
etown.edu.
EEO Statement
Elizabethtown College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, and providing equal opportunities and access to all qualified applicants regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, age, marital status, disability, or veteran status.
Status
Hours Per Week
5-20
Work Schedule
varied
Salary per hour
$30-$50
Annual Salary
N/A
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