Program Manager
Company: Freelancingforgood
Location: Washington
Posted on: June 1, 2025
Job Description:
EarthGen is looking for a Program Manager to join their team in
Washington. This could be remote, hybrid or in-person, but must be
based in Washington and able to come into the office at least
quarterly.Overview:
- Full-time position
- Language: English
- Location: Washington; could be remote, hybrid or in-person, but
must be based in Washington and able to come into the office at
least quarterly
- Salary: $65,000 - $75,000 per year
- Applications closing: until filledJob DescriptionThe Program
Manager works collaboratively with program staff to create, manage,
support, and evaluate educational programming for teachers,
students, and schools in order to advance EarthGen's
mission.Equipped with environmental and climate education expertise
and a strong commitment to equity, the Program Manager will help
EarthGen meet the unique needs of school communities furthest from
educational and environmental and climate justice.The Program
Manager oversees and supports programs held within our three focal
program areas: direct learning, curricular resourcing, and
collective action. These include projects such as EarthGen's
Climate Education (ClimEd), Stormwater Stewards, and Bilingual
Environmental Education. They oversee the creation and execution of
proposals, grants, and contracts and their respective budgets for
these programs. This person also oversees systems that support
outreach, evaluation and engagement analysis of programs.While
EarthGen staff will often work collaboratively to progress the
totality of our work, we are looking for a Program Manager to
support following areas of our work: migrant education,
bi/multilingual education, Native education, stormwater, youth
action and broadly, environmental and climate science education for
teachers and students.ResponsibilitiesProgram Development,
Implementation, and Evaluation:
- Manage, develop, adapt, and implement place-based educational
resources in environmental and climate science, and social justice,
driven by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and other
relevant standards/guidelines
- Create and share classroom resources, in-person and virtual,
that engage students to learn about and address local environmental
and climate issues
- Co-design and co-facilitate professional learning experiences
focused on climate change and climate justice with an emphasis on
educator relationality and expertise, social-emotional wellbeing,
critical reflection, and iterative practice through cohort-based
experiences
- Ensure materials are OER compliant and ADA accessible
- Partner with contractors, community partners and EarthGen staff
to organize the design, build, installation, and stewarding of
green stormwater infrastructure installations at schools
- Meet/coordinate with partners at school sites, plan concept
designs, develop and implement feedback processes from greater
school community
- Coordinate and facilitate one to multi-day in-person
installations with school community and partners
- Oversee and manage program budgets
- Connect with external partners and leaders relative to climate
science education and subsequent program development
- Learn from and convene climate science and climate science
education experts
- Attend regular meetings with partners to create efficient and
collaborative work
- Coordinate regularly with an external evaluator to develop an
annual plan and evaluate all programs according to organisational
learning questions and indicators
- Initiate and develop partnerships with the Office of
Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), school districts,
Educational Service Districts, tribes, corporate partners,
governmental agencies, and other community-based
organisationsOutreach & Systems Management:
- Promote events, courses, and offerings via in-person meetings,
emails and other forms of communication
- Partner in the development of program systems development and
implementation centered around EarthGen's values of equity,
community, collaboration, growth-mindset and integrity
- Monitor and manage current systems to ensure their accuracy of
program engagement dataAdditional Responsibilities and Duties:
- Support EarthGen's Development and Communication efforts
through meetings with consultants and grantees, attending and
coordinating development events, drafting promotional materials,
writing thank you cards to donors and program partners, inviting
program partners to fundraising events, etc.
- Send outreach emails for programmatic events
- Partner with Communications to share EarthGen successes with
various audiences online, in-person, and in print
- Support development-related events, including recruiting school
staff and students to participate
- Purchase materials for programs
- Print materials
- Travel via bus or car during nights and weekends as often as
multiple times a month depending on the time of the school year
(ex. October and April)
- Pick up rental cars, drive rental cars, arrange for travel and
lodging
- Meet at school to receive truckloads of construction and
installation project materials
- Process a high amount of information quickly and organize it
into tangible work plans for a team on Google Drive or Dropbox
- Manage multiple, overlapping, and demanding deadlines using an
online program management system, AsanaRole RequirementsWe are
looking for candidates with following skills and experience:
- Bachelor's degree in science education, environmental science
or related field (Master's preferred)
- 3+ years of experience in educational programming or
nonprofit
- Teaching credential/experience helpful
- Ability to hold space for educators' social-emotional,
psychological, and intellectual responses to (in)justice, identity
work, and other challenging topics
- Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills;
cultural sensitivity, curiosity, and humility; high level of
comfort speaking in public
- Able to work with data and numbers, especially in tracking
program evaluation data, outputs and outcomes
- Experience developing high-quality environmental education
materials for school settings
- Familiarity with public education system in Washington
state
- Ability to communicate effectively in different ways (via
email, phone, text, Zoom, in-person), including across sectors (ex.
Teacher vs. construction worker)
- Manage political or other dynamics with carrying out
programming around climate change and social injustice
- Willingness to learn computer-based systems, including:
Salesforce, Canvas, Asana, Gusto, Abacus, Harvest, SurveyMonkey,
Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft Office Suite, ZoomHow to
apply?Email a cover letter that speaks to your experience and a
resume to with the subject line: PROGRAM MANAGER.We must have both
the cover letter and resume for you to be considered.
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