Director, Baxter Center Science Education

2 weeks ago

Evanston, United States Northwestern University Full time

The Baxter Center for Science Education at Northwestern University seeks a highly motivated, experienced, and talented individual to manage a collaborative team and direct a set of science education programs and school-university-industry partnership work in Chicago and Lake County area communities.

The Baxter Center for Science Education is a collaborative partnership between Lindblom Math & Science Academy, Round Lake Area Schools, the Office of Community Education Partnerships (OCEP) at Northwestern University, and Baxter International Foundation. The Baxter Center centers partnership work and educator professional development programs, focused on the specific needs of communities in Chicago and the greater region, to promote student success and equity in STEM education and career pathways. Through these mechanisms, the Baxter Center seeks to increase: 1) access, opportunity, engagement, and empowerment of youth in STEM—primarily youth from communities traditionally underrepresented in STEM, and 2) representation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in STEM fields and leadership roles. The Baxter Center is looking for a Director who prioritizes equity in education and embodies the Center’s values of respecting and elevating the expertise, autonomy, and challenges of educators.

The Baxter Center Director will collaboratively develop, oversee, and evaluate the Baxter Center’s suite of programs, partnerships, and staff. This includes providing strategic, responsive direction and thought leadership for the Baxter Center in the short and long term; nurturing and strategically developing equitable partnerships with school, university, industry, and community partners; enhancing the Baxter Center’s evaluation metrics and systems; and seeking resources to ensure the success of the Baxter Center. We especially seek a colleague with experience in strategic planning and navigating multiple organizational cultures (schools and districts, universities, corporations). Interested but not sure if this is you? Please apply All applicants will be considered.

**Specific Responsibilities**:

- Administration & Strategic Planning_
- Leads development and implementation of the Baxter Center’s strategic plan — a comprehensive, visionary strategy designed to continually improve programs and build internal/external engagement.
- Oversees day-to-day operations of the Baxter Center and its programs and events; provides guidance and support to staff in the creation of program components.
- Operationalizes goals and objectives for the Baxter Center, ensuring that needed resources are created or obtained.
- Oversees documentation of agreements between NU and partner institutions, ensuring that agreements are complete and reviewed by all necessary NU officials.
- Participates in developing IT strategy and infrastructure to meet the mission and needs of the Baxter Center.
- Budgets & Financial_
- Ensures that the Baxter Center meets associated expense goals.
- Partners with Principal Investigator (PI) to plan and manage a complex budget that funds the Baxter Center’s strategic mission, including financial sustainability and enhancement models.
- Oversees all financial activities including transactions, analysis, and reporting.
- Communication, Outreach, & Recruitment_
- Builds and maintains collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders to increase the Baxter Center’s profile, reputation, visibility and support, and to continue to innovate and enhance programs.
- Creates plans to drive awareness of the Baxter Center in appropriate markets.
- Directs the Baxter Center’s marketing/branding efforts.
- Oversees management of the Baxter Center website and other communications.
- Evaluation_
- Oversees development and implementation of evaluation processes, quantitative and qualitative measurements that ensure that program benchmarks are successfully attained and communicated in a timely and efficient manner.
- Manages evaluation processes; recommends and implements changes for enhancement; and monitors effectiveness through follow-up evaluation.
- Assesses programming and recommends changes that will innovate and invigorate programs, including cutting-edge developments in the field and changes to better meet external partners’ needs in order to achieve goals.
- Events & Program Development_
- Provides leadership for planning, scheduling, delivering, and maintaining events and programs to sustain quality instruction in all educational activity.
- Collaborates with internal/external partners to ensure that events are implemented and meet or exceed planned goals.
- Grants & Contracts_
- Partners with Principal Investigator (PI) to prepare grant proposals and reports.
- Partners with NU development office and PI to identify and seek program funding from diverse sources.
- Prepares results for use in grant documents and potential dissemination through presentations, technical reports, etc

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