Now Hiring: Graduate Consortium Manager
Are you passionate about the American founding, the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence? Are you interested in ensuring the rising generation learns about America’s history, core documents, and shared values? If so, this opportunity may be for you.
About the Jack Miller Center
The Jack Miller Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting education in America’s founding principles and history, an education vital to thoughtful and engaged citizenship. We work to advance the teaching and study of America’s history, its political and economic institutions, and the central principles, ideas, and issues arising from the American and Western traditions, all of which continue to animate our national life. We support professors and educators through programs, resources, fellowships, and more to help them teach our nation’s students.
About the Founding Civics Initiative:
The Founding Civics Initiative is the Jack Miller Center’s project to support K-12 civics educators through high-quality professional development programs and classroom resources. This growing initiative at JMC emphasizes the importance of teaching founding documents to middle and high school students, deepens K-12 teachers’ understanding of the content they teach, and builds a community of educators committed to meaningful civics education for the next generation.
Position overview
The Graduate Consortium Manager will manage the expansion of JMC-supported graduate education opportunities for civics and U.S history teachers nationwide. The Manager’s primary responsibility will be the support and expansion of JMC’s Civics Foundations Graduate Consortium, a unique partnership of universities committed to teacher graduate education in the American political tradition. This is a rapidly growing area in the Founding Civics Initiative that requires a hard-working and dedicated manager to help the Graduate Consortium to grow and achieve its long-term goals.
Work Location: Remote work arrangements will be considered, though our preference is for candidates who can work in our office in Bala Cynwyd, PA, a suburb outside of Philadelphia.
Reports to: Director of the Founding Civics Initiative
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Collaborate with JMC faculty partners to develop graduate course opportunities for teachers and to add university members to JMC’s Graduate Consortium.
- Evaluate JMC-supported graduate courses through surveys, participant tracking, and ongoing communications with teachers.
- Draft grant proposals and reports for foundations and individual donors who support teacher graduate courses in conjunction with JMC’s External Affairs team.
- Draft and edit regular email communications for JMC’s network of teachers and professors as well as relevant publicity materials.
- Conduct targeted research on issues related to the graduate education of civics and history teachers nationally and in specific regions.
- Assist in the maintenance and improvement of JMC’s website.
Skills and Requirements
- Commitment to the mission of the Jack Miller Center
- Bachelor’s degree; master’s degree or higher preferred
- 2-5 years of work experience in higher education or related fields
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to do occasional travel
- Self-motivated; ability to work independently as well as part of a small team
- Detail-oriented, strong time-management skills, and ability to prioritize work
- Collaborative team player with the ability to successfully engage with colleagues across the organization
- Ability to interact professionally with professors, donors, and other individuals involved in our efforts
- Flexibility and adaptability with job requirements and workflow
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Familiarity with Salesforce, Adobe Acrobat, and/or Mailchimp a plus
Benefits
The Jack Miller Center offers an excellent benefits package that includes a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, generous paid time off, smart phone reimbursement, and group medical, vision, dental, and life insurance.
How to apply
Qualified candidates should email the following application materials in one PDF with his or her name in the file title and “Graduate Consortium Manager” in the subject line to Lauren Altobelli at laltobelli@gojmc.org:
While we thank all applicants in advance for their interest in this position, we are only able to contact those to whom we can offer an interview.