Project Coordinator Jobs

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.

JOB DETAILS:
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.

Under minimal supervision of the Principal Investigator, the Project Coordinator will work independently to:

“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:

“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.”