Director of Programs, Teaching and Learning

Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education & Human Development advances research, experiential learning, and community engagement in education and human development. The Director of Programs will lead program development, coordination, and implementation across the Center for STEM Professional Learning at Scale, while supporting partnerships, facilitator network engagement, proposal development, and operational processes.

Responsibilities:

• In collaboration with the Center Director, manage partnership development activities, including preparing materials, coordinating meetings, documenting follow-up, and maintaining the partnership pipeline
• Assist the Center Director with cultivation and coordination of institutional, nonprofit, industry, funder, school/district, and research partnerships that support Center initiatives
• Prepare partner-facing materials, including presentations, scopes of work, concept notes, briefing documents, summaries, and implementation plans
• Oversee contracted-service, sponsored-project, grant-funded, and philanthropic opportunity development by coordinating timelines, drafting materials, gathering inputs, and working with appropriate BU offices
• Implement strategies to activate and engage the Center’s 400+ member NGSX facilitator network as a professional learning community
• Coordinate facilitator network activities, including communications, meeting logistics, participation tracking, scheduling, materials, and follow-up
• Oversee facilitator-led initiatives by coordinating timelines, deliverables, materials, communications, and documentation
• Maintain quality standards, procedures, templates, and support tools for facilitator-delivered programming
• Gather facilitator feedback and track engagement, retention, geographic reach, programming activity, and participation data
• Coordinate planning and implementation of Center initiatives across NGSS Phenomena, NGSX, Project Resilience, and related professional learning or AI-enabled teaching tool projects
• Translate Center priorities into project plans, timelines, deliverables, workflows, and implementation supports in collaboration with the Center Director
• Help develop professional learning pathways, educator-facing resources, partner-facing materials, and implementation tools based on research findings and field implementation learning
• Coordinate across Center staff, BU Wheelock colleagues, affiliated faculty, facilitators, consultants, and external partners to support timely completion of project activities
• Track project progress, gather feedback, maintain documentation, identify implementation needs or risks, and prepare updates for the Center Director

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in education, a science discipline, or a related field
• Three to five years of relevant experience in program coordination, project management, education programs, professional learning, nonprofit administration, higher education, or a related setting
• Master's degree in education or a related field
• Experience in K–12 education, STEM education, teacher professional learning, curriculum implementation, or education-focused nonprofit work
• Experience supporting grant, sponsored-project, or proposal development processes
• Experience coordinating external partnerships, school or district relationships, facilitator networks, communities of practice, or professional learning programs
• Experience working in a university, research center, grant-funded program, or externally funded project environment