[Hiring] Director of Programs, Teaching and Learning @Boston University

Role Description

The Center for STEM Professional Learning at Scale is a research-informed innovation hub within BU Wheelock. The Center advances convergence education by connecting science learning to real-world questions, engaging educators as co-designers of innovation, and helping young people build the agency to shape their communities and futures.

The Center operates three interconnected platforms:

• NGSS Phenomena, a national innovation and discovery space with more than 5.3 million views across 100+ countries;
• NGSX, the Center’s flagship professional learning system, which has reached more than 17,000 educators across 29 states through a network of 400+ trained facilitators;
• Project Resilience, which connects this work to durable outcomes for learners and communities.

Together, these platforms create a continuous cycle of discovery, capacity-building, and impact, moving ideas from research into practice and from practice back into the field.

The Director of Programs directs program development, coordination, and implementation across the Center’s initiatives, while supporting partnership and proposal development in collaboration with the Center Director. This position will organize program activities, engage the facilitator network, coordinate partner-facing work, assist with proposal development, and develop tools and processes that strengthen the Center’s operations and external projects.

Qualifications

• Experience in program development and coordination.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience in partnership development and stakeholder engagement.

Requirements

• Full-time, 40 hours per week position.
• Remote work with occasional travel for partner meetings, facilitator network activities, conferences, and other Center-related needs.
• One-year, term-limited position with the possibility of extension based on performance, ongoing institutional need, and available funding.

Benefits

• Access to the University’s comprehensive benefits plan.

Essential Functions

• Partnership Support (40%)
  • 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.
• Facilitator Network Coordination (25%)
  • 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.
• Program Implementation and Resource Development (35%)
  • 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.