Careers

Population Connection is a unique organization with a professional and dedicated staff that is passionate about population stabilization, environmental protection, social justice, and health and well-being. We have 40,000 members and thousands more supporters and participating educators working together to build a more sustainable future for all of our planet’s inhabitants.

Education Program Associate

General description

The Education Program Associate works as part of a dynamic team to market, coordinate, and facilitate in-person and online teacher training workshops, manages volunteer workshop facilitators, and develops and promotes the program’s K-12 teaching resources. More information about the program is at www.populationeducation.org.

Responsibilities include

Oversee all program activities within a region of the U.S.
- Conduct outreach within the region to market professional development workshops to university pre-service programs.
- Coordinate and schedule professional development workshops for staff and volunteers at conferences, universities, and school districts.
- Manage relationships with members of our national volunteer trainers’ network.
- Prepare workshop materials and complete post-workshop reporting.
Manage the logistics of Population Education (PopEd) sessions that take place during AP Summer Institute events. This includes conducting outreach to College Board Consultants; scheduling, setting up and preparing materials for in-person and online workshops; and facilitating the follow-up and reporting of completed workshops.
Facilitate interactive virtual, and hands-on in-person, workshops throughout the U.S. and Canada for current and future teachers. Expectation to travel out of state on approximately six week-long trips/year.
Assist with the planning and presentation of national and regional “Train the Trainer” Institutes.
Staff exhibit booths at education conventions, requiring out-of-state travel 1-2 times/year.
Contribute to the development of new curriculum materials and projects, such as writing classroom lesson plans, student readings, and developing web-based resources.
Write posts for the PopEd blog.

General requirements

Relevant professional experience (K-12 formal or informal teacher, adult education/training). Ability to manage and organize large amounts of details, and accurately maintain records. Service mindset and interpersonal skills to connect with volunteers and workshop hosts. Skill and experience in public speaking, and oral and written communication. Understanding of and enthusiasm for environmental and population issues. Ability to travel independently. (Driver’s license a must.) Good sense of humor, creativity, and flexibility.

Location

This position is based in Washington, DC, with a current hybrid work schedule (2 days in the office; 3 at home).

About the Population Education program

Population Education, a program of Population Connection, provides K-12 teachers with innovative, hands-on lesson plans and professional development workshops to teach about human population growth and its impacts on the environment and human well-being.

Compensation

$65,000-$75,000, commensurate with experience; competitive benefits package.

Application instructions

Send resume and cover letter to jobs@popconnect.org.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Population Connection is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and organization’s achievement as well.

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.

Population Connection’s diversity initiatives are applicable—but not limited—to our practices and policies on recruitment and selection, compensation and benefits, professional development and training, promotions, transfers between departments, social and recreational programs, layoffs, terminations, and the ongoing development of a work environment built on the premise of gender and diversity equity that encourages and enforces:

Respectful communication and cooperation between all employees
Teamwork and employee participation, permitting the representation of all groups and employee perspectives
Work/life balance through flexible work schedules to accommodate employees’ varying needs
Employer and employee contributions to the communities we serve to promote a greater understanding and respect for diversity

All employees of Population Connection have a responsibility to treat others with dignity and respect at all times. All employees are expected to exhibit conduct that reflects inclusion during work, at work functions on or off the work site, and at all other organization-sponsored and participative events.