Environmental Education and Science Coordinator

About the Role

The Puget Sound Estuarium is hiring an Environmental Educator & Science Coordinator to help coordinate and deliver our education programs for schools, families, youth, adults, and community partners. This position is the primary operational anchor for the Education Department. The role helps ensure that school programs, field trips, Sound Path education programs, camps, public programs, and partner-based learning experiences are scheduled, prepared, staffed, tracked, and delivered effectively.

This is not only a teaching position. It is a coordination-heavy role that also includes direct environmental education. The position is estimated at approximately 70 percent education coordination and program operations, 30 percent environmental education and direct program delivery. The successful candidate will be organized, reliable, communicative, and comfortable managing program details while also teaching in classrooms, on shorelines, at field sites, and in community settings.

Education Coordination and Program Operations

You will coordinate the systems that allow education programs to happen smoothly from inquiry to delivery.

Responsibilities include:

• Maintain the education program calendar using 60–90+ day planning windows.
• Schedule school programs, field programs, public programs, camps, teacher trainings, STEM Cafés, STEAM nights, and partner-based learning activities.
• Confirm dates, times, locations, group sizes, accessibility needs, staffing needs, and program expectations.
• Serve as the routine contact for teachers, schools, and program partners.
• Send preparation information to teachers and partners before programs.
• Follow up after programs when needed.
• Identify staffing needs and help assign Contract Educators to approved programs.
• Provide Contract Educators with lesson plans, field roles, safety expectations, and program materials.
• Track Contract Educator availability, readiness, reliability, and post-program paperwork.
• Prepare education kits, field supplies, curriculum materials, and program resources.
• Keep curriculum kits stocked and ready for teacher requests.
• Maintain organized program folders, supply lists, lesson plans, partner notes, and checklists.
• Document recurring processes so the department is not dependent on memory.
• Support a stable weekly program review and preparation process.
• Communicate scheduling conflicts, capacity concerns, safety issues, or partner concerns to the Executive Director.

Program Promotion and Revenue Support

Education programs are also an earned-revenue stream for the Estuarium. This role includes a relationship-based program sales and revenue-support function. This is not a hard-sales position. However, the coordinator must be comfortable helping schools and partners understand how Estuarium programs align with their learning goals, curriculum needs, and field experience opportunities.

Responsibilities include:

• Communicate the value and educational alignment of Estuarium programs to schools, teachers, and partners.
• Help match schools with appropriate in‑school, field‑based, and Sound Path learning experiences.
• Support the conversion of program inquiries into scheduled programs.
• Identify opportunities to repeat, expand, package, or improve programs.
• Track program attendance, dates, schools, districts, counties, and participation numbers.
• Help ensure paid programs are scheduled, delivered, documented, and ready for invoicing.
• Support documentation needed for grants, contracts, sponsor ships, and reports.
• Help reduce missed revenue caused by poor follow-up, unclear records, or unprepared delivery.
• Alert the Executive Director to larger partnership, contract, sponsorship, or revenue opportunities.

Data, Reporting, and Program Quality

The Environmental Educator & Coordinator supports accurate program tracking and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities include:

• Track attendance and participation numbers.
• Record school, district, county, and program type information.
• Collect teacher, participant, and educator feedback.
• Maintain basic program outcome records.
• Support grant reporting and board reporting with accurate program data.
• Support a culture of consistent data…