Program Manager, Network Convenings

To solve the world’s most pressing problems, we need tomorrow’s problem-solvers equipped with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) knowledge, skills, and inspiration. And tomorrow’s problem-solvers need excellent STEM teachers today to guide them. In 2021, Beyond
100K (formerly 100

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10) successfully met its first 10-year goal by preparing more than 108,000 excellent STEM teachers for America’s classrooms, surpassing the audacious goal set by President Obama a decade prior. To do this, we built a new type of networked-impact effort that rethinks how organizations collaborate, learn from one another, and together identify and tackle challenges that none could successfully address on its own.

We achieved this goal in the midst of a growing national teacher shortage and a global pandemic, uniting over 300 leading agencies and organizations and 3,000 individuals across the country to tackle something seemingly intractable — ending the STEM teacher shortage, so that all kids could have access to a great STEM education and contribute their spark to a brighter future.

Beyond
100K- To decide our next goal, we undertook a national, participatory listening process asking young people, primarily Black, Latinx, and Native American young people, to share their experience in PK-12 STEM education. More than 600 young people responded to our call. Their stories and the resulting goal position us to decrease the STEM teacher shortage and center belonging, while focusing on the students, teachers, and schools that have been the least well-served in STEM education.

By 2032, our goal is to increase student and teacher belonging and to reduce the shortage by one-third, mobilizing a growing network to prepare 150,000 STEM teachers and retain 150,000 STEM teachers beginning with schools in Black, Latinx, and Native American communities — where the shortage has been the hardest to solve.

How we work now
- We pursue that goal through our whole network programming as well as our CoLabs: bounded communities of partners who go deep on one high-leverage challenge. Four CoLabs are underway:
Classrooms of Belonging / AI, Foundational Math, Dream to Teach, and Teacher Work Environment, surrounded by whole-network programming that helps partners find one another, share what works, and carry it into the field while anchoring in our moonshot goal.

The Network Community Team is focused on how partners find their way into Beyond
100k, how they meet each other and connect in the network, and design community building experiences that strengthen connections and relationships between partners so that good work travels without us in the middle. We are seeking a Program Manager to lead the experience design of our whole-network convening spaces: the gatherings, spaces of learning, inspiration, and connection that turn more than 250 partner organizations into an actual network rather than a list.

The core of the role is designing how we bring people together both in person and virtually. You will design and manage our network gatherings including our flagship annual summit, regional meet-ups, virtual learning sessions, and strategize with the network community team to develop pathways for partners to deepen their engagement through 1:1 connection, our virtual community platform, and through deeper engagement into our micro-communities.

Expected travel is 10-15% and includes bi-annual team retreats, our annual Summit and partner convening, regional meet-ups, and select in-person partner engagements. The Program Manager sits within the Network Community Team, and reports to the Associate Director, Network Development & Impact.

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