Position Summary:
Project FLEX seeks an ambitious, justice-oriented, and collaborative individual to join a team of faculty and graduate students to serve as a project manager overseeing a sport-based leadership program for incarcerated youth. The project manager will help ensure overall program success through a diverse set of duties. Fit within the specific team setting will be prioritized, along with relevant experiences.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Research Duties
- Conducting evidence-based research, including idea conception, data collection, and data analysis.
- Packaging findings into peer-reviewed research.
- Traveling to conferences to present research findings.
- Researching funding opportunities and grant writing.
- Program Delivery
- Delivering sport-based leadership content to incarcerated youth onsite AT youth detention centers.
- Co-creating programming and supervising graduate students program delivery.
- Assessing programming through program evaluation methods.
- Spearheading on-campus events showcasing university life to incarcerated youth.
- Innovation and Program Growth
- Recruiting prospective graduate students.
- Identifying support agencies and forging community-based partnerships.
- Marketing program outputs to stakeholders.
- Developing strategies to encourage new or increased contributions of program.
- Securing commitments of participation or donation from organizations.
- Other related duties as assigned
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree or Doctoral degree.
- Experience managing / supervising students.
- Professional experience in the field.
- Record of scholarly collaboration in the field.
- Experience writing grants and obtaining external funding.
- Individuals identifying with underrepresented classes are encouraged to apply.
If interested, please see the following link for more information:
https://employment.niu.edu/postings/76502
