Education and Hardware Grants Coordinator
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This is a possible new position.
Specific duties: Education Coordination
- Work with staff members to improve educational aspect of volunteer programs.
- Recruit, train, and coordinate volunteer instructors for classes.
- Improve volunteer teacher retention.
- Create and document new classes
- Serve as a mentor for volunteer instructors
- Maintain website and wiki documentation for class descriptions and schedules
- Attend meetings as necessary.
Specific Duties: Hardware Grants Coordination
- Recruit, train, and coordinate Hardware Grants volunteers and volunteer interns
- Maintain website documentation related to hardware grants
- Create and maintain Hardware Grants documentation, including support and education for grant recipients
- Maintain feedback loop with grant recipients
- This may include,but is not limited to, occasionally working with the PR Committee to gather testimonials or other information, creating surveys, following up with grant recipients
- Research new avenues for hardware grants
- Evaluate incoming grants and disburse grants
Required knowledge, skills, and abilities:
- Teaching experience required
- Curriculum writing experience desired
- Basic computer knowledge: use of web browser, email, word processor, and spreadsheet.
- Ability to work in a consensus decision making process related to staff and policy issues.
- Patient and courteous with the public.
- Ability to work with and coordinate volunteers with a wide range of skills and experience.
- Able to work in an informal, friendly environment with a diverse staff
- Work well under stress in an unusual setting, maintaining a positive attitude even in the face of adversity
- Not afraid to ask questions, but able to work on projects almost entirely without supervision
- Able to remain flexible as Free Geek grows and changes