Education Coordinator
Location: Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Easton, Maryland
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Pickering Creek Audubon Center seeks an Education Coordinator to move its extensive outreach and field trip education program into the future. The Education Coordinator will serve in a leadership role to ensure quality programming throughout each facet of the center as well as the two other centers of Audubon Maryland-DC. Located on a tidal tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, Pickering Creek Audubon Center's 400 acres are a microcosm of Maryland's Eastern Shore providing an outdoor classroom visited by over 16,000 students and adults each year. Individual will promote Pickering Creek as a model “Audubon Center” in the context of National Audubon’s goal to establish 1000 community-oriented centers across the nation by 2020.

Essential Functions:

• Work with local school systems and education organizations to maximize Pickering Creek Audubon Center's exposure to a diverse audience.
• Hire, train and manage environmental education interns.
• Train formal and non formal educators on Center’s published curriculums.
• Maintain and enhance existing curricula.
• Work with other staff members to develop and implement creative public programming.
• Work with staff to develop agriculture education programming.
• Assist with program budgeting and funding development.

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Equipment: (e.g., computer, typewriter, calculator, copy machines, telephone, etc.)

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We seek a creative, knowledgeable and hardworking person dedicated to education and the environment.  Must have three years teaching, management experience and curriculum development.  Proven abilities in designing, writing and evaluating environmental education curricula, lesson plans and activities.  Proven skills teaching in formal and informal settings to a variety of audiences. Desire to connect children of all ages to nature a must. Grant writing and other forms of fundraising desirable.

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Commensurate with experience. Please include your salary requirement in your letter. Competitive benefits package.

Pickering Creek Audubon Center serves over 16,000 visitors each year. We teach students from nine Maryland counties, and are fully integrated into the Talbot County Public School system. Students have access to classes that run a range from farm and garden through wetland ecology.  Hands-on field experiences provide meaningful outdoor experiences that correlate with student’s school curriculum. School programs at Pickering Creek build student’s relationship with the Chesapeake Bay and foster academic achievement. In addition to our successful school programming, Pickering Creek offers a wide range of activities for individuals and families. Programs encompass the garden, adventure, wellness, and natural history. Both our school and community programs give the public an opportunity to experience the wonder of nature, and to gain a better understanding and appreciation for the land.

The National Audubon Society's mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the Earth's biological diversity.

Audubon promotes a diverse workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the National Audubon Society to employ the man or woman best qualified for the job regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability (handicap) or marital status.