Director of Education

“Center for Wildlife Studies’ global mission is to provide accessible environmental education and promote wildlife conservation through science.”

Position Description
By 2025, the Center for Wildlife Studies (CWS) will offer more than 60 online, in-person, and hybrid courses, as well as two professional certificates in Applied Quantitative Ecology and Conservation Planning. We are seeking a Director of Education to join CWS’s executive team to help manage, promote, and grow our globally recognized education program.

Duties

• Help manage and recruit a world-class team of instructors
• Work with the executive team in designing professional certificates, degree programs, and special projects
• Supervise course development and delivery workflow with course and web designers
• Develop and revise organizational policies and SOPs related to the education program
• Manage student records and course accounting in collaboration with Finance and Accounts
• Manage instructor contracts
• Manage tables and present at professional conferences and meetings
• Stay up to date with pedagogical theory and developments in education and LMSs
• Review courses and staff performance, and identify areas of improvement

Minimum Qualifications

• A minimum of an M.S. in a field related to the environmental sciences or education
• Strong desire to assist in the growth of a fast-paced, dynamic nonprofit organization
• Experience teaching at the undergraduate or graduate level
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• First-class organizational skills with care for details
• Experience working through complex problems

Ethics, Values, and People Skills

• Passionate about environmental education
• Confident in engaging individuals from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines
• Direct and transparent communicator
• High degree of integrity and trustworthiness
• Creative, collaborative, open, and energetic
• Uses tact and diplomacy in difficult interactions
• Strong sense of personal ownership and commitment to quality and success

Other Favorable Experience and Attributes

• Ph.D. in a field related to the environmental sciences or education
• 3 years of teaching at the undergraduate or graduate level
• Experience in a supervisory administrative role
• Interest and willingness to teach
• Willingness to operate with a team mentality and step outside of their role as requested
• Entrepreneurial interest
• Experience drafting organizational policies
• Experience with database management
• Experience with Asana, Slack, and R

Salary, Benefits, and More

• Salary commensurate with experience; starts at $60,000
• Full employment benefits, including health insurance, 401k (up to 4% match), and PTO
• Flexible, family-friendly work environment
• Reports to the President

Why Work for CWS
Traditional academic institutions serve some people well, but many motivated learners are left behind, including those with financial challenges and inflexible work or school schedules. CWS aims to provide a worldclass education to the world’s environmental workforce at a fraction of the cost of traditional academic institutions.

CWS’s instructors are subject-matter experts who design and deliver courses to students, professionals, and those in between (e.g., school and work) to equip the world’s environmental workforce with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed at work and school. CWS also provides people from underrepresented groups full and partial scholarships through our World Scholars Program.

CWS values our staff. Many academic institutions increasingly rely on under-compensated adjunct professors who do not own the intellectual property they produce while employed. At CWS, we typically compensate our instructors at 2-5 times the rate of an adjunct professor and we never own our instructors’ course materials. We also provide a matching 401(k) retirement plan, health benefits, and PTO for all permanent staff.

CWS is a flexible, family-friendly workplace and is an equal-opportunity employer with a positive commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We do not permit discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin in our employment practices or the workplace and classroom.

Consider joining an organization that is rapidly growing and making a real difference in the world.  https://www.centerforwildlifestudies.org/careers