HAPPENINGS

As an Education Specialist, you will perform the following duties:

– Develop, manage and implement sanctuary-site management plans and educational programs for the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa Tauese P.F Sunia Ocean Center. Assist in implementing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) requirements under the America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science (America COMPETES) Act.
– Foster an environment of shared goals and enhanced productivity with partner institutions. Coordinate site education efforts, communicating across regional sanctuary sites, National Ocean Service (NOS), NOAA, and stakeholder partners. Establish long and short-range education and outreach goals and objectives for the ONMS education program at headquarters and sanctuary sites, including specific action plans to meet office-wide strategic milestones. Manage, assess, and recommend actions to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries’ (ONMS) education team activities and programs and Kindergarten through 12th grade programs. Provide recommendations and reports for office-level leadership that assess and evaluate the most effective educational tools for ONMS priorities.
– Manage, develop, coordinate, conduct, and evaluate teacher lesson plans and student activities that enhance learning and advancement of marine science education. Incorporate climate change and ocean acidification into educational programming. Train teachers and partner educator and students in formal and informal settings. Teach Robotics Operate Vehicle (ROV) in schools and the community to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Conduct routine maintenance on the Science on a Sphere, and install software updates to ensure operability and optimum performance. Resolve network and connectivity issues, set up projectors and telecoms for public meetings, and maintain the Science on a Sphere, a room-sized, global display system that projects visualizations of planetary data onto a six-foot diameter sphere to help illustrate Earth System science to people of all ages.
– Develop, coordinate, conduct, and evaluate sanctuary education and outreach events and products that are part of the ONMS education program. Coordinate volunteer and intern program activities.