How You’ll Contribute

The National Geographic Society is an impact-driven global nonprofit organization that uses the power of science, exploration, education, and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonders of our world. The Education department serves this mission by amplifying and extending the work of NGS explorers into classrooms and communities, helping educators and young people develop an explorer mindset and inspiring them to learn about, care for, and protect our world. The department seeks to help the world understand the importance of geography - seeing the connections, interdependencies, and patterns that shape human and natural systems on our planet.

To accomplish its goals and to extend reach and impact, the Education Department (EDU) cultivates strategic partnerships; manages education-focused endowments, fellowships and grants; creates and disseminates education content and programs for Explorers and a K-16 audience domestically and internationally; connects Explorers to classrooms and communities; and engages youth in the mission by building Explorer-focused innovative, co-curricular opportunities. Building upon the Society’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion these educational resources and experiences elevate missing voices, bring a multiplicity of perspectives, and are accessible on a continuum of no-low-high tech capacities at scale across the globe.

The Coordinator, Youth Experiences serves on the Education Division’s Impact Partnership and Youth Initiatives Team and supports the build and implementation of Explorer-focused high-impact experiences that engage youth of all backgrounds in our mission and lead them to care and act on behalf of our planet and its people.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Youth Experiences, the Coordinator will play a critical role in facilitating coordinating work for youth experiences including, but not limited to, the Slingshot Challenge and Externships programs and their associated alumni audiences. The Slingshot Challenge is a global educational challenge that aims to inspire young change-makers ages 13-18 to use their voice and ingenuity to tackle the planet’s most pressing environmental topics. The Externships program offers young adults ages 18-25 from across the globe an eight-week virtual learning and leadership experience to equip them with the knowledge, tools, and relationships to seek solutions and take action in their communities.

The ideal candidate has strong experience coordinating logistics for opportunities for young people, performing outreach and recruitment to youth audiences, and supporting data analysis and evaluation reporting.

This is a fixed term position through 12/31/2025.

Your Impact

Your Impact

Responsibilities Include

Program and Project Support (70%):
- Executes administrative components of youth programs, including the Slingshot Challenge and Externships, under direction of program leads. This includes:
  - Programmatic administrative support: Assist with research, recruitment, and outreach efforts to support programmatic recruitment goals. Support event logistics, including travel coordination for attendees. Review submissions and applications from youth, respond to constituent emails, and support other administrative tasks as needed.
  - Youth programming support: Assist with executing workshop programming for youth 13-25 years of age, including presenter recruitment and preparation, technology set up and setting up calendar invites, run of show documents, and slide deck preparation.
  - Contracts and payments support: Support contract development and payment processing as needed in coordination with program leads and the legal and finance teams.

Evaluation Support/Content Development (15%)
- Contributes to the continuous learning and improvement of youth programs by performing select data analysis tasks and supporting content development related to program impact.
  - Support data analysis and reporting efforts: Gather and synthesize data for the Slingshot Challenge to help us build our understanding of various audience segments such as youth, educators, organizations, and alumni. Conduct research to answer key programmatic questions. Assess the data and reporting needs and opportunities for the team.
  - Tracking alumni impact: Assist with tracking program alumni and provide analysis and updates as needed to help evaluate impact.
  - Support impact storytelling: Help develop “stories of impact” related to participation in the youth programs by mining and synthesizing notes and other source documents and drafting summary language.

Team, Divisional and Organizational Collaboration (15%):
- Contributes to multiple initiatives across the Education team; serves on internal cross-platform workgroups to maximize strategy results and scale.
- Develops and maintains strong positive and empathetic working relationships with other NGS divisions and external teams.
- Contributes expertise to support divisional goals and processes as well as impact programs across the broader Education team.
- Supports a culture of inclusion, respect, empowerment, and accountability, while strongly promoting innovation.

Educational Background

Bachelor’s degree in related field.

Minimum Years And Type Of Experience

2+ years of experience in in an administrative role supporting education related project and program implementation

Necessary Knowledge and Skills

Possess strong logistical skills and high attention to detail.
Highly developed oral and written communication skills and ability to work with individuals and groups at all levels.
Ability to work on multiple projects, under deadlines, with changing priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Prioritize and manage tasks and responsibilities that span multiple teams.
Coordinating and managing appointments, meetings, and multiple schedules.
Comfort with creating and manipulating spreadsheets and organizing data.
Technical proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, and G-Suite tools.

Desired Qualifications

Experience working with youth including coordinating projects for youth leaders, youth challenges, or youth capacity-building programs. Spanish language skills preferred but not required.

Supervision

No direct reports

Salary Information

The National Geographic Society offers a competitive and holistic total rewards package. Our compensation structure and transparent pay philosophy are based on industry-specific market data for similar-sized nonprofit organizations.

The salary range for this position accounts for a wide range of factors including but not limited to organizational need; specific skill sets; experience and training; certifications; and more. At the National Geographic Society, individuals are typically hired at or near the starting point of the salary range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

The pay hourly range for this position is $23.75 - $25.00

In addition, the National Geographic Society offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package that includes, but is not limited to, medical, dental, and vision insurance; engaging and comprehensive wellness program; 401(k) retirement savings plan with matching contributions after 6 months of employment; flexible paid time off benefits with up to 22 days of paid annual leave per calendar year (15 days for new hires in their first year, prorated based on the number of pay periods remaining in the year) and 10 days of sick leave; 12 paid holidays and a paid winter break between December 25 and 31; paid parental leave, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility benefits; learning and development opportunities; Lifestyle Spending Account; pet adoption assistance and insurance; pre-tax transportation benefits with a generous employer subsidy; employer-paid life insurance and disability benefit; and a variety of National Geographic discounts and perks.

Job Designation

Hybrid - At the Society, we believe in the advantages of coming together to build community, mentor and learn from colleagues, and connect more deeply with our mission. As a result, the majority of our staff are Hybrid. Our Hybrid category requires that staff work at Base Camp two days each week: every Tuesday and Wednesday. Hybrid staff are also always welcome to come in additional days each week if preferred.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

We encourage you to apply even if your experience is not a 100% match with the position. We are looking for someone with relevant skills and experience, not a checklist that exactly matches the job description. We want to help you grow and in return, you help us grow into a stronger, more inclusive organization.

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