The Program Manager will lead a collaborative initiative that brings together graduate students and K-12 educators to produce open-source learning materials meant to support the teaching of late ancient and medieval world history in New Jersey. The Program Manager will be responsible for content creation, market research, project management, event planning, and building relationships with key partners across the state of New Jersey. They will plan and supervise collaborative workshops in which content-expert graduate students will work directly with K-12 educators to produce learning materials directly relevant to NJ state curricular standards for the teaching of late ancient and medieval world history. The Program Manager will also have final responsibility for overseeing the creation of an open-access website to host LAMPE's learning materials, and for ensuring the highest standard of quality for the published products.

• Leading a collaborative development team of LAMPE fellows recruited from Princeton graduate students to create open-source digital learning modules on late ancient and medieval topics relevant to New Jersey state curricular standards.
• Researching and generating materials and establishing formal specifications for all materials included in the digital learning modules.
• Designing on-campus and virtual workshops in which graduate students and K-12 educators will collaborate directly in the creation of these digital learning modules.
• Partnering with other institutions and interested parties including the National Council for the Social Studies, the New Jersey History Education Council, Princeton Teacher Prep, the Medieval Academy of America, and other relevant conferences and professional gatherings.
• Supervising the creation and management of a project website that will host the digital learning modules, professional development exercises, links to other relevant resources, and more.
• Following up with collaborating K-12 educators to gather information on the classroom implementation of project materials, and making iterative improvements to those materials in response to teacher feedback.

Essential Qualifications

• PhD in History, with at least 7 years relevant research experience and teaching experience in Medieval Studies

• Excellent writing ability

• Excellent communication skills

• Project management skills

• Experience with digital learning environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with K-12 programming

• Event-planning experience

• Experience overseeing website development and management

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