Educational Technologist/Specialist at LMI – NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement

LMI is seeking an Education Technologist/Specialist at our headquarters office in McLean, VA. This position will support NASA’s workforce experience activities for students grades K-16 with a STEM focus. 

LMI is a consultancy dedicated to powering a future-ready, high-performing government, drawing from expertise in digital and analytic solutions, logistics, and management advisory services. We deliver integrated capabilities that incorporate emerging technologies and are tailored to customers’ unique mission needs, backed by objective research and data analysis. Founded in 1961 to help the Department of Defense resolve complex logistics management challenges, LMI continues to enable growth and transformation, enhance operational readiness and resiliency, and ensure mission success for federal civilian and defense agencies.  This position requires the ability to obtain a public trust clearance. 

LMI has been named a 2022 #TopWorkplace in the United States by Top Workplaces! We are honored to be recognized as a company that values a people-centered culture, and we are grateful to our employees for making this possible!

• Support a career learning/workforce development internship program to engage students, educators, and faculty, with a special emphasis on recruitment to those from underrepresented and underserved groups.
• Support student-authored and independently conceived graduate research proposals.
• Support and assist in the use of NASA-provided online application and registration system for NASA internships, fellowships, academic, research, professional development opportunities, and other learning experiences.
• Research government science content and educational best practices around identified themes or missions to support professional training, STEM engagement, citizen science, engineering design challenges, and virtual learning opportunities.
• Adhere to government STEM curriculum development guidelines including beta testing and the use of focus groups to optimize content prior to release.
• Provide design and delivery of curriculum, guides, lesson plans, support materials and professional development for formal and informal learning communities.
• Expand the reach of educational projects and content by scaffolding and demonstrating research-based effective practices in the delivery of STEM content, presentations, and programming.
• Develop tests, questionnaires, and procedures that measure the effectiveness of curricula, and use these tools to determine whether program objectives are being met.

• B.A. or B.S. degree
• 5 years of work experience
• Ability to develop a variety of written and presentation-based work products and deliverables
• Ability to work in a team-based environment
• Ability to travel to and work on client sites as needed
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and presentation skills
• Excellent customer relationship management skills
• Ability to obtain a public trust clearance

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