Program Manager

Program Manager, East Bay – Job Description

About the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival

The Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival (JRMF) is a nonprofit on a mission to help all students build confidence, joy, and a sense of belonging around math. We do this by hosting Math Festivals at schools, libraries, and other community centers. At a Math Festival, children and their families explore a variety of hands-on, play-based math puzzles and games led by trained volunteers from the community. A Math Festival is an opportunity for the whole community to come together and celebrate math.

As an organization, we make hosting Math Festivals affordable, equitable, and stress-free in the following ways:

• We provide free, DIY math puzzle resources through our website.
• We provide free event planning consultations over Zoom.
• We sell Math Festival kits that are 100% reusable and organized so that customers can host a Math Festival right out of the box.
• Schools and other communities can hire us to drive out to their site, bring our Math Festival supplies, and host an event for their families.
• We provide financial assistance to low-income schools so that every school community can afford a Math Festival.

Most people grew up seeing math as hard, boring, or scary, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Math Festivals give people an opportunity to play with math, make choices about their own learning, and collaborate with others to solve fun yet challenging problems. The Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival’s mission is to bring these experiences to as many people as we can and show every child that they are a mathematician.

Program Manager, East Bay

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Program Manager, East Bay will be in charge of the Math Festivals, workshops, and outreach events that bring joy into the lives of thousands of people in Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco County. In 2024, we hosted 44 East Bay events, reaching over 4,000 students, parents, and educators. Since the beginning of this year, we have already hosted 55 events for over 6,000 people, and we’re on track to serve twice as many people this year as we did last year. The Director of Programming, East Bay will take over the majority of these events and work to expand our impact in the coming years.

Key Responsibilities

Host Math Festivals throughout the East Bay. This includes:

• Driving out to schools and other community centers (within a 1 hour driving distance)
• Bringing Math Festival supplies (provided by JRMF) and setting up for events
• Training volunteers (Including parents, teachers, and older students)
• Supervising events and making sure everything runs smoothly

Manage the back-end logistics of hosting Math Festivals. This includes:

• Reaching out to past and potential Math Festival hosts
• Conducting Zoom and email consultations with Math Festival hosts
• Scheduling events and managing your event calendar
• Collecting and analyzing Math Festival data, including attendee data, surveys, and photos

Requirements

1) At least 5 years’ experience working with children in a school setting

• Recommended: Classroom teaching experience

2) Regular access to a car or vehicle that can transport festival supplies (an empty sedan or larger)

3) Strong communication skills (able to explain complex ideas to young children)

4) Strong public speaking skills (able to lead trainings for groups of parents, teachers, and/or students)

5) Strong organizational skills (able to schedule and manage the details of dozens of events at one time)

6) Love for puzzles, games, and math

Other Qualities and Characteristics

1) Excited and confident working with students of all ages (PreK-12 grade)

2) Excited and confident working with parents, teachers, principals, and other administrators who work in the public education sector

3) Flexible and quick to adapt to new situations (able to host events in a variety of different environments and handle unforeseen complications)

4) Recommended: Comfortable speaking Spanish

5) MIssion-driven with a strong desire to make the world a better place

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: From $50.00 per hour

Expected hours: No more than 20 per week

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule

Experience:

• Teaching: 5 years (Preferred)

Language:

• Spanish (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Alameda, CA 94501 (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $50