Education Program Administrator

Job Title: Education Program Administrator

Type: Full-time

Start: August 2026

About Solar One

Solar One is a 501c(3) organization that empowers communities in the New York City metro area to thrive in the face of the challenges brought on by climate change and embrace a world that is low-carbon, resource-efficient, and socially inclusive.


Founded in 2004 to manage Stuyvesant Cove Park, a two-acre native plant park and small environmental education center, Solar One has grown into an award-winning organization with a thriving array of programs. Solar One's mission is to design and deliver innovative education, training, and technical assistance that fosters sustainability and resiliency in diverse urban environments. We empower learning that changes how people think about energy, sustainability, and resilience by engaging and educating diverse stakeholders and beneficiaries.

Job Summary

The Green Design Lab (GDL) is Solar One's educational department. The education program administrator will play a critical role in ensuring smooth day-to-day operations for our education programs (Environmental Education Center, Career & Technical Education, and STEM Education). This position supports program delivery by managing and improving administrative systems, coordinating logistics, handling invoicing and purchasing, and maintaining records. This position will work onsite at our Solar One Environmental Education Center in Manhattan. A driver's license is required.

Job Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the purchasing of programmatic expenses, tracking, and inputting receipts into expense management software
• Inventory supplies such as teacher toolkits, teaching materials, worksheets, etc
• Organizing documents for invoicing program partners
• Assisting with data management related to programmatic metrics
• Assisting with analyzing and visualizing post-program survey data
• Renting a Zipcar or a U-Haul to deliver program supplies to schools, as needed.
• Collaborate with Solar One operations, fiscal, and development to support Solar One and ensure the Green Design Lab is complying with procedures, invoicing, purchasing, and providing records as requested.
• Respond to basic inquiries from teachers, schools, and community partners.
• Organizing photo drives, ensuring media release forms for participants.
• Collecting paperwork for summer camp programming

Qualifications and Skills

Successful candidates for this role should be able to demonstrate the following:

• 2+ years of experience in an administrative, coordination, or operations-based role.
• Associate's degree or higher education preferred.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong customer service skills, comfortable interacting with educators, families, and students.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Google Suite, including Calendar, Docs, Spreadsheet, and Drive.
• Maturity and ability to work independently.
• NYS driver's license required.

Pay and Benefits

Pay starts at $59,000- $62,000 per year.

We offer a variety of benefits depending on the position type. Our full-time benefits include:

• This position is a full-time position
• Health care and well-being programs, including medical, dental, vision, EAP
• 4 weeks of paid time off that increases with tenure
• Life and disability insurance
• Paid Holidays
• 401(k) retirement savings

Solar One is an equal opportunity employer. Solar One strives to increase diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice across all elements of our work and with our partners to support the interdependent needs of renewable energy, resilience, and people in a rapidly changing world. Solar One recruits and employs through a lens of equity and encourages people of all races, religions, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, genetic information, service in the uniformed services, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law to apply.