Job description:
In this role, you will be delivering face-to-face coding education at our physical campus in Cape Town. You will support our learners by guiding them on their course content and coding projects, holding group lectures, helping solve student queries, and giving quality feedback on students code on a daily basis. You will be part of a team building the most affordable on-site code-learning experience to remove existing barriers to accessing coding education, and teaching these skills to people from diverse cultures and backgrounds.In this role, a typical day would include some or all of the following:
- Delivering the HyperionDev course content in the form of lectures and tutorial sessions
- Developing lecture content, mini-lessons, presentations on a weekly basis as per a structured learning path and in response to student needs
- Reviewing code solutions submitted by students and providing them comprehensive feedback in line with our specialist code review process
- Overseeing the progress, performance, and journey of your students on a monthly basis all the way to graduation (within 3 months or 6 months of enrolment, depending on the cohort)
- Providing high quality guidance and support to students via face-to-face sessions as well as through chat, emails, online tutorial sessions, and 1:1 calls
- Identifying and implementing new strategies for improving student completion, retention and graduation rates
- Reviewing and updating course content and teaching methods
- Assisting the Education Lead in new strategies for improving the pedagogical processes of our coding bootcamps to improve student completion rates and retention
Requirements:
Essential
- Holding a degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science Education, or a related field
- 1+ years of teaching or tutoring experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A problem-solving and positive attitude
- Functions well independently
- Fast learner, meticulous attention to detail
- Ability to craft, collate and maintain student data for informing pedagogical processes
- Start-up mentality and the desire to see the team succeed
- An interest in education, particularly coding and tech education.
Preferable
- 1+ years of teaching web development or a core programming language such as Java or Python
- Experience designing and developing interactive learning experiences
- Active involvement in local and international tech communities
- Professional experience in Android, Data Science, or Web Development
- Knowledge of Ruby, DevOps, MERN / MEAN stack.
About company:
CoGrammar is an edtech startup that is dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap. We achieve this by integrating human mentorship and code review into the world's leading tech education brands. CoGrammar has also built and scaled its own coding education product - HyperionDev - which supports learners from over 40 countries in changing into fulfilling tech careers. HyperionDev rebranded to CoGrammar in August 2018.CoGrammar is recognised as one of the top edtech startups in Europe, Middle East, and Africa and in 2016 won first prize in Facebook's Innovation Challenge, gaining financial backing from both Facebook and Google. CoGrammar was originally launched from the University of Cambridge by Computer Science graduates and our senior leadership comprises of world-leading talent out of places such as Google, Amazon, Groupon, and 2U. We're a people-first company with a purpose that underlines everything we do. We're obsessed with the potential in people and challenge them to do their best work. We embrace a culture of growth and learning to deliver on our vision and ours is a relentless quest for improvement.