Moringa School, founded in April 2014, plays a crucial role in developing and nurturing highly potential individuals who are passionate about technology and want to take a lead role in mobile and web development through equipping them with lifelong skills.
This role, Data Science Technical Trainer, involves leading and coordinating all classroom training activities for a specific class of students, ensuring their success and happiness. This position requires deep technical expertise in data science and professional coding, combined with excellent mentorship and interpersonal skills.
Responsibilities (What You Will Do)
- Lead and coordinate all classroom training activities for your class.
- Take responsibility for class and student success and happiness.
- Conduct weekly 1:1 meetings with students, including personal check-in and independent project review.
- Perform disciplinary follow-up for all incomplete independent projects.
- Perform disciplinary follow-up for all academic and interpersonal issues.
- Fill out and maintain student tracking, and create detailed plans for the success of all students.
- Raise red flags early when students are not on track!
- Kick off and run all daily activities, such as daily standup, peer review hour, etc.
- Master Technical Mentor (TM) responsibilities and processes to ensure quality is maintained.
- Once TM mastery is achieved, iterate on processes such as classroom structure, curriculum, etc., by providing good feedback and insights, conducting calculated experiments, and updating documentation.
- Engage in personal professional growth: Moringa is part of your professional journey. It is up to you to decide how you want to grow through that journey, and to continuously improve in doing your work using the tools at your disposal.
Required Qualifications and Experience (What You Have)
- 5+ years of experience working, with at least 3+ years of professional coding experience in languages used in the classroom.
- Bachelor's degree (BA/BSc/HND) in a related field.
- Possess lots of patience and empathy, and the ability to work well with and accommodate the needs of other people.
- Exhibit strong problem-solving abilities to handle complex situations involving many people.
- Ability to work with and mentor large, diverse groups of people.
- Be a positive, empathetic, team player with a systems mindset.
- Ability to multitask and strategically solve diverse problems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Coding school alumni.
- Experience teaching, working in education, or program management.