Web Development Instructor (Part-Time, Contract)

Job title: Web Development Instructor (Part-Time, Contract)

Job description: About The Role:

Journey Education is looking for an experienced, energetic, full-stack web developer with an interest in teaching. As a Web Development Instructor, you will be responsible for leading lectures on various web development topics, assigning course work, grading, and mentoring students on a 1-1 basis. You will work as an instructor for our (a partnership between us and Concordia University) and have a direct impact on changing peoples lives through education.

This is a part-time position, contractual position.

Class Schedule: Tuesdays + Thursdays, 6:30-10pm plus Sundays 10am-5pm

Prep Work: 3-5 hours per week

Contract Start Date: February 13, 2024

Contract End Date: October 10, 2024

Pay Rate: $15,000-$19,000 for full length of contract

Responsibilities:

• Teach a class of beginners with the goal of ensuring they graduate ready for junior level roles in Web Development
• Act as coach/mentor to students as they work their way through the course
• Care profoundly about every student’s success
• Present lectures on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, GitHub, NodeJS, EJS, React, Redux, Data Persistence and more
• Communicate regularly with the Administration Team to provide ongoing updates on the students’ process and feedback
• Follow each student independently and ensure that they develop a mastery of the subject matter

About You:

• Experience teaching, coaching, managing, mentoring, or supporting junior developers
• 5+ years of experience as a Web/Software Developer
• Outgoing, personable, friendly and empathetic
• Comfortable explaining difficult concepts because of your ability to dissect and disseminate them into bite-sized, understandable ideas
• Well-versed in both front-end and back-end development, namely React, Node, Express, MongoDB
• Strong active listening skills and ability to motivate
• Ability to help all students equally – both those that are excelling and those who are falling behind, with patience, kindness and empathy
• Lifelong learner who loves sharing their learnings and experiences with others
• Loves the idea of helping people lead better lives through education

About Journey Education

Journey provides digital skills training with courses, workshops, and events all offered online. Our product lineup currently includes courses in Web Development and Data Science, with new products on the way. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, Journey works with highly experienced instructors to develop cutting-edge, real-world training and meaningful educational products that help people unlock their potential.

At Journey, we are building an environment where our employees feel included and heard. Diversity and inclusion are important to us and we strongly encourage applications from minorities, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.

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