*** This role is 100% onsite in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Must be able to teach in-person Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 5:30pm ET. This is a temporary position from September 2024 - June 2025 ***.

As a Teaching Assistant for at Hackbright Academy, you will be instrumental in teaching and guiding students through their learning experience. You will be expected to work closely with education staff and leadership to review, critique, and help students with project work. The Teaching Assistant will also ensure that students understand what they should be working on, accomplishing their learning goals, and are understanding concepts taught in the curriculum.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Use your knowledge of the program curriculum as well as your best judgment on the ability of the typical student to collaborate with your leader on curriculum content and instruction.

• Occasionally deliver and facilitate course content using creativity and excellent communication skills. 

• Interpret, analyze, and address students’ needs during in-class exercises, project time. Contribute additional explanations and analysis on student questions during lecture discussions.

• Apply specialized knowledge of the program’s technology stack during work with individual students on projects. Analyze the quality of final student projects. Determine whether the correct principles are being learned and applied within each student project.

• Provide critical feedback to students during regular student reviews and critiques.

• Inspire students to move through the challenges of learning a new skill set.

• Collaborate effectively with other instructional staff to best meet the needs and learning styles of students. Use your best judgment to determine student needs with the rest of the staff and find the best way to support each student.

• Work with Instructors to craft meaningful and prompt feedback on students’ progress.

Job Skills:

• Has the ability to facilitate an engaging, innovative, and entertaining lecture, including explaining high-level technology concepts in a way that a beginner can understand.

• Skilled in all languages, frameworks, and other technologies within curricula, including full-stack web development, C#, .NET, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js, SQL, PostgreSQL database, Restful APIs, Entity Framework ORM, Azure Cloud, Testing & Version Control

• Is a proactive communicator that can use discretion effectively and also strives to be articulate in their speech towards students.

• Proficient in advanced computer skills, such as the use of command line, keyboard shortcuts, installation troubleshooting, and cloud-based coding platforms.

• Has either industry experience, a college degree, or a coding bootcamp certificate of completion in program-specific languages and technologies. If candidate is self-taught with no industry experience, can showcase at least 3 projects that demonstrate a high level of proficiency in the languages and frameworks they will teach.

• Able to learn on the fly, operative effectively with a high level of ambiguity or uncertainty during technical debugging, and also communicate in a way that reassures students with a high level of self-doubt or confusion.

Work Experience:

• Entry-level position

• 6+ months in an education system is a plus

Education:

• Self-taught developer, Bootcamp graduate, or equivalent degree.

Other:

• Must be able to teach on-site in Deerfield Beach, FL five days a week

• Typical office/classroom setting

• Mobility within the office including movement from floor to floor

• Must be able to work more than 40 hours per week when business needs warrant

• Access information using a computer

• Effectively communicate, both up and down the management chain

• Effectively cope with stressful situations

• Strong mental acuity and communication skills

• Regular, dependable attendance and punctuality are essential functions of this job

• Other essential functions and marginal job functions are subject to modification

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• SEI is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive community. We welcome applications from all. While it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the pay range at SEI, we offer a competitive salary and benefits package.  The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate may vary depending on multiple factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal pay equity. Our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to discuss your interest in joining SEI. The expected salary range for this position is below.

$40,900.00 - $61,500.00 - Salary

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete our application process, please contact our Human Resources Department at [email protected].