Cohort Lead

Rebootkamp "RBK" we are an authentic, passionate and creative software development training center and we are seeking to hire a qualified Cohort Lead.

Responsibilities :

• The Cohort Lead duties will include, but are not limited to :
• Lead the 5-6 person instructional team.
• Promote RBK’s method of Guided Discovery across the instructional team.
• Train and coach Tech Mentor, Counselor and Student Experience Coordinator.
• Promote Extreme Learning.
• Be well versed in program delivery approaches and standard methodologies.
• Lead student experience and program success through classgroup, and individual reflection sessions-wide, small.
• Stay on top of the perceptions and feelings and needs of the class. Handle difficult issues such as , group conflicts, and truancy.
• Be accountable for the success for all metrics pertaining to the cohort, including placement rate, satisfaction ratings, starting salary, health and happiness of students.
• Responsible for the health of academic and cultural student pipeline from admissions through job placement.
• Understand what drives 5-star program reviews, strong academic results and successful job placement.
• Maintain accurate, deep, real-time data on how students are scoring across these dimensions, working with other members of the instruction team as required.

Required education, experience and skills :

• Have prior professional experience in roles such as teacher, facilitator, project manager, counselor, personal coach, personal trainer, actor / director etc.
• Excellent level in English.
• Trustworthy, confident public speaker with high social and emotional intelligence who can speak in front of groups large and small.
• Be committed to upholding and promoting RBK Values.
• Be a strong leader & people person.
• Be able to establish a strong presence in a group setting, facilitate conversation, manage several direct reports and exercise solid judgement.
• Be able to draw the correct conclusions about student academic and emotional performance.
• Predict needed job-seeker remediation and creates effective action plans accurately and easily.
• Be able to work with diverse staff, students, and stakeholder groups (execs, alums, partner schools, etc).
• Be a versatile writer: Able to craft clear, succinct, tactful, effective and situationally appropriate writing styles (e.g. instructional emails, discussion follow-ups, process documentation, etc.).
• Be an effective verbal communicator: Able to guide expectations, provide pushback for unreasonable requests in a ‘tough-but-fair’ manner, and guide student attitudes toward growth mindsets.
• Be an empathetic and compassionate listener: Able to exercise active listening and guide students towards deeper understandings of their experiences.
• Be a strong well-being & emotional support coach: Able to promote co-curricular student development of interpersonal and professional skills.
• Be detail oriented and systematic.
• Be data-driven: Able to distinguish between intuition and hard data, to ultimately utilize data analysis to make and execute decisions. Utilizes a data-driven approach to problem solving, iteration, and improvement.
• Be passionate about teaching: Excited by the prospect of helping our team educate the next generation of software engineers.
• While the position doesn’t require software engineering skills, you should have an interest/ability to learn the components that are necessary for success in this role (which will be supplied to you).
• Sense of humor is a must.
• Bonus: Experience with digital literacy training.
• Double bonus: Experience with constructivist pedagogies such as collaborative learning, fail-based learning, Agile / pair learning, problem / project-based learning.
• Triple bonus: expertise in Socratic dialog.