\nThe Role\n\nThe goal of the Career Coach is to ensure students are supported as they start to think about their next professional steps and graduates are prepared and confident in their job search.  A balance of ensuring that graduates are empowered to find jobs in a timely manner, as well as find roles that they are passionate about, is critical for this role.\n\nThis is a part-time, remote contract position with a 6 month duration. \n\nSpecific Responsibilities\n\n\n* Manages a robust pipeline of students and graduates in our immersive programs through scalable and innovative programming initiatives, one-on-ones, employer engagement\n\n* Responds to students and job seeker needs to identify challenges and mitigate areas of struggle to develop cohesive and intentional action plans\n\n* Strives to understand and engage the local tech scene and incorporate this community and perspective as much as possible.\n\n* Serves as an accountability and thought partner to students and local GA teammates (Instruction, Admissions, Marketing) and communicates a consistent, thoughtful, and unified message\n\n* Delivers meaningful programs that meet the Outcomes Baseline Commitment and incorporates the 5 Themes to Outcomes Success to reinforce best practices and empower job seekers to lead a successful and strategic job search\n\n\n\n\nCore Responsibilities \n\n\n* Job Coach & Career Counselor - Ensure all job-seeking students & graduates have a smooth transition from the classroom to job seeking and that they feel supported during this process. Reduce anxiety for students & graduates around their job search through clear communication.  Help students identify their personal goals to best impact their job search & educational experience.\n\n* Content Delivery - Educate students & graduates of immersive programs on skills needed to transition careers into tech and perform an effective job search. Lead both recurring one-on-one sessions and group facilitation based programming with our Flex students (who take our immersive program outside of their Full-Time job responsibilities. Be available and willing to flex your schedule to start the day later and deliver weekly pre-scheduled evening workshops.\n\n* Career Content Creation - Work with teams at GA that are responsible for curriculum to highlight updates as needed and create new student-facing resources. Be a key thought partner in the curriculum and resource creation. Continuously innovate on career resources and programming.\n\n* Internal Team Connector - Utilize and coordinate with GA community resources as needed to acquire additional educational opportunities (mock technical interviews, project feedback, etc.)\n\n* Risk Management - Track student progress and highlight to teammates and stakeholders when a student isn’t doing well or falling out of communication.  Also, ensure that we’re putting quality, qualified grads into our community.\n\n\n\n\nSkills & Qualifications\n\n\n* Familiarity with the tech (software engineering, data science/analytics, UI/UX) landscape; previous experience working in some facet of the tech industry. Awareness of the tech job market and breadth of opportunities.\n\n* Passionate about education, technology, and careers. \n\n* Previous higher education, tech recruiting or career counseling/coaching experience a plus.\n\n* Comfortable presenting both one-on-one and delivering to a large group.\n\n* Able to give constructive, positive feedback to people of diverse professional and life backgrounds.\n\n* Previous personal job search experience, and an ability to be relatable.\n\n* Resourceful; able to pull educational resources from the community and to tailor lesson plans/meetings based on graduate needs.\n\n* Able to manage a large volume of requests and organize systems to keep track of students in various stages. Highly organized & data conscious.  \n\n* High emotional intelligence; able to empathize with others and can handle other people’s stress.\n\n\n\n\nCompetencies\n\n\n* Customer Focus - Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions.\n\n* Interpersonal Savvy - Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.\n\n* Instills trust - Gains the confidence and trust of others through honest, integrity, and authenticity.\n\n* Ensures Accountability - Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.\n\n* Communicates Effectively - Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.\n\n* Drives Results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.\n\n\n\n\nThe anticipated annualized hourly range for this position in the US market is $40.00/hr and $45.00/hr. Salary will be determined based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors. If hired as a regular full-time employee, this position will include a variable compensation plan which could be a bonus or a commission.\n\nUS benefit offerings for full-time employment may include medical, dental, vision, term life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, commuter benefits, wellness plans & reimbursement and retirement programs.  Available paid leave may include paid time off, parental leave and holiday pay.\n\nThe salary range published in this job posting is for US based locations only. Non-US based candidates interested in this position can email [email protected] for country-specific pay range details and benefits offered.
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNew York City, New York, United States

\n\nSince 2011, General Assembly has transformed tens of thousands of careers through pioneering, experiential education in today’s most in-demand skills. As featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times, GA offers training in web development, data, design, business, and more, both online and at campuses around the world. Our global professional community boasts 40,000 full- and part-time alumni — and counting.\n\nIn addition to fostering career growth for individuals, GA helps employers cultivate top tech talent and spur innovation by transforming their teams through strategic learning. More than 21,000 employees at elite companies worldwide have honed their digital fluency with our corporate training programs. GA has also been recognized as one of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, and Fast Company has dubbed us leaders in World-Changing Ideas as well as the #1 Most Innovative Company in Education.\n\nIn this 10-week part-time course, students learn to code, speak the language and implement their own designs by learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We are looking for an instructor to lead this transformative experience through General Assembly’s part-time Front-End Web Development course.\n\n\n\nSkills and Qualifications\n\n\n* You are eager to shape the skills, minds, and trajectories of eager General Assembly Students.\n\n* You are the person that your colleagues naturally gravitate to when they are trying to figure something out.\n\n* You have at least 3 years of experience in Front-end Web Development.\n\n* You have understanding in the following topics: HTML/CSS (strong/expert understanding) and JavaScript/jQuery (intermediate understanding).\n\n* Nice to have: UX design experience.\n\n\n\n\n\nEssential Responsibilities and Duties\n\n\n* Teach 3 hours per evening, 2 days a week, for 10 weeks.\n\nInstructors will need to commit a few hours per week preparing lessons and materials, leveraging existing GA curriculum content.\n\nWork alongside GA staff and teaching team to best meet the needs and learning styles of your students.\n\nGuide students through development of a stellar final project that will showcase their abilities to hiring managers.\n\nFacilitate a dynamic and collaborative classroom community.\n\nInspire students to persevere through the challenges of learning a new suite of skills \n\n\n\n\nSan Francisco, Remote:  Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.\n\nLos Angeles, Remote:  Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.\n\nIf you are a Colorado applicant, you are eligible to receive information about the salary range and benefits for this role. Please contact [email protected] for details.\nGeneral Assembly is a licensed school in all states that we operate in, and some states require instructors to be licensed to teach. If hired, you will be required to submit and be approved as an instructor in relevant states. Directions for becoming licensed will be shared with you during onboarding. Licensure requirements vary by state, but you may be required to provide academic transcripts and to answer questions pertaining to moral character, professional conduct, education, and work history. General Assembly will pay for all licensing fees.\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Analyst, Finance, Non Tech, Sales, Angular, Senior, Legal, Engineer, Design, InfoSec, Python, Testing, Cloud, Linux, Digital Nomad, Amazon, Consulting, DevOps, Teaching and Education jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nWho Are We?\n\nSince 2011, General Assembly has transformed tens of thousands of careers through pioneering, experiential education in today’s most in-demand skills. As featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times, GA offers training in web development, data, design, business, and more, both online and at campuses around the world. Our global professional community boasts 40,000 full- and part-time alumni — and counting.\n\nIn addition to fostering career growth for individuals, GA helps employers cultivate top tech talent and spur innovation by transforming their teams through strategic learning. More than 21,000 employees at elite companies worldwide have honed their digital fluency with our corporate training programs. GA has also been recognized as one of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, and Fast Company has dubbed us leaders in World-Changing Ideas as well as the #1 Most Innovative Company in Education.\n\nIn this immersive educational experience, students engage in the user experience design process, developing the skills and portfolio of a junior practitioner. We are looking for instructors to lead this transformative experience through General Assembly’s User Experience Design Immersive course.\n\n*This UXDI Instructor Lead will be working PST hours*\n\nWhy Teach the User Experience Design Immersive?\n\nIf you are looking to make a life-changing impact by doing what you know and love, this is the position for you. Through this unparalleled opportunity, you will:\n\n\nWork closely with one or more co-instructors to guide students through a rigorous, transformational journey where they begin as driven novices and leave as empowered designers\n\nBecome a better leader, and mentor as you learn from veteran instructors and our world-class instructional coaches.\n\nInspire and support students as they identify their passions and drive their own continued learning beyond the curriculum.\n\nAdapt our global curriculum and use it to guide your teaching, building your own lesson plans as needed and contributing back your lessons learned over time.\n\nFacilitate a safe, supportive, and energetic community that welcomes the various needs and learning styles of your students.\n\n\n\n\nSkills and Qualifications\n\n\nYou are eager to shape the skills, minds, and trajectories of the newest generation of user experience designers.\n\nYou are the person that your colleagues naturally gravitate to when they are looking for guidance.\n\nYou have at least 3-5 years of experience working in user experience design.\n\nYou have fluency in some or all of the following topics: the UX Process, User Research and Personas, Usability Testing, UX Analysis, Information Architecture, Interface Design, Wireframing, Prototyping, Analytics and Optimization, Mobile UX, and/or HTML/CSS.\n\nYou have previous user experience design teaching experience, through a course, team training, mentoring, etc.\n\n\n\n\nResponsibilities and Duties\n\n\nTeach Monday-Friday, all day, for the 12 week duration of the program\n\nInstructors will need to commit a few hours per week preparing lessons and materials, leveraging existing GA curriculum content.\n\nWork closely with co-instructors or teaching assistants to provide students with meaningful and prompt feedback on their progress.\n\nWork alongside GA staff and teaching team to best meet the needs and learning styles of your students.\n\nGuide students through development of a stellar final project that will showcase their abilities to hiring managers.\n\nFacilitate a dynamic, collaborative, and positive classroom community.\n\nInspire students to persevere through the challenges of learning a new skill set\n\n\n\n\nCompetencies\n\n\n\n* Directing Others\n\n\n\n\n\n* Approachability\n\n\n\n\n\n* Technical Skills\n\n\n\n\n\n* Motivating Others\n\n\n\n\n\n* Facilitation Skills\n\n* Time Management\n\n\n\n\nIf you are a Colorado applicant, you are eligible to receive information about the salary range and benefits for this role. Please contact [email protected] for details" \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Jira, Python, Senior, Engineer, SEO, Mobile, Legal, SaaS, DevOps, Education, Cloud, Software, React, JavaScript, Travel, Salesforce, Marketing, Sales, Copywriter, Video, Ecommerce, Finance, Backend, Test, Java, API, Medical, Digital Nomad, Director, Design, Teaching, Assembly and Junior jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nCalifornia City, California, United States