Pre-fellowship Learning Facilitator at Andela

About the Role

• The Pre-fellowship facilitator at Andela will be an essential part of Andela’s Talent team strategy. This is a critical role at Andela as the success of our Bootcamps depend on the quality of developers that we admit through programs that an individual in this role will run
• S/he would report to a Lead Learning Facilitator within the Bootcamp team,  and work closely with other Facilitators, Community Managers e.t.c to set objectives, priorities, and implement and monitor program execution.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating and leading hands-on workshops for community members and aspiring Andelans,  using Andela’s Homestudy Curriculum, and other Andela recommended or curated learning resources.
• Ensuring that learners develop technical and team skills in alignment with Andela’s developer framework.
• Tracking and managing learners engagement, learning velocity by ensuring that they complete their assessments on time and to a certain quality as guided by Andela principles and the design for the program being led
• Identifying learners who are fit for Andela Bootcamp after a certain period as guided by Andela’s hiring plan.
• Collaborating with the Curriculum team to provide insight into how our learning resources are being used, their efficacy, and how they could better support the learning of community members and aspiring Andelans.
• Gather, document, and surface critical feedback for program efficacy and iteration
• Deliver actionable feedback and watch people improve based on your input
• Continuously level up your own skills and grow with/into the organization

Requirements
Intermediate level experience with the following:

• Building web applications, using modern HTML/CSS & JavaScript
• Building web application backends using Node/Express and a relational database for persistence
• Facilitating or leading hand-ons technical sessions of workshops, e.g in community events
• Giving and receiving actionable feedback in a learning environment, and being guided by empathy
• Andela EPIC Values alignment
• Ability to support learners in a distributed environment
• Demonstrable commitment to the learning & development of people by applying feedback and technology
• You are biased towards action. You take action first and improve on the actions for optimal results.
• You possess excellent organizational skills and ability to communicate with people from diverse backgrounds and experience, as well as manage their expectations
• You drive results in a valuable way and can get things done. You are self-driven and have great follow-through.
• You take initiative and have ownership. You can resolve issues and know when to escalate.

Benefits & Compensation

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Breakfast, lunch and snacks provided daily
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
• Oh, and a chance to change the world!