Job Description
General Description
The Tech Talent Pipeline is launching the Residency Program’s 4th cohort, an internship placement program at John Jay College. We seek experienced teaching assistants for a 10-week full-stack coding bootcamp. We will hire one (1) Instructor and four (4) Teaching Assistants and one (1) Lead Teaching Assistant. All must have high-level JavaScript experience and classroom experience. All will lead project work and facilitate tutorial and project completion with around 40 CUNY computer science majors. This bootcamp will require some in-person days.
Reports To: Program Manager, TTP Residency at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Timeline: Anticipated timeframe June 5, 2023 – August 25, 2023
ABOUT THE TECH TALENT PIPELINE: The NYC Tech Talent Pipeline (TTP), an initiative of the WDC, is the City of New York’s tech Industry Partnership, launched in 2014 by Mayor Bill de Blasio to support the inclusive growth of the NYC tech sector and prepare New Yorkers for 21st-century jobs. The NYC Tech Talent Pipeline works with 385+ companies, 17 local colleges, and additional public and private partners to define employer needs, develop training and education models to meet these needs, and scale solutions throughout the city, delivering quality talent for the city’s businesses and quality jobs for New Yorkers.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assist and support the lead instructor during live web development instruction
- Maintain organization of the bootcamp through class management, group delegation, and other administrative duties
- Help students to break down the concepts they learned in class and deliver instruction to address individual skill gaps
- Support students with building group projects in class, and completing individual projects
- Assist students with online tutorials (such as Facebook's tic tac toe React project)
- Review and grade the assignments submitted by the students, including pre/post assessments & capstone projects
- Track student academic performance and engage with students to help them successfully complete their training
- If needed, help with designing assignments and updating the curriculum
Other Duties
- Supervise (4) Teaching Assistants including scheduling
- Teach sections of the course if the lead instructor is absent
- Understand student group and individual needs and assign tutors accordingly
- Manage and answer daily help tickets during learning sessions and project sessions
Qualifications
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Experience in delivering computer science instruction to a live audience
- Mastery of full-stack web development (React, Node/Express), PostgreSQL, Sequelize, Mongo DB, and mobile technologies
- Mastery of Git and industry GitHub workflows
- Experience teaching or learning in a hybrid environment
PREFERRED
- Familiarity with security practices, Heroku/Surge, AWS, and Docker
- Prior experience working as a teaching assistant in CUNY or a Bootcamp
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.
RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
Department of Mathematics and Computer S
Full Time
$35.71-$35.71
Aug 01, 2023 (Or Until Filled)