Job description

We are looking for developers (in training) who like to help adults learn programming online as a community coach for a (fixed) morning, afternoon, evening or day of the week.

At the Bit Academy, we train the programmers of the future together with the business community. With a strong focus on peer-to-peer education, learning by doing and autonomy, a student obtains a full MBO diploma within 3 years. The close collaboration with the business community ensures that education remains up-to-date. The students are motivated to get a little better every day and we help them with this. When they are finished with the Bit Academy, they can start their career with full confidence.

'Lifelong learning' is an important theme for the Bit Academy. Because even after your MBO study you have to continue to develop yourself in order to remain relevant. That is why the Bit Academy participates in the NL Leert Door program. This is a government subsidy scheme that allows adults to follow an online course for free. Within this scheme we offer the 10-week training junior data engineer and full stack web developer, in which a large number of participants are now participating with great pleasure.

During these 10 weeks, a participant with a fixed group has an online meeting of 2 hours every week. Learning is promoted by being part of a fixed group. Outside of this online meeting, a student can always contact our Online Learning Community (in Slack) with questions. Here, other participants and community coaches are ready to help. There are also several live coding sessions every day. In this, the community coach further explains certain techniques in a Zoom call. The community determines through a poll the subject of this live coding session.

What are you going to do?

As a community coach you help the participants to become better programmers. You learn programming by doing, so we also focus on this: the participant must produce, not consume. Our teaching material is constructed in such a way that a participant can move through it independently. Is a participant stuck or does he/she need help for another reason and are they unable to reach an agreement with fellow participants? Then you are there as a community coach to help the participant get back on track. This can be by answering questions in the online learning community, or by calling them via Zoom. We are constantly adding new education (assignments) to the training. You will also help us develop this.

Responsibilities:

• You are (one of) the coach(ess) of an online community with more than 400 members
• You ensure that participants who get stuck can continue by answering
• their questions
• You know how to explain complicated concepts in a simpler way
• You give live coding sessions to the community online (via Zoom)
• You like helping people learn to program
• You like to develop education

Requirements

Skills

• Sound IT knowledge (such as PHP, Databases, JavaScript, Object Oriented
• Programming) and/or thorough Data knowledge (Python, SQL, Pandas, Seaborn, Jupyter
• notebook)
• Able to give presentations
• Being able to give feedback
• Promote teamwork
• Being able to stimulate, inspire and motivate people

What can you expect from us?

• A start training to get you ready for coaching
• Fixed training moments to brush up on your didactic skills
• A nice enthusiastic team
• Weekly checkins to discuss business
• An appropriate compensation