Udacity
Job title:
Session Lead (External Contractor) – Digital Marketing Nanodegree (USA)
Company
Udacity
Job description
About Us
Udacity is on a mission to change lives, businesses and nations through radical talent transformation in digital technologies. We offer a unique and immersive online learning platform, powering corporate technical training in fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Autonomous Systems, Cloud Computing and more. Our rapidly growing global organization is revolutionizing how the enterprise market bridges the talent shortage and skills gaps during their digital transformation journey. Udacity is proud to be backed by respected investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, Bertelsmann and Drive Capital, among other leading VC firms, and provides a powerful and differentiated solution inside of a $32b total addressable market opportunity. Udacity has more than 100 enterprise customers including Airbus, Bertelsmann, BNP Paribas, Leidos, Mazda, and the United States Air Force.
Position overview:
OneTen, the Blacks In Technology Foundation, and Udacity are partnering to offer 2,000 fully funded scholarships to train and empower members of the African American community without a four-year degree and to reshape the tech industry in America. As a part of this, we want to extend an opportunity to you to become a Session Lead with Udacity. Session Leads are industry professionals who provide world-class technical support to our learners in their Nanodegree journey. All our session leads are handpicked through a rigorous selection process so that we can truly be #studentfirst.
As a Session Lead/Instructor, you will be meeting virtually on a weekly basis with your students for group work, activities and weekly checkpoint sessions. During the week, students are expected to study an estimated 10 hours on their Nanodegree programs on their own, and you will be expected to respond to their technical questions and check-in with them to make sure they are making progress.
Required skills/qualifications:
- Residing in the United States of America/Canada
- Proficient in the English Language.
- Technical competence: Content Marketing, Social Media Advertising, SEO, SEM, Display Advertising, Email Marketing and Google Analytics
- 2+ years of working experience related to the above skillsets.
- Graduate from Digital Marketing Nanodegree Program is an added plus
- Experience teaching technical concepts and public speaking
- Strong interpersonal skills and confidence to lead a group of students
- Students-oriented mindset and focus on understanding their problems
- Innovative approach and proactivity with students that need help
- Positive character, trusted by the students, creating emotional ties in the group
- Existing tech network and experience in technical conversations & discussions
- Flexibility at their current job to take this challenge as a part-time, external contractor
Responsibilities:
- Managing weekly Checkpoint sessions with students according to Udacity guidelines
- Coordinating between the students and the Udacity Connect team
- Reporting to Udacity the weekly overall attendance status of students & observations about each session
- Explaining concepts of the Nanodegree program to your group of students when needed
- Solving questions raised by students during the Checkpoint session
- Reporting student attendance and progress to the Mentor’s dashboard
- Communicating with students on Slack
Why should you apply?
- Earn additional income
- Contribute to a vibrant, international student community
- Stay updated with the latest in cutting-edge technologies
What We Do
Udacity’s mission is to train the world’s workforce in the careers of the future. We address the complex dynamic of workforce challenges and strive to be the change we need in the world to transform talent to create opportunities for heightened productivity and retention. Udacity is where lifelong learners come to learn the skills they need, to land the jobs they want, and to build the lives they deserve.
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Expected salary
Location
USA
Job date
Thu, 28 Dec 2023 01:02:54 GMT
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