Job Description
UX/UI Design Immersion Instructor - Contract
Description
Students enroll in Thinkful courses to gain the valuable technical and professional skills needed to take them from curious learners to employed software developers. As an Immersive Course Instructor, you will deliver high quality live workshop content based on existing curriculum, provide support to students in completing their daily tasks as well as capstone projects, and prepare students to successfully transition careers.
In addition to working directly with students, Instructors are expected to maintain an environment of regular, candid feedback with the Educator Experience team, and to stay on top of important updates via meetings, emails, and Slack. Ideal candidates for this team are highly coachable, display genuine student advocacy, and are comfortable working in a complex, fast paced, rapidly changing environment.
Responsibilities
- Delivers high quality workshops based on the curriculum materials, and provides live demos when appropriate, to supplement written materials and content to provide students with the skills and knowledge to get their first design job
- Maintains and updates the daily and weekly student syllabus which outlines the required homework and assignments, and deadlines for assessments and projects
- Maintains and updates the daily student performance and attendance documents, reports student status to the right teams and follows up on a timely manner to ensure students’ success
- Provides daily on-demand video and chat support for students as they move through the program assignments
- Spends up to 4 hours a day prepping for workshops and updating course materials as needed
- Works with the other Format Leads for engagement formats (Mentor Sessions, Group Sessions, Grading, Technical Coaching, Mock Interviews/Assessments) to ensure that consistent experience is happening for students in immersive courses
- Works with the Academic Success Management (ASM) team to ensure student success in a timely manner
- Provide constructive feedback to the Instructional Design and other teams on improvements to the course materials and curriculum based on student experience with the materials
Requirements- Available to instruct and support students Monday through Friday 9 am-5:30 pm ET
- Deep understanding of and ability to teach students to master:
- User Experience
- Visual Design
- Digital Design
- Design Systems
- Front End Design
- Usability
- Ability to comprehensively demonstrate and explain the design process, design thinking, and user-centered design.
- Portfolio of work representing user experience, visual design, front end design and development and usability.
- Experience using Design, User Experience and Front end Tools and technologies.
- Ability to champion and empower students
- Ability to help students recognize the psychology of design and user experience.
- Ability to create a responsive prototype using HTML and CSS, as well as basic DOM manipulation with JavaScript, or willingness and ability to learn via the curriculum.
- Ability to explain complicated topics clearly and without jargon
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience working in a remote environment and understanding how to collaborate and communicate in such an environment.
- High level of detail orientation and an exceptional work ethic
- Enjoy working with people, not just putting your head down and working
- Must have a reliable, high-speed Internet connection with clear audio and video in a non-distracting workplace
- Industry experience working in a leadership role such as a creative director, director of user experience or similar role.
- Teaching experience, especially in a remote or online class, is a plus
- Be comfortable and maintain composure working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Ability to raise and solve problem in a timely manner
- Ability to manage remote classroom without a lot of direct supervision
Why do we exist?
Students are working harder than ever before to stabilize their future. Our recent research study called State of the Student shows that nearly 3 out of 4 students are working to support themselves through college and 1 in 3 students feel pressure to spend more than they can afford. We founded our business on provided affordable textbook rental options to address these issues. Since then, we’ve expanded our offerings to supplement many facets of higher educational learning through Chegg Study, Chegg Math, Chegg Writing, Chegg Internships, Thinkful Online Learning, and more to support students beyond their college experience. These offerings lower financial concerns for students by modernizing their learning experience. We exist so students everywhere have a smarter, faster, more affordable way to student.
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