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BIT - Beam Institute of Technology offers technology-related courses to adults.

We work both with companies wanting to retrain their employees, as well as with individuals who are unemployed and looking for a career change or opportunity to advance their skills.

Training that we offer to companies is tailored to the needs of the client teams and held in a format of workshops to the short-term courses.

Courses that we offer to individuals are 6-, 9- and 12-month long and lay in the domain of web engineering and machine learning. We support our students with career and job search coaching.

BIT was founded in 2022 in Berlin: we are at our fast phase of growth. Our working culture is remote-first. Currently our team members are based in the EU.

Location disclaimer

We would appreciate the location of the candidate to be based in the Central European Time (CET) zone.

Reasons: our online classes are scheduled from 9.00 and 16.30 CET.

Tasks

Role

Support learning journeys of a group of students of a 6-month UX/UI engineering course.

This is an online full time program.

Classes are held via Zoom and taught in English.

During this course you train students on the following topics: UX/UI design fundamentals, prototyping, Figma, git, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, JavaScript, React, Storybook.

Responsibilities

• Conducting lessons online that are scheduled from 9.00 to 16.30 Central European Time zone (it includes 8 academic hours with breaks): delivering material, performing live demos, answering the questions, providing individual and group feedback.
• Facilitating students' group meetings (e.g. retrospectives by the end of each module).
• Keep the classroom a safe space for learning together: modulate group dynamics so it is a constructive atmosphere.
• If you work with another teacher: coordinating with them to provide smooth narration of the material.

Opportunity to make an impact

• Help people to advance in their career: change profession, learn new hard skills and improve soft skills;
• Support people in their job search or transition: provide feedback and suggestions on their job search process, portfolio, CV, share connections and other;
• Contribute to the curriculum of the course.

Requirements

Your skills and expertise

• 3+ years of proven experience in working on a team in a hands-on role as UX/UI designer and/or developer or frontend engineer or similar role.
• Experience with some of following tools and technologies and willingness to learn the ones that might be new to you: Figma, Git, HTML, CSS/SASS, JS, React, Storybook, Figjam/Miro.
• Previous experience in teaching, coaching, or mentoring in a group setting.
• Fluency in English in speaking and writing, ability to adjust it for the non-native English speakers.

Hiring process

1. Review of your application
2. Internal recruiter screening call
3. Interview with the hiring manager
4. Team interview with mock ~25-minute lesson and Q&A session
5. Offer

Benefits

• The opportunity to work for a company with a social mission. BIT supports professional growth of people and companies. Your job will uplift those who are in a professional transition and work towards advancing their career.
• A remote-friendly environment: it is a remote role for candidates based in Germany or EU in CET time zone and who have access to stable speed internet connection.
• Freelance contract with the potential to transition to employment contract.
• Compensation range is 30 – 45 EUR per academic hour (45 minutes) brutto.
• This course is 6-month long: this stability allows you to plan ahead.
• A dynamic and international work environment with a team of passionate individuals. In April 2024 we are 12 people and team is slowly growing.

BIT is an equal opportunity employer. We believe there shall be no discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation. Diversity makes our team stronger!

We welcome all applications from a wide range of candidates. Selection for roles will be based on individual qualification and merit alone.

We look forward to getting to know you better and welcoming you to our team!