Technical Teaching Fellow

Location: OAKLAND, CA
Job Category: Full Time, Seasonal, Non-Exempt
Reports to: Oakland Program Director
Hourly Rate: $25/hour

Hack the Hood has a growing network of youth-focused partner organizations, tech companies, local government and young people ages 16-25 we are working with around the Bay area to scale our programs and bring our 6-week immersive bootcamp to local communities in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, the East Bay and the Central Valley.

Founded in 2013, Hack the Hood introduces low-income youth of color to basic coding and careers in tech and connects them with training, mentors and resources so they can move toward tech entrepreneurship and careers in tech. Over the course of our bootcamps and our after school coding programs, Hack the Hood participants evolve into young web development professionals with strong education and career goals.

For 2018, Hack the Hood is seeking to bring on Technical Teaching Fellows to work with us in our immersive 4-day a week, 6-week boot camps in summer of 2018 in Oakland.

Fellows will work with our opportunities, small business, and instruction teams to provide a high level of technical support within the classroom. The role includes teaching clinics and workshops on building websites with Weebly, using HTML and CSS, Javascript and preparing young people for testing and entry into coding boot camps and college CS courses.

The Technical Teaching fellow will also be a coach and resource for young people who are interested in careers in tech, studying CS, web and digital design, and online marketing in both college and certificate programs, and who are looking to build portfolios of work and career plans to advance their goals. They will offer small group and 1:1 mentoring to support youth.

WHO IS A GOOD FIT FOR THIS ROLE?
This is a terrific role for a technically skilled person who would like to empower innovative young people of color to use technology to build careers and businesses. The best candidates will have solid, hands-on experience working in areas of tech that relate to the consumer and front-end focused curriculum of Hack the Hood, and the ability and patience to teach skills through hands-on instruction.

Our best candidates will combine their professional experience and skills with some experience working with young people ages 16-25, ideally in a structured setting. Being a problem-solver, with experience with and empathy for urban youth, and the resiliency to work in a diverse team in a fast-paced, youth-focused environment is critical. The Fellow will combine team management skills and agile development skills with managing technical instruction and digital design, with support from a broader team. Successful candidates will have a zest for teaching basic coding languages to a diverse array of youth.

Successful candidates will also approach our community already understanding our principles of youth development, with demonstrated experience and/or empathy with our approach, or be able to show a strong readiness to learn.

Hack the Hood’s youth development principles:

• Not about me, without me – our vision includes youth's’ desires.
• Young people seen as assets, teachers, leaders, change-makers (not needing to be saved, no deficit lens)
• Build social consciousness of youth and ourselves. Everyone’s a teacher AND a student.
• Content is relevant to and reflective of the socio-economic status (SES) context.
• Expand youth locus of control, self determination
• Build concrete skills based in real economic picture and the tech ecosystem, grounded in community cultural health
• Create and maintain psychological safety

The Technical Fellow will work with the Lead Instructor, Junior Instructor, other Technical Fellow, and the Program Director to plan and execute a successful spring boot camp.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with the Lead Instructor and Jr. Instructor to deliver the curriculum, and leading non-instructional activities such as ice-breakers, meditation, community circles, etc.
• Provide 1-on-1 and small group support to youth in the classroom
• Support youth as they work with small business clients
• Supervise youth during business trips
• Teach HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Help identify young people with strong skills and competency who might train or qualify for scholarships to certificate programs
• Support HTH’s internal evaluation processes including pre/post participant assessments

BOOT CAMP SCHEDULE

• 7/2 - 8/10
• M-TH, 8:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
• F, 10 A.M. - 6 P.M.
• Position starts on 5/29, with a three day break from 6/4 - 6/6
• Position ends on 8/24

QUALIFICATIONS
The successful candidate will have experience in the following:

• Understanding and working with Bay Area transitional age (16-25-year-old) youth
• Weebly as a web design platform
• HTML, CSS & JavaScript (and how the languages function within the Weebly platform)
• UX & Design
• Hack the Hood boot camp curriculum and structure
• G Suite
• Slack
• Trello

REQUIREMENTS

• Good people skills
• Minimum of 2 years experience as front-end developer or web developer
• Comfort leading a classroom in basic coding languages
• Demonstrated ability to balance multiple priorities in a changing environment
• Demonstrated ability to problem-solve
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Alignment with Hack the Hood's mission, values, and youth development principles
• Strong personal integrity, maturity, credibility
• Patience and flexibility
• Experience working within communities of color and youth populations

• Experience training, coaching or mentoring in a tech role
• Ability to give and receive constructive feedback
• Passion to educate and partner with youth in learning
• Strong organizational skills

How to apply: email your cover letter, resume, and three references to Ricardo Bonilla, ricardo@hackthehood.org.