3 Assistant Teacher jobs in Saudi Arabia

This is an onsite position to teach students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Travel to the jobsite will be required and it will be a contract role for 4-6 months. All necessary business travel expenses will be handled by Coding Dojo._

As a teaching assistant you will support the bootcamp instructors in teaching, lecturing, live demos and more. The position may include refining and creating courses to be released to Coding Dojo boot camp students.

**Responsibilities**
- Support Instructors by taking attendance, grading, and assisting with lectures, live demos, and labs
- Conduct configuration reviews and provide feedback to students as necessary
- Enforce the 20-minute rule
- Conduct frequent check-ins with students (every 20 minutes depending) to identify what students are working on, support their learning, and provide feedback
- Create and sustain a fun atmosphere for learning
- Support students remotely via Zoom & chat forums
- Provide student feedback to the instructor

**Core Competencies**
- Proficient understanding of distributed computing principles
- Management of Hadoop cluster, with all included services
- Ability to solve any ongoing issues with operating the cluster
- Proficiency with Hadoop v2, MapReduce, HDFS
- Experience with building stream-processing systems, using solutions such as Storm or Spark-Streaming
- Good knowledge of Big Data querying tools, such as Pig, Hive, and Impala
- Experience with integration of data from multiple data sources
- Experience with NoSQL databases, such as HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB
- Knowledge of various ETL techniques and frameworks, such as Flume
- Experience with various messaging systems, such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Experience with Big Data ML toolkits, such as Mahout, SparkML, or H2O
- Experience with Cloudera/MapR/Hortonworks
- Desire to help and explain concepts to students
- Enthusiasm - exhibits passion and excitement overwork. Has a can-do attitude
- Calm under pressure - maintains stable performance even when under heavy pressure or stress
- Intelligence - demonstrates the ability to quickly and proficiently understand and absorb new information
- Communication - can break down complex concepts in a simple, easy to understand the manner
- Humble - respectful of everyone
- Excellent oral and written communications skills

**Minimum Requirements**
- Bachelor's degree in data science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, or related degree from an accredited college or university
- 1 year industry experience in a related role working in a Big Data/AI related role
- Reliable internet connection and equipment to perform all job duties

**Benefits**
- Once-in-a-lifetime chance to travel to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- All necessary travel expenses paid (plane ticket, living quarters, etc.)
- Excellent entry into portfolio/resume/CV
- Support from world class network of teaching staff
- Experience the technology and skills without the stress of actual development/engineering
- Be a part of the mission to diversify the tech industry
- Be on the cutting edge of new program development
- Work with students and staff from around the world
- Share your experience and knowledge with future generations

**About Coding Dojo**

Coding Dojo is a global education technology company that offers a three full-stack web development Bootcamp, as well as courses on Data Science and other emerging technologies. Our innovative curriculum and Learning Management System is designed to train students to become self-sufficient developers, regardless of their technical background. We also make it our mission to support underserved communities and increase diversity in the tech industry.

This position is a rare opportunity to join a rapidly growing company and make a positive impact in many people's lives. At Coding Dojo we pride ourselves on possessing a culture of execution that caters to wavemakers rather than wave riders. If you are interested in joining a diverse and dynamic team who values speed, continuous improvement, measurement, focus, accountability, and “attacking the gap”, you will feel right at home at Coding Dojo.
- Coding Dojo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Coding Dojo is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities._

**Data Science Instructor_Teaching Assistant**

**(Onsite in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)**

**This is an onsite position to teach students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Travel to the Jobsite will be required and it will be a contract role for 4-6 months. All necessary business travel expenses will be handled by Coding Dojo.**

**As an instructor, you will lead your own cohort. This position includes training through more complex projects, online/on-site classroom support, teaching, lecturing, live demos, and more. The position may include refining and creating courses to be released to Coding Dojo boot camp students.**

**Responsibilities**
- **Reviewing lecture content and preparing to instruct the class if needed (daily)**
- **Taking attendance (if TA is not present, daily)**
- **Assisting with the morning session (daily)**
- **Assisting with the afternoon session (daily)**
- **Moving through online breakout rooms to assist students (daily)**
- **Reviewing and leaving feedback on assignments (daily)**
- **Deliver instruction on data science, data analytics, machine learning, Python, SQL, statistics, probability, and data engineering**
- **Facilitate group discussions, demos, and in-class activities**
- **Follow industry trends in big data, deep learning, machine learning, and AI**
- **Play a hands-on role in curriculum development, and use what you learn from working with students to make the curriculum world-class**
- **Gather and report on student metrics**
- **Work alongside Coding Dojo’s Online Instruction team to deliver remote training.**
- **Participate in professional training, so you stay fresh!**
- **Responsible for potential deployment with new or existing Coding Dojo clients with the ability to contextualize work based on client requests**

**Core Competencies**
- **Experience in teaching, mentoring, industry training, online/classroom instruction**
- **Excellent troubleshooting skills, self-motivated, results-driven, and well-organized**
- **Excellent oral and written communications skills**

**Minimum Requirements**
- **Masters or Ph.D. in data science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, or related degree from an accredited college or university**
- **3 years of industry experience working in a data science role (e.g. Data Management, Data Governance, Data Science Instructor, or Data Analyst)**
- **Reliable internet connection and equipment to perform all job duties**

**Benefits**
- **Once-in-a-lifetime chance to travel to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia**
- **All necessary travel expenses paid (plane ticket, living quarters, etc.)**
- **Excellent entry into portfolio/resume/CV**
- **Support from a world-class network of teaching staff**
- **Experience the technology and skills without the stress of actual development/engineering**
- **Be a part of the mission to diversify the tech industry**
- **Be on the cutting edge of new program development**
- **Work with students and staff from around the world**
- **Share your experience and knowledge with future generations**

**Salary**: ﷼50,000.00 - ﷼100,000.00 per year

COVID-19 considerations:
About Coding Dojo
Coding Dojo is a global education technology company that offers a three full-stack computer programming Bootcamp, as well as courses on Data Science and other emerging technologies. Our innovative curriculum and Learning Management Syste

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Riyadh: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

Application Question(s):

- 3 years of industry experience working in a data science role