Cybersecurity Teaching Assistant

** Schedule: Monday through Friday (9am to 5pm MT) at DevMountain Campus **

As a Teaching Assistant for the DevMountain Bootcamp team, you will be instrumental in teaching and guiding students through their learning experience. You will be expected to work closely and creatively with individuals and teams to review, critique, and help with project work. The Teaching Assistant will also ensure that students understand what they should be working on, accomplishing their project goals, and are understanding concepts taught in the curriculum. The Teaching Assistant will guide project work and be proactive in assisting students using their specialized knowledge of the curriculum.

• Use your knowledge of the program curriculum as well as your best judgment on the ability of the typical student to collaborate with your leader on curriculum content and instruction.
• Occasionally deliver and facilitate course content using creativity and excellent communication skills.
• Interpret, analyze, and address students’ needs during in-class exercises, project time. Contribute additional explanations and analysis on student questions during lecture discussions.
• Apply specialized knowledge of the program’s technology stack during work with individual students on projects. Analyze the quality of final student projects. Determine whether the correct principles are being learned and applied within each student project.
• Provide critical feedback to students during regular student reviews and critiques.
• Creatively inspire students to move through the challenges of learning a new skill set.
• Collaborate effectively with other instructional staff to best meet the needs and learning styles of students. Use your best judgment to determine student needs with the rest of the staff and find the best way to support each student.
• Work with Instructors to craft meaningful and prompt feedback on students’ progress.

• Has the ability to facilitate an engaging, innovative, and entertaining lecture, including explaining high-level technology concepts in a way that a beginner can understand.
• Is a proactive communicator that can use discretion effectively and also strives to be articulate in their speech towards students.
• Proficient in advanced computer skills, such as the use of command line, keyboard shortcuts, installation troubleshooting, and cloud-based coding platforms.
• Has either industry experience, a college degree, or a coding bootcamp certificate of completion in program-specific languages and technologies. If candidate is self-taught with no industry experience, can showcase at least 3 projects that demonstrate a high level of proficiency in the languages and frameworks they will teach.
• Able to learn on the fly, operative effectively with a high level of ambiguity or uncertainty during technical debugging, and also communicate in a way that reassures students with a high level of self-doubt or confusion.

• 1 yr of work experience in Cyber Security (Strongly Preferred)

• Self-taught developer, Bootcamp graduate, or equivalent degree.

• Typical office setting.
• Mobility within the office including movement from floor to floor.
• Travel via plane, car, and metro may be required to perform this job.
• Must be able to work more than 40 hours per week when business needs warrant.
• Access information using a computer.
• Effectively communicate, both up and down the management chain.
• Effectively cope with stressful situations.
• Strong mental acuity.
• Regular, dependable attendance and punctuality are essential functions of this job.
• Other essential functions and marginal job functions are subject to modification.