Education Program Developer

Education Program Developer

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Job Description

• Creates Effective Education Materials
  • Creates educational resources that effectively teach job-ready skills to learners from a wide variety of backgrounds and experience level
  • Creates a meaningful, high-quality, motivating learning experience throughout all education programs.
  • Creates resources to effectively support course staff in their work.

• Research and Continued Learning
  • Researches and evaluates educational materials, including both LaunchCode-owned and third-party material
  • Learns new topics and technologies as needed in order to support the needs of LaunchCode education programs.
  • Understands industry trends and how they affect entry-level hiring.
    
    
• Supports Course Delivery
  • Sets up and maintains technical systems to support courses.
  • Oversees pilot course implementation and delivery in order to assess effectivenes
  • Maintains active communication with instructors and teaching assistants to address timely issues, learn about areas needing improvement, and support course delivery.
  • Understands and communicates the motivation behind course design and implementation to LaunchCode staff and course staff.

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Qualifications

• Ability to work in a highly collaborative and fast-moving team environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Strong expository writing and editing skills.
• Mastery of core programming skills in 1-2 modern languages-such as JS, Python, Java, C#. Mastery includes but is not limited to data structures, functions, and classes.
• Understanding of how different languages, frameworks, and technologies relate to each other.
• Familiarity with common development practices used by professional programmers.
• Positive feedback behaviors, including providing and receiving constructive, non-personal feedback that is focused on the quality of the product and learner experience.
• Empathy for learners from a wide variety of backgrounds.

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Additional Information

• Competitive salary - This will be a salaried position in the range of $55-59,000/year.

• Benefits - We offer competitive healthcare (including access to an HSA), dental, and vision plans, with employer premium contributions, and an optional life insurance plan. We also offer an employer match to a 401(k) plan and immediate vesting.

• Personal Time Off - All full-time employees get 20 Personal Time Off days per calendar year and 10 company holidays.

• Remote work - We recognize that the best work environment differs from person to person, and offer remote work options.

• Flexible hours - Everyone has different schedules and responsibilities. We encourage you to be "online" when you work best, as long as you are available for team meetings and can communicate effectively with your coworkers.

• Laptop and phone reimbursement - LaunchCode provides a monthly phone stipend for full-time employees and a laptop reimbursement of at least $1000 for all new employees.

• Professional development - We offer ample internal and external opportunities for each employee's continued career growth, including a professional development stipend.

• Paid family leave - Employees who have been with LaunchCode for at least 6 months are eligible for a family leave plan of up to 3 weeks paid and 3 weeks unpaid. Employees who have been with LaunchCode for at least 1 year are eligible for a family leave plan of up to 6 weeks paid and 6 weeks unpaid. Family leave is offered to all eligible employees, regardless of gender.