DAI Instructor Lead

Since 2011, General Assembly has transformed tens of thousands of careers through pioneering, experiential education in today’s most in-demand skills. As featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times, GA offers training in web development, data, design, business, and more, both online and at campuses around the world. Our global professional community boasts 40,000 full- and part-time alumni — and counting.

In addition to fostering career growth for individuals, GA helps employers cultivate top tech talent and spur innovation by transforming their teams through strategic learning. More than 21,000 employees at elite companies worldwide have honed their digital fluency with our corporate training programs. GA has also been recognized as one of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, and Fast Company has dubbed us leaders in World-Changing Ideas and the #1 Most Innovative Company in Education.

In this 12-weeks (full-time) course, students learn and practice turning messy real-world datasets into actionable, data-driven insights they can communicate. We will be using Excel, SQL and Tableau as the primary tools for analysis. We are looking for an instructor to lead this part-time Analytics course (see course page). Though we provide a core curriculum along with instructor resources, you will have the opportunity to implement your ideas by adapting our materials as one of the course’s first instructors. This is an in-person role based in Bahrain. General Assembly will cover all travel-related expenses for qualified candidates.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• You have strong experience using the following tools: Excel, SQL, Tableau, POWER BI and Python Programming.
• You are eager to shape the skills, minds, and trajectories of eager General Assembly students.
• You are the person that your colleagues naturally gravitate to when they are trying to figure something out.
• You have at least 5 years of work experience in a role where you’ve been responsible for cleaning messy data, analyzing the data and presenting your data based insights.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Teach 8 hours per day, 5 days a week as a lead instructor or co-lead instructor.
• Instructors will need to commit a few hours per day preparing lessons and materials, leveraging existing GA curriculum content.
• Work alongside GA staff and teaching team to best meet the needs and learning styles of your students.
• Guide students through development of a stellar final project that will showcase their abilities to hiring managers.
• Facilitate a dynamic and collaborative classroom community.
• Inspire students to persevere through the challenges of learning a new suite of skills.