Data Science Technical Mentor at Moringa School

Moringa School is in an exciting transition from a primarily Nairobi-based school to an international education organization via rapid growth across Africa and expansion into new course offerings. We are a premier advanced immersive program, training exceptional Data Scientists.

We have expanded our product offering to corporates and are now delivering a customised inhouse curriculum to (corporates clients) based on their needs. As such, we are developing a dedicated team of trainers that will deliver content to clients as our training demand increases. We are looking for a talented, organized, systems-oriented thinker to provide management, leadership, and accountability to a high-performance team in support of the mission and core values of the company. The ideal candidate should be comfortable with providing guidance to adult learners/students from our corporate clients. As a technical mentor, your role is to provide supervision necessary to ensure that students have an exceptional experience and achieve strong learning outcomes.

What you will do

• You will be responsible for training student cohorts from our corporate clients to deliver best-in-class learning experiences.
• You will lead and coordinate all classroom activities for your class including being directly accountable for class and student success and happiness.
• Weekly 1.1’s with students, including personal check-in and independent project review
• Disciplinary follow-up for all academic and interpersonal issues
• Fill out and maintain student tracking and raise red flags early when students are not on track
• Kick off and run all daily activities, such as daily standup, peer review hour, etc
• Master Technical Mentor responsibilities and processes to ensure quality is maintained
• Personal professional growth: Moringa is part of your professional journey. It is up to you to decide how you want to grow through that journey, and to continuously improve in doing your work using the tools at your disposal.

Who You Are

• Positive, empathetic, team-player with a systems-mindset
• Someone with the ability to work well with and accommodate the needs of other people
• Can creatively solve tough problems, have strong critical thinking abilities
• Have deep self- and situational awareness
• Exhibit enthusiasm for growth or show great technical skill.
• Demonstrates ownership and proactively take initiative to solve problems and help others

What You Have

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics or related course
• 1 year working professional Data Science experience
• Working knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals
• Working knowledge of Python (non-negotiable), R (desirable)
• Experience teaching, working in education, or programme management (desirable)
• Ability to make inferences from data
• Strong problem solving abilities to handle complex situations involving many people
• Ability to work with and mentor large, diverse groups of people
• Ability to multitask and strategically solve diverse problems