Technology Teaching Fellow (m/f/x) at Meltwater

These individuals will contribute to creating a culture of excellence in a supportive environment that furthers the success of our entrepreneurs-in-training and drives the reputation of MEST as a world-class entrepreneurship training program.

Key Responsibilities

• To design, develop and execute lesson plans on technical topics.
• Grade and evaluate technical deliverables.
• To mentor individuals and project teams.
• To lead projects within the curriculum.

Experience

• Programming proficiency in an objected-oriented programming (OOP) language.
• Experience building scalable applications:
  • UX/UI Designer : Wireframing, Prototyping, Ideating, Developing final designs using Photoshop/Illustrator, etc.
  • Front-End : Exposure and practical skills of one of the popular frontend frameworks such as Ember.js , Angular , React , Backbone , etc.
  • Back-End : Daily development of one of the popular full stack frameworks such as Ruby on Rails , Django , Meteor , Laravel , etc. Experience in both relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, etc) and non-relational databases (MongoDB, Redis, etc). If you have BAAS experience, that’s a plus.
  • Mobile application developer. If you do native development with Java (Android) or Objective-C/Swift (iOS) that’s a plus.
  • Testing
  • Ability to design and architect complex software programs, and maintain them over time.
• Experience managing software projects and teams using project management tools.
• Ability to adopt new languages and frameworks quickly in order to help teams using them.
• Experience with emerging technologies, AI(ML, NLU/NLP, CV, VR, AR), Blockchain (Hyperledger fabric, Ethereum) and IoT. Knowing how to build gaming systems is a plus
• Understanding of Design Thinking methods is highly desirable
• Significant experience in public speaking, teaching, and mentorship.
• Significant experience with entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship.
• Experience working in multi-cultural and geographically diverse teams and familiarity with the challenges/opportunities in African countries.
• Plus: Entrepreneurship experience in Africa or emerging markets.

CHARACTERISTICS

• Passion for excellence, creativity, innovation, teaching and learning
• Excellent facilitator and speaker
• Team player, effective in a Collaborative Work Environment
• Coaching, able to bring out the best in others
• Learning mindset
• Innovative

Benefits

• Monthly stipend
• Travel, Housing, Meals and Emergency Health Insurance provided by MEST
• Teaching experience; international work experience
• A chance to make a significant impact- transfer knowledge and skills
• Skills development outside of typical day-to-day roles
• Exposure to some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs and investors through guest lectures.
• On-the-ground operational experience in high-growth markets.
• Broadened perspective through exposure to out-of-industry problems, players, and technologies.
• Invaluable international work & life experience in an entrepreneurial organization supporting talented African tech entrepreneurs.