Technology Teaching Fellow, Fullstack - MEST Africa

Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) is seeking a candidate with a passion for teaching and a strong background in technology and/or entrepreneurship for a one-year assignment teaching and mentoring talented African entrepreneurs in full stack application development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and execute the curriculum and lesson plans on full stack development.
• Grade and evaluate technical deliverables.
• Mentor individuals and project teams.
• Lead projects within the curriculum.

Skills & Requirements

• Highly experienced in full stack development with a good portfolio of past projects. Mandatory skills include: Javascript, React.js, React Native, Express.js, Node.js and MongoDB.
• Capable of and able to teach the development of front end website architecture and design of user interactions on web pages.
• Experience in developing back end website applications and in creating servers and databases (SQL, noSQL) for functionality.
• Knowledge of systems architecture, DevOPs and cloud infrastructure design and deployment (AWS, Azure etc.).

• Experience in cross-platform optimization for mobile phones. Ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Adept in being able to teach the Design and development of APIs.
• Skilful in the current trends in web applications and programming languages.
• Competent in design thinking and the use of ‘user centered design’ methods in product development.
• Proficient in managing software projects and teams using project management tools. Understand Agile principles and be experienced in using them to manage projects.
• Ability to adopt new tools and frameworks quickly in order to help teams to use them.
• Adept in public speaking, teaching, and mentorship in software engineering or related subjects.
• Skillful with entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship and must have built successful products.
• Experienced in working in multicultural and diverse teams and familiar with the challenges/opportunities in African countries.

CHARACTERISTICS

• Have a passion for excellence, creativity, innovation, teaching and learning
• An excellent facilitator and speaker
• Team player, effective in a collaborative work environment
• A Coach, able to bring out the best in others
• A learning mindset
• A problem solver and solution-oriented