After School Club Leader/Assistant

Do you want to make a difference to young people in our local community? Have you got the drive, enthusiasm, and energy to inspire children to learn life-changing skills? Do you understand the importance of a proper digital education for young people? If so, we would love to hear from you.

Jam Coding delivers outstanding computing and coding workshops to young people in Cheltenham and Bishops Cleeve. We are passionate about helping children to use and explore technology in a positive and constructive way. We have an exciting opportunity to join our team delivering Computing and Coding After School Workshops in schools within Cheltenham and Bishops Cleeve.

Full training will be given to the successful applicant to enable them to deliver outstanding and rewarding computing and coding workshops in a variety of formats. You do not need extensive prior knowledge in this area.

Job type: Part-time, graduate, zero hours contract

Shift and schedule: No weekends, day shift, Monday to Friday

Location: Cheltenham and Bishops Cleeve

Benefits: Excellent progression opportunities

The ideal candidate should have:

• A positive attitude to helping young people succeed through teamwork, confidence building and exploration.
• A sound general knowledge of IT/Computers (Full training given)
• An excellent communicator who is well organised and punctual.

Desirable:

• A teaching qualification, childcare qualification, teaching assistant qualification, experience of teaching or training young people (or be working towards)
• A driving license and a car would be ideal for this job role.
• All candidates will need a DBS qualification to work within this job role. This can be ascertained on behalf of the successful candidate. Candidates would need to be able to drive to fulfil this role.

About us:

We are passionate about inspiring young people to use technology for positive benefits helping them to understand the endless possibilities and opportunities that computational thinking and skills represent.

We are positive role models for the learners we teach, giving them safe, well-structured sessions to explore learning opportunities within a number of areas of computing. This includes animation, coding, robotics and much more.

Hours:

The hours of work will typically be 1500-1700 Monday to Friday during term time, with extra hours available during holiday periods. We would consider a job share so please state on your application which days you are available.

To apply:

To apply please submit a CV or covering letter with an overview of your experience relevant to the role.

We are keen to hear from all types of candidates who love technology and education.