Lead Instructor

**#About Ironhack**

Ironhack, founded in 2013, is an education startup that was created to disrupt the way tech education works

Doesn’t it seem odd that we’ve been learning the same way since the Industrial Revolution? Virtually all industries are pushing the limits on how to do things faster, better, and more efficiently. We empower students to create a new path - one that leads to meaningful careers in software development, product design, or data analytics in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional education.

It’s with this mindset that we’ve become one of the key global players in bridging the digital skills gap, serving both those looking to get into tech, as well as the companies hungry for tech talent.

Quick facts:

- Courses in Web Development, UX/UI Design, Cyber Security & Data Analytics
- Operations in 10 locations worldwide
- Graduated over 9000 students
- 150+ global team members

**#About the gig**

We are looking for a Full-time Lead Instructor for our Data Analytics Bootcamp in our Barcelona campus with a passion for data and for sharing their knowledge with apprenticing data analysts. The Lead Instructor is someone who has a deep understanding of programming and good development practices gathered from their educational journey and real-world experience. You need to be a strong communicator and very patient - you’ll need to be able to explain abstract concepts to the future generation of coders.

The Data Analytics Bootcamp Lead Instructor will be responsible for:

- Oversee the whole academic experience of the Ironhack bootcamp
- Teach at our Barcelona campus on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 18:30pm - 21:30pm and Saturdays from 9am to 15pm
- Manage the Teaching Assistants to support the success of the class
- Facilitate a safe, supportive, and energetic community that welcomes the various needs and learning styles of your students
- Challenge students to think strategically as they turn their ideas into real user experience solutions
- Inspire and support students as they identify their passions and drive their own continued learning beyond the curriculum

**#Collaborate with Global Team**
- Collaborate with Curriculum Engineers to improve the curriculum
- Work with the global team in the rollout of new teaching materials
- Adapt our global curriculum and use it to guide your teaching, build your own lesson plans as needed, and contribute back your lessons learned over time
- Creating engaging content for our Data Analytics courses that may include lessons, exercises, and/or mini-projects

**# Community Building**:

- To create a sense of community / Participate in the student experience by joining events
- Facilitate a supportive and energetic community that lasts well beyond the course

**#Is this you?**
- 3+ years of design experience in the Data Analytics field, preferably in a leadership role
- Fluent in Spanish, as the course will be in that language; fluent in English, as all teacher-facing content and in-company communication will be in that language.
- You are passionate about Data Analytics
- You like sharing knowledge
- You consider yourself a learner
- You want to make an impact on people
- You have a great amount of empathy, compassion, and patience
- Experience managing and keeping a team motivated
- A can-do attitude and a good sense of humor
- Great communication skills and an ability to capture people's attention :)
- You are organized, reliable, communicative, open to feedback
- You enjoy teaching/mentoring others and that are involved in the Data Analytics community

**# Technologies & skills needed to teach this course**
- Understanding of data analytic principles
- Follow data analytic best practices to solve problems
- Statistics and Statistical Models
- Python
- Data Cleaning Methodologies
- Data Validation and Visualisation
- Tableau and/or Power BI
- Web Scraping
- Version Control with Git & GitHub
- MySQL
- Understanding of Databases (Structured & Unstructured)
- Understanding of RESTful APIs and Web Scraping

**#Perks**
- Competitive salary
- Flexible work environment
- Tons of amazing events with our students and community of instructors
- Learn to code, design, or analyze data: enroll in our part-time courses for free
- Generous vacation/sick policy