JavaScript Development Instructor

General Assembly is a venture-backed, NYC-based startup focusing on education for individuals and enterprises in the areas of technology, design, and entrepreneurship. We currently have physical classrooms in 15 cities across 4 continents, with tens of thousands of students coming through our doors.

In this 10­-week part­-time course, students learn how to add interactivity to websites, work with APIs and build a single­-page app using JavaScript. We are looking for an instructor who is passionate about JavaScript and excited to teach students a set of cutting-­edge skills in our JavaScript Development course.

• Teach two, 3-hour part-time classes per week, for 10 weeks.
• Work alongside GA staff and teaching team to best meet the needs and learning styles of your students.
• Guide students through development of a stellar final project that translates business logic into pixel perfect website.
• Facilitate a dynamic and collaborative classroom community.
• Assist students outside of class as necessary.

• You are eager to shape the skills, minds, and trajectories of eager General Assembly Students.
• You are the person that your colleagues naturally gravitate to when they are trying to figure something out.
• You have at least 3 years of experience working with JavaScript.
• You are experienced in utilizing JavaScript for the following tasks: manipulating the DOM using vanilla JS and jQuery, making API calls and parsing JSON data, saving data using a back­end- as­a­service provider like Parse or Firebase.
• Nice to have: experience with any front­end JS framework (Angular, React, Meteor, Ember, Backbone, etc.).