Mentor

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.

This role is responsible for guiding students and providing expertise across the three key sections of the online course: Data Analysis, Working with Databases, and Communication and Contextualization of Data. - Live Lectures - Hold live lecture sessions with students to work through challenging problems and roadblocks via group video discussion - Facilitate a dynamic and collaborative classroom community in an online setting - + 1:1 Sessions - Work with students 1:1 via video chat helping them through the weekly exercises and multi-week projects, as well as provide feedback on their assignments - Coach students; maintain a positive classroom culture and strong student morale - Feedback on student work - Provide students with meaningful and prompt feedback on their progress - Respond to emails from students on questions about the curriculum and their projects in a timely manner - Resource Curation - Provide students with resources to support the development of their final project that will showcase their abilities to hiring managers - Inspire students to persevere through the challenges of turning their ideas into actual data dashboard or data-driven presentation

This individual should be an expert in Excel (or other spreadsheet software), comfortable working with SQL, and an excellent communicator with a unique design mindset for building effective data-driven presentation and building influential data dashboards. The successful candidate must know how to: - Design and execute focused tests to provide actionable insights - Communicate findings to all stakeholders including team leads of product, engineering, finance, and executive teams - Assist product team in prioritizing tasks based on analytical evidence - Build and maintain reports that pull data from multiple data sources - “Exceptional skills in Excel” - Data analysis skills preferred (i.e. pivot tables and development of simple data queries) - Advanced knowledge of SAS, SQL, Microsoft Access or comparable analytical tools - Must have experience or familiarity with SQL or other relational database - Be articulate. We're counting on you to present data analyses in an easily digestible and insightful way for both policy and practical applications. - Manipulate basic data using Excel (or other spreadsheet software) - Clean Data using Excel (or other spreadsheet software) - Perform basic data analysis using Excel (or other spreadsheet software) - Pull data from a SQL database and import it into Excel (or other spreadsheet software) - Perform advanced data analysis using Excel (or other spreadsheet software) - Visualize the data in a compelling method - Telling a convincing story containing actionable steps based on data