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