Overview
Coding Facilitator Jobs in Durban, South Africa at HyperionDev
About Hyperion Dev
Hyperion Dev is one of the largest providers of accelerated tech education in EMEA and one of the oldest providers of coding bootcamps in the world. We partner with top universities including Imperial College London, the London School of Economics, the University of Edinburgh, and Stellenbosch University to deliver structured technical courses and bootcamps that accelerate people into fulfilling tech careers.
We have been recognized as a top education technology scale‑up and have received financial backing from Meta.
About the Role
As a Hyperion Dev Mentor, you must be passionate about coding, technology, education, and introducing learners to the power of programming. You will help students learn how to code, building the first affordable online coding bootcamp experience to equalise tech skills globally. You need strong technical knowledge of Data Science (Python, Machine Learning). You also need patience, empathy, commitment, a positive attitude, and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Providing rapid and high quality mentorship support to students via live chat, email, online tutorial sessions, and 1:1 support calls.
- Reviewing code submitted by students and providing comprehensive feedback in line with our world‑class code review process.
- Having 1:1 calls with students to help through tricky problems and keep them motivated.
- Monitoring and managing activity on student forums and the Hyperion Dev Students community (Discord and email). Mentors take charge of these spaces from an Education Perspective.
- Adding resources and responding to students on Discord, keeping inline with new content.
- Ensuring speedy responses to all questions asked.
- Receiving training on advanced level curriculum and new technology stacks introduced in each bootcamp.
- Reviewing and updating course content and teaching methods.
- Assisting the Education Lead in new strategies for improving pedagogical processes to improve student completion rates and retention.
- Overseeing the progress, performance, and journey of your students on a monthly basis through one of our online bootcamp tracks.
- Identifying and implementing new strategies for improving student completion rates and retention.
- Preparing and delivering regular online tutorial sessions and workshops to cement specific topics identified as challenging by students and other mentors.
- Creating additional resources (video tutorials, reading material, assessments, etc.) to ensure students have the best possible learning experience.
- Supporting student success with queries and responding to these.
- Assisting in the identification and utilisation of Student Champions or Assisting Mentors who will become top students to assist on Discord.
Minimum Requirements
- Degree/Diploma/Bootcamp, or relevant experience, in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field (informally acquired skills welcome too!).
- 6 months to 1+ years of programming experience or teaching experience in a core programming language below:
- Linear Algebra
- Calculus
- Probability and Statistics
- Data Structures
- Algorithms
- Python
- File IO
- Object‑Oriented Programming
- SQL
- Literate Programming (Jupyter Notebooks)
- Natural Language Processing
- Data Visualisation and Analysis
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Supervised Machine Learning
- Unsupervised Machine Learning
- Principal Component Analysis
- Neural Networks
- Data Science
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Fast learner with a willingness to learn new concepts and technologies.
- Meticulous attention to detail.
- Patience and empathy for learners.
- A problem‑solving and positive attitude.
- An interest in the future of education and online learning.
- Confidence in presenting to a large group and engaging in live programming.
- Strong leadership and teamwork skills.
Preferred
- Experience designing and developing interactive learning experiences.
- Experience working with online students or delivering remote academic support.
- Active involvement in local and international tech communities.
- Teaching or tutoring experience.
- At least three open‑source projects (personal projects welcome).
- Mastery in one or more of:
Python, Java, JavaScript (MERN stack),…
Title: Coding Facilitator
Company: HyperionDev
Location: Durban, South Africa
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