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Instructor Manager

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Full time

Experience:

Expert & Leadership (>10 years)

Work from:

Bahrain

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Experience managing multiple team members, Experience in hiring processes, Facilitating training for adult learners, Ability to evaluate and improve instruction, Experience with education culture in Bahrain.

Key responsabilities:

Develop and staff instructional talent
Facilitate onboarding for instructional team
Maintain coaching relationships for classroom success
Monitor course quality and student feedback
Cultivate relationships to support instructor goals

General Assembly Large https://ga.co/

501 - 1000 Employees

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Job description

Since 2011, General Assembly has transformed tens of thousands of careers through pioneering, experiential education in today’s most in-demand skills. As featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times, GA offers training in web development, data, design, business, and more, both online and at campuses around the world. Our global professional community boasts 60,000 full- and part-time alumni — and counting. In addition to fostering career growth for individuals, GA helps employers cultivate top tech talent and spur innovation by transforming their teams through strategic learning. More than 21,000 employees at elite companies worldwide have honed their digital fluency with our upskilling and reskilling initiatives. GA has also been recognized as one of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, and Fast Company has dubbed us leaders in World-Changing Ideas as well as the #1 Most Innovative Company in Education.

GA is at the leading edge of creating practical solutions to one of the most pressing challenges of our time - the future of work. As recognized by The World Economic Forum, BCG, the OECD and more, these are big challenges to which only a few companies are offering real solutions. In this role, you'll be speaking every day to corporate leaders who rely on GA to help them apply these solutions to their workforce of the future.

Job Description

General Assembly is seeking an Instructor Manager to support high quality learning experiences on our GA Bahrain team.

General Assembly’s success depends on the passion and quality of our instructional teams, which are made up of top industry professionals from a variety of fields including data science, software development and design. The Instructor Manager’s role is to hire, coach and support these individuals as they work to facilitate effective instruction. Working in close partnership with local and Global teams, the Instructor Manager will ensure that GA classrooms are staffed with the right mix of instructors who are eager and ready to share their expertise with our students.

Responsibilities

Staffing

Develop a strong, diverse bench of instructional talent to staff current and future cohorts
Identify and select qualified industry professionals with promising instructional capabilities, including matters of diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice in teaching and learning, to ensure the best practitioners are hired for instructional roles
Partner with Senior Campus Operations Manager or Director to achieve company goals through accurate planning and strategic hiring
Plan and staff appropriate instructional teams to ensure they are the right size and mix to meet the needs of diverse learners
Partner with colleagues in Sales, Student/Client Success, and Outcomes to support a responsive feedback loop that delivers consistent messaging to learners throughout their journey

Onboarding

Facilitate onboarding for each instructional team member that sets them up for success on day 1 by orienting them to the curriculum, internal processes, their team, and basic adult learning theory & instructional practices they can use to effectively support diverse learners

Coaching & retention

Maintain coaching relationships with instructional team to ensure positive classroom culture and successful learning outcomes, and strategize opportunities to support students who have diverse learning needs
Work with other GA delivery colleagues to ensure delivery quality targets are met and all stakeholders are informed and actively coordinating on supporting individual students
Implement standards of instructional quality with individuals and teams of instructors
Observe instruction and provide coaching to address issues and support continuous growth of instructors on instructional delivery and classroom culture.
Monitor and manage course quality and progress by regularly reviewing student learning, experience, and feedback data and formulate action plans based on data
Cultivate meaningful, honest relationships with each instructor to work together on shared goals
Understand each instructor’s goals and needs and problem solve on ways to better improve their experience and support their development

Qualifications

Experience in successfully managing multiple team members, ideally in an education or corporate training setting
Experience leading hiring processes, including sourcing candidates and conducting interviews that select effective candidates
Experience delivering and facilitating learning or training experiences, ideally for adult learners
Ability to effectively evaluate instruction and provide actionable coaching to improve student learning
Experience in discussing and training educators in conversations about the life, and culture in Bahrain

Required Competencies