Job Summary

Our team is looking for a technical, and compassionate tutor to join our teaching team, and help in delivering STEM classes to neurodivergent students.

Job Description

Our company:

We're a small creative team that delivers STEM workshops to students and communities across New Zealand.

We began in Auckland in 2017 teaching after-school coding classes, and since then have expanded our offerings to also teach robotics, electronics, 3D Design and printing, science, Minecraft, and more!

Our classes have expanded from running purely after-school to also running in school holiday periods, in school classrooms during the day, and in community venues for pop up family events.

Our goal is to make STEM exciting and accessible for all, ensuring all our attendees leave our workshops feeling confident and proud of their newly developed skills.

This role:

This role will see you support neurodivergent students who have challenges around social and educational engagement, and often patterns of dysregulation which can lead to behavioural challenges.

Despite the challenges our young people face, our team strives to support them unconditionally through their educational journey. We believe building a strong relationship and adapting to every student's needs provides the opportunity for them to grow confidence, learn, and flourish in educational settings.

Our 1:1 students (typically aged 10 to 17) work on interest based projects which include topics like animation, game design, 3D design and printing, electronics, coding, and PC building. The work on platforms including Blender, Unity, and Unreal Engine.

What we're looking for:

We are looking for someone with experience working with young people who have a disability, or who are neurodivergent.

Someone who is positive, can adapt quickly, is supportive & understanding, doesn't fluster when presented with challenges, and enjoys building relationships with students.

We are also looking for someone with existing STEM skills. Experience with 2+ of the projects listed is necessary to succeed in this role (design, 3D printing, game development, animation, electronics, coding).

Job Location:

We travel for work across the region. You'll see the same students at the same day and time each week and we try to group students by their region to reduce travel in between.

During the school holidays we switch over to run pop up workshops across Wellington for community members of all ages (parent & child focus).

Responsibilities include:

• Organising activities and equipment (choosing from our activity bank) with students’ individual needs in mind
• Visiting students at school, at local libraries, online, and in-home
• Delivering 45 minute - 2 hour classes to students
• Administration work - keeping notes, taking photos, booking sessions, booking make up sessions, emails
• Team catch ups - once per fortnight with our wonderful team to catch up, discuss ideas, provide feedback and work through any challenges and most importantly share our wins!
• Leading pop up mainstream events and classes in community spaces (after-school classes & holiday workshops)

Next steps:

To apply for this job please make sure you meet the following, do not apply if you cannot confidently tick all of these boxes:

• Have availability 10 - 20h p/w, this role will grow as your skills do
• Have experience working with students who are neurodivergent or have a disability
• Have demonstrated skills in 2 or more STEM topics listed above
• Have experience working in education settings
• Have great leadership skills - confidence, adaptability, solutions focused, able to manage a group / new situation effectively
• Have experience working unsupervised and independently, without feeling flustered
• Have the ability to bring positivity and resilience to every workday
• Be confident communicating with and tracking interactions with customers and stakeholders
• Have your own private & reliable mode of transport (a car) this is non-negotiable

Benefits:

• Once fully trained, the hourly pay rate for this role jumps from $25.70 to $32.80 (training is 6 to 8 weeks)
• We pay for travel - per km travelled and also time spent in the car
• All training is paid, and can be partly done from home
• We will pay for your first aid certificate and flu jab
• You get to play Minecraft for work - our favourite perk
• Christmas & New Year closure - we shut for the holidays (2.5 to 3.5 weeks)
• This role can be built up to full time hours for the right person!

We look forward to welcoming you into our team.

Contact us:

Please email our team with the following information:

• Your experience working with students (neurodivergent / disabled students)
• Your STEM experience
• How your availability aligns with the role

A CV is great - don't worry about a cover letter.