About the company

the <wit> project was founded in 2019 by two young Latinas with untraditional tech backgrounds who were troubled by the limited access they experienced as they embarked on their careers as software engineers. In navigating these difficulties, they realized that community was the most effective way to stay committed, celebrate authenticity, and most of all, create a sense of belonging for themselves and other women in this field.

Our community at the <wit> project embraces individuals underserved in the tech industry and empowers them to unleash their potential by becoming leaders in social change.

About the role

Project Leads will be dedicated to a team of 6 students. You and 1-2 additional project leads will be responsible for coordinating and delivering key components of a student’s program structure, like weekly one-on-ones and study groups, and act as their go-to technical resource as they work through the program. You’ll work with fellow Project Leads and Head of Programming to develop and deliver training material, troubleshoot project issues, build community within our student body, and overall create productive, inspired, employable practitioners of a technical craft. To learn more about our program journey, please review this document.

Note: This is a volunteer opportunity.

You will

Work directly with students as one of their dedicated Project Leads for the program:

Be responsible for maintaining the cadence of the program: Keep students on track for their given project pace, monitor each individual’s progress, and design and implement learning or service interventions when students fall behind
Hold weekly one-on-ones with students that act as mentoring, motivational, or debugging sessions — whatever that particular student needs that day to keep on track for their goals
Hold open office hours to help students in real-time, and move them forward when they’re stuck
Lead project sprints, helping students scope and execute larger technical projects for a non-profit client
Build community within your student groups by identifying, creating, and implementing connective experiences, like Feelings Friday and Motivational Monday study groups, Slack discussions, and student pairing sessions
Leverage passion as a force for motivation by sharing what you are passionate about with your students and working those topics into lesson plans as appropriate.
Be available, responsive, excited and kind: You’re a teacher who holds students to high standards, puts people above process, and creates the kind of learning environment that stretches people beyond what they thought they could achieve

Collaborate thoughtfully and impactfully with colleagues: