Fall 2025 Teaching Assistant Remote

Work set-up: 
Full Remote
Contract: 
Experience: 
Entry-level / graduate
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Offer summary

Qualifications:

Experience working with youth in educational settings., Strong communication skills, both written and verbal., Passion for supporting youth and values aligned with social justice., Self-motivated with the ability to work independently..

Key responsibilities:

  • Promote a supportive classroom community and foster collaboration.
  • Track student progress and support their development.
  • Lead community-building activities and manage classroom behavior.
  • Communicate course updates and student progress to students, families, and staff.

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Mission Bit Non-profit Organization - Charity SME https://www.missionbit.org/
11 - 50 Employees
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Job description

About Mission Bit

Mission Bit is a San Franciscobased nonprofit that inspires youth of color to explore the world of STEM with projectbased computer science education that embraces their identities. We offer a variety of handson STEM education programs, including biweekly, semesterlong introductory coding courses.

The role

As a Teaching Assistant for our Intro to Game Design class, you’ll promote a welcoming and supportive class community, foster productive collaboration, track student progress, and help students realize their potential.

We’re proud to provide training to all instructional staff to prepare them to teach, along with ongoing support throughout the semester!

If you have a passion for community, social justice, and coding, and if you want to uplift Bay Area youth and bridge the tech divide, then this might be the opportunity for you! Bilingual candidates are strongly encouraged to apply (especially those who speak Spanish).

This is a seasonal, semesterbased, remote role based in San Francisco, CA, from August 21 to December 11, 2025, with 6+ hours per week.

Schedule

Instructor Training

  • Live virtual training: September 2 3, 2025, 4:00 PM 6:00 PM
    • In addition to the live training session(s), staff are required to complete ~8 hours of selfpaced training. All staff are required to complete and attend the trainings
      • Inperson instructors only: 1hour classroom site visit (date and time TBD, more details to come)
        • Class Dates

          • September 8, 2025 December 5, 2025
          • Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:50 PM 7:10 PM
            • Weekly Meetings

              • 45minute weekly meetings with the instructional team on Mondays, 2:00 PM 2:45 PM over Zoom
                • Additional dates:

                  • Demo Day: December 5, 2025 in San Francisco
                  • Endofsemester meeting: 30 minutes between December 8 11, 2025
                    • Hours

                      • 6 + hours per week
                        • Location

                          • remote
                            • What you’ll be doing:

                              70% Community building, classroom management, and student support

                              • Create an inclusive and communitybased classroom culture surrounding the Mission Bit core values of social justice, community, accountability, smart risks, and love
                              • Plan and lead communitybuilding games and activities
                              • Foster individual and meaningful relationships with students
                              • Promote positive, productive collaboration between students
                              • Ensure students receive the support they need throughout the course to effectively and confidently showcase a capstone project at our Demo Day
                              • Effectively manage classroom behavior to foster a productive learning environment for all students
                              • Lead class in the event the lead instructor is out
                                • 20% Professional collaboration

                                  • Attend weekly staff meetings (to be determined at the start of the semester).
                                  • Communicate and collaborate with Lead Instructor and other instructional staff
                                    • 10% Communication

                                      • Communicate course progress to students and their families
                                      • Communicate student progress and success throughout the course to the Program Staff so we can collectively support students’ learning
                                        • Requirements

                                          We’d love to hear from you if you…

                                          • Have experience working with youth, especially in an educational setting
                                          • Have values aligned with Mission Bit and a passion for supporting youth
                                          • Have excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable and compelling in public speaking situations
                                          • Have experience working with a diverse group of individuals
                                          • Are selfstarting with the ability to effectively work autonomously with little oversight
                                            • It’s not required, but it’s a nice bonus if you…

                                              • Have experience in with Game DesignUnityC# or in relevant coding languages andor software (this may include college, bootcamps, internships, or workforce experience)
                                              • Have experience in projectbased learning, assetbased teaching, andor culturally relevant teaching
                                              • Are bilingual in Spanish, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Tagalog, or Samoan
                                                • Benefits

                                                  • Accrued sick timeoff
                                                    • Pay

                                                      $23.00 hour

                                                      Mission Bit is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, veteran or military status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Experience

Level of experience: Entry-level / graduate
Industry :
Non-profit Organization - Charity
Spoken language(s):
English
Check out the description to know which languages are mandatory.

Other Skills

  • Communication
  • Public Speaking

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