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ABOUT US

HyperionDev 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 work with top universities such as 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 recognised as one of the top education technology scaleups in the world and gained the financial backing of Meta (previously Facebook) which recognised us as  the most socially impactful startup operating in Africa, where we initially started our work.

We are dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap and we achieve this by integrating tech education with human mentorship and expert code review powered by a workforce in Southern Africa, which lowers the cost of an accessible education in technology. This model has been successful, allowing us to reach millions of learners a year from over 60 countries. We have also partnered with government bodies such as the UK's Department for Education who provide scholarships for students to study on our bootcamps and gain employment at companies such as AstraZeneca and the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).

We're backed by nearly 2000 investors, having raised the largest crowdfunding round of funding for an edtech company in history. As a primarily bootstrapped, profitable, and scale up tech business join us as we play our part in making the world a more stable, safer, and fair place.

ABOUT THE ROLE 

The Coaching Team is part of the Education Operations Division sitting in the Career Services department at HyperionDev which focuses on “successful execution of our mission to provide high quality, affordable online coding education internationally”.

As the Career Coach at HyperionDev you will be working various timezones (after hour shifts) in the Career Services team to ensure that all our graduates are ready to be placed into tech careers after completing one of our coding bootcamps. 

The Coaching team is responsible for providing high quality mentorship, workshops and high quality review/feedback on tasks submitted on our bootcamps. The broad objectives for the Coaching team are: 

• To improve student progress and graduation rates
• To support learners getting an interview for a role
• To support learners in landing an employment outcome 
• To improve the quality of mentorship and coaching for career progression and achieving their career milestones

Career coaching is when a coach and a HyperionDev learner/graduate work one-on-one to help reach career goals and full potential. Career coaches help with career planning, career changes, career advice, and other career decisions.

A career coach session will be unique and doesn’t have a one-size-fits-all job description, because a person’s career path is different and requires your personalised support. Therefore, it is important for this candidate to hold a strong proactive approach to problem solving.

A career coach helps our learners find the job they love, whether it is to  upskill or re-skill within their organisation or carving out an entirely new career path that aligns with the purpose of their work. 

Key subjects a career coach can assist with: 

• Navigate career transitions 
• Assist those wanting to explore the self-employment route
• Provide career advice
• Help job seekers with job interview skills (including practising mock interviews) 
• Assist with career planning
• Help to set career goals and long-term professional goals 
• Explore new career options and opportunities 
• Advise on how to build your personal brand and reviewing of key profiles (CV, LinkedIn, Github)
• Find work-life balance by setting boundaries and examining priorities 
• Assist in the job search process 
• Find footing in a new role or new job 
• Explore ways to upskill or re skill in a current job 
• Identify new strategies to enhance career development 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Delivery of career development learning and advisory services to ensure that graduates are technically ready and prepared to enter the job market. 
• Offering 1:1 consultations and workshops with students to optimise their CV, LinkedIn profiles, GitHub portfolios (building their personal brand, supporting in their job search and interview preparation. 
• Facilitate mock interviews with graduates to practise their interview skills.
• Provide high quality review/feedback on tasks submitted on our bootcamp dashboards related to Career Services.
• Providing access to bespoke career development resources that support graduates in honing their professional profiles and portfolios.
• Encourage students to create side-projects to fill the non-experience barrier.
• Actively driving and tracking of graduate outcomes and milestones
• Sourcing, updating and sending out weekly Jobs boards to all regions
• Regularly interact with learners using available communication platforms. 
• Assist with interview scheduling and candidate availability through the hiring companies’ recruitment process.
• Providing excellent up to date record keeping using the data platforms that are available for student information updates
• Manage our applicant talent leads database accurately and efficiently to ensure a healthy pipeline and promotion of talent profiles to our employer partners and for vacant roles.
• Promoting of job opportunities to unemployed students
• Support and drive effective marketing initiatives for placing our graduates, provide feedback on lead quality and engagement ratio, and assist with the market segmentation and targeting strategy by providing feedback on most likely to convert hiring company profiles.

REQUIREMENTS

Minimum

• At least 2+ years of interviewing experience in an agency or inhouse recruitment, or HR role with talent or recruitment responsibilities.
• At least 2+ years recent and relevant experience in Careers-related Advising, coaching and mentorship in Higher Education or in a comparable role advising graduates seeking formal employment (HR Talent-role)
• Experience working under pressure with strict targets showing initiative and the ability to multi-task
• Understanding of the technical recruitment market 
• Outstanding reporting skills and experience with CRMs
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Skilled in working with virtual tools for effective education and communication purposes.
• Fast learner, meticulous attention to detail and experience working with data and delivering reports.
• Client relationship and candidate management skills
• Proven computer literacy and comfort with creating and working on G-suite applications and project management tools.
• Development, planning, facilitation and hosting of events
• Experience in skills development workshops
• Ability to work after hour shifts as required by the career coaching schedule. This is to line up with international student schedules.

Preferred 

• A relevant tertiary qualification would be preferred 
• Prior tech startup experience in a high-growth and ambitious environment
• At least 1 year experience with email automation and campaign outreach
• Experience with lead generation and market research for business development
• Interest / experience in the coding education and ed-tech space
• Understanding of International technical recruitment environments

BENEFITS

Hybrid work: We are a hybrid work organisation offering flexibility on your schedule. Remote working options are available for candidates not in proximity of a HyperionDev Campus

Learn new tech skills: We offer our employees the opportunity to enrol part-time in our Coding Bootcamps.

Join the heart of tech in Africa, Europe and the US: You'll work with the best of the best and rub shoulders with the world leaders in edtech, developer education, and developer assessments. Join one of the most ambitious and highest performing tech companies in the space, with a management team that draws their former experience from top tech companies.

Life-changing work: Solve real problems that make education and tech careers accessible to those who need it most: you're allowed to brag about it.

OUR VALUES

We're a people-forward company with a purpose that underlines everything we do. We're obsessed with the potential in people and challenge them to do their best work. We embrace a culture of growth and learning to deliver on our vision and ours is a relentless quest for improvement.