IT Mentor Team Lead (full-time, Vienna)

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Our Company 

Codecool is a growing network of next-gen coding schools and a digital talent hub in Central Europe. Codecool is present in many European countries (eg. Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Austria) and we just became the biggest teaching and learning hub for digital skills in the region by merging with Software Development Academy. So far, we changed the lives of 2000+ students through coding by providing them with professional courses and career opportunities.

Our mission

Our mission is to reinvent tech education and close the ever-growing digital talent gap of companies by providing future-proof careers for ambitious people. We at Codecool want to revolutionize the way people and organizations learn, grow, and connect in our tech-driven world through lifelong learning, career planning, and employee management.

Your role

Change lives through coding. Become a mentor at Codecool, and help us launch hundreds of young people’s successful tech careers. 

We are currently looking for a Mentor Team Lead working from Vienna. In this position, you would be responsible for a team of 5-10 mentors located at the Codecool Campus in Vienna. You will work closely with the local country manager, other mentors from all our locations, team members, and external partners.

Your tasks include

• Doing regular 1on1 sessions with the members of the teams.

• Participating in setting up the quarterly team and personal level targets and driving execution. Driving personal development among team members.

• Assessing individual performance.

• Working every day to provide the best possible care for students while conserving resources.

• Helping mentors with the optimal deployment planning for the different modules to serve students’ needs, deciding on her own when needed.

• Taking part in the hiring process, and guiding the internal recruiters about possible needs.

• Understanding the Codecool-method entirely and ensuring that the team complies with the Codecool-method.

• Keeping contact with the Codecool method team, asking their opinion on methodological questions, and keeping them up-to-date with different education-related experiments.

• Keeping contact with the mentor team leads of other Codecool locations, driving information flow between these locations.

• Tracking and ensuring student inflow and outflow and possible churn. Involving relevant fields (recruitment, sales) when needed.

• Working closely with the sales team: to help them find the best matching candidates for our customers by finding out new possible branches, allocating resources to work out the relevant curriculum, and operating it.

• Working closely with the Country Manager, responsible for local education-related issues.

• Creating reports in educational related fields.

• Handling contract-related questions, involving the Country Manager if needed.

Our ideal candidate

• ✔️Has either solid tech background in programming with at least 1 of the below programming languages or platforms: Java, C#, Javascript, React 

• ✔️and/or 2-5 years of experience as a team leader in the Tech / IT industry with teaching or coaching experience.

• ✔️speaks fluent English and German

• ✔️believes in practice-oriented, project-based learning 

• ✔️understands the difference between teaching and mentoring

• ✔️is positive and patient

• ✔️loves to learn and grow

• ✔️can be new to mentoring: no previous teaching experience is required

Why work with us?

• 💫We offer an awesome atmosphere. Our offices are somewhere between a tech start-up and a university hallway, full of budding coding superstars.

• 💫We have a cool office space full of friendly colleagues, all sharing the same values and attitude toward work.

• 💫We work hard & play hard: we work four days every second week

• 💫You can think and work together with carefully selected top tech professionals from all over the world.

• 💫You can share your hard-earned knowledge and be part of the IT education of the future. 

• 💫You can work on your professional and management skills while mentoring others.

• 💫You can get a name in the business scene by shaping and contributing to sourcing challenges for leading tech companies.

• 💫Your ideas are welcome. We are a flat organization - if you have an idea and the motivation to make it happen, there is no bureaucracy to stop you, you can make it happen.

• 💫You will get a full-time contract with a motivating compensation package. You will earn a tech industry-level salary for helping others to start their tech careers. 

Information provided by the company by the Equal Treatment Act: The minimum wage for the position as an IT Mentor Team Lead is EUR 5,000.00 gross per month on the basis of full-time employment, depending on qualifications and experience. There is a willingness to overpay.

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