Internship Opportunity – React Tutor Intern at NavGurukul

About NavGurukul:

NavGurukul is a not-for-profit founded in 2016 and is on a mission to create access to aspirational careers for students from marginalized communities. We are committed to working on profound transformation for our students so they can hold the same jobs and live the life of similar possibilities as people from the top of the pyramid assume. We imagine an equitable higher education alternative where students learn the right skills, mindsets, and the ability to learn on their own to thrive in the world.

What we do:

NavGurukul’s flagship Residential program works with learners from underserved communities to help them become programmers and gives them a guaranteed job once they finish the program. Currently, we are training 1000+ students in our fully funded seven residential centers across various states in India. Six of our seven campuses have only girl students. The focus on gender is a conscious choice, as inclusion is one of the core principles guiding our choices and focus areas. 

The residential program is open for students who have finished just 10th grade and are 17 years of age. We are expanding our offering to digital careers other than programming, such as design and management. 

So far, we have placed around 500+ students with software jobs in the tech industry with various IT giants and product startups. Our campuses are self-governed spaces that the students manage through elected student bodies. The learning on NavGurukul campuses is guided by self-paced pedagogy with a strong focus on peer learning.

Besides the Residential program, we have two more programs: Meraki and Code India Fellowship. Through Meraki, we work with students (and teachers) from government schools and ITIs through an online offering to help students learn basic English, touch typing, and programming. Code India Fellowship works with young freshers from India’s top colleges to transform learning outcomes in government high schools and ITIs and ensure the employability of students graduating from these programs. 

About the role:

We are seeking a React Tutor with at least one year of experience to join our team at NavGurukul. In this role, you will be responsible for teaching React to students remotely and making them ready to work in production in 1.5 months with our provided curriculum, assignments, hackathons, and projects. 

• Understanding and contributing to our curriculum and developing 
• Collaborate with the students to teach them React js from basics of HTML, CSS, and Javascript to advance level
• Identifying the right tools and processes needed to support every student to learn and grow with their frontend development career
• Tracking and monitoring the progress of every student in the program
• Working closely with other team members for mentoring the students to make them production ready.
• Everything else that is necessary to enhance students’ learning outcomes
• Assess student progress and provide regular feedback
• Provide one-on-one and group instruction to students
• Reviewing and giving feedback to students PR for further teachings. 

Apply if you have: 

• Experience working / teaching React for at least a year.
• Ability to create engaging and effective lesson plans.
• Leadership, time management, team management, facilitation, and organizational skills
• Alignment with NavGurukul’s vision
• Deep empathy toward learners  
• Problem-solving, helping, patient and goal-oriented nature.
• The capability of interacting effectively and building good relationships with relevant stakeholders
• Proficiency with online collaboration and communication tools.

Location:

This role would be remote, and you can work from anywhere, but ideally, you stay close to one of the NavGurukul campuses to be able to visit enough to understand the ground realities well. At the beginning of your engagement with NavGurukul, we would prefer you to work from one of our campuses for at least three months to have an immersive experience and build a thorough understanding of how things work on our campuses. You may also be required to travel to various campuses and stay there for a few weeks a few times a year, but we can discuss what may work best for you. 

Compensation & Culture:

NavGurukul salaries are at par with most not-for-profits in the country. For this role, the salary bracket is 10 – 15 thousand per month.  

At NavGurukul, we only do work that we genuinely believe to be impactful and derive much personal meaning and joy from it. We are also committed to creating an environment of work that is healthy, transparent, and joyful and enables growth and change, both personally and professionally. We have an open, ongoing, non-hierarchical dialogue to ensure the same, and you will be welcome to contribute to it when you are a part of the NavGurukul team.

We are an inclusive and diverse organization and encourage qualified individuals, irrespective of their religion, caste, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, or any other dimension of identity, to apply.