Job Opportunity for Technical Trainer (Java) at TNS India Foundation in Mumbai

Role : Technical Trainer

Location : Mumbai/Bangalore/Chennai/ Puducherry/Kanchipuram/Nasik/Akola/ Hyderabad/Ahmedabad.

About TNS India Foundation

TNS India Foundation (TNSIF) is a non-profit development organization with over 10 years of experience in implementing robust, effective and, demand-driven programs working towards national economic reconstruction, with a special focus on women. By connecting capable individuals to transformative opportunities, we have been able to create an enduring impact for them, their families and, communities. More information can be found at www.tnsindiafoundation.org.

Through our program design we work to identify, skill and empower underprivileged youth (age 18- 25, college dropout/college going/recent graduates) through a combination of skills training, career counselling, multi stakeholder engagements and placements. The program embeds itself in the ecosystem and community of the youth which include existing education providers, parents and peers and works to create systemic level change and youth empowerment. The program has worked with over 7000 students in Mumbai in the last four years and is at an exciting stage in its growth. We are actively looking to build on the transformative change we have catalysed on the ground and expanding this to empower more young people across Mumbai and now in Bangalore too. The program’s success hinges on – young people passionate about other young people, thinking and executing ground-level initiatives that have a measurable impact on youth employability issues, a data-driven yet empathetic approach to managing the dynamic ecosystem and lastly a zeal to take good ideas to scale.

The Youth Employability Program is expanding to encompass sector-specific training in response to overwhelming industry demand for skilling youth in new age entry-level jobs in domains covering (A) Advanced Software Development (coding/programming) and (B) Data Science & Analytics. The sector specific training will be part of our Campus to Technical Careers (C2TC) program. The program will work with underprivileged youth from IT/Science and Computer Programming backgrounds to help them get employed in either traditional software development (enterprise and/or mobile) or data science.

This program is for you, if you are enthusiastic, talented and looking to commit your energy towards changing the course of youth employability issues in India.

Responsibilities:

Program Specialists in Technical Training and Curriculum development will:

· Design and update the technical curriculum according to employer requirements for the C2TC program.

· Work with underprivileged youth full time through providing extensive and high quality, focused technical training.

· Mobilise colleges for outreach to maximum youth to offer the employability skills program

· Maintain program operations in the college premises and at the digital academy which are part of the program

· Maintain, update and share databases for the training batches

· Collaborate effectively and efficiently with the team to achieve organisational goals

· Provide innovations and improvisations to build a strong and industry based curriculum for our students.

We encourage a cooperative work culture and welcome anyone willing to go the extra-mile for their work!

Skills & Experience:

This role calls for an intrinsically motivated and passionate individual, looking to make a career in development work or technical training and development. Training students will be a primary responsibility and based on interest and abilities, you will be able to contribute to other programmatic areas.

Essential skills include –

– Masters’ degree in IT/Computer Science/BCA or B.Tech/BE in IT background or similar backgrounds with keen interest in teaching / training

– 2-6 years of work experience in either (a) Training/L&D roles with the private-sector/ student engagement (including internships and volunteer work), or (b) experience in core technical/programming/development work at technology (IT/software/tech start-ups) and/or analytics firms looking to switch to a training role

– Certified in advanced programming or data sciences, with demonstrable expertise in at least two or more of the following groups of technologies:

i. C++, Java, SDLC (both traditional/waterfall model, and agile), SQL

ii. JavaScript, AngularJS, NodeJS, ExpressJS

iii. Python, Django, MongoDB (or equivalent, noSQL database)

iv. R, SAS, Statistics, Data Visualization with Tableau/QlikView with at least one end-to-end implementation experience

v. Experience with Big Data technologies (HDFS, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, etc), or building ML / AI models using relevant technologies and tools (e.g., TensorFlow, Scikit, SciPy, MatplotLib, and others)

– Willingness to live in and travel across city

– Ability to deliver within tight deadlines

– Ability to contribute and engage with multiple stakeholders

– An openness to learning and feedback

– Keen to work in challenging situations

– Demonstrated ability to work in a diverse team

– Excellent written and oral communication skills

Preferred skills include

– Conversational familiarity with local language would be preferred, but not a strict requirement

– High-performers and individuals with an enterprising streak.

Applications are to be sent to bpathare@tnsif.org alongwith the CV.